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A review by anttirask
Cerebus by Dave Sim
5.0
I wrote the longest review in November after I finished reading the book, but managed to delete it. It seems like I was too depressed about what happened to write anything then, so here we are now, in January, to correct the situation.
I will make the review much shorter now, but in a nutshell my thoughts of the first volume of Cerebus were that...
a) I'm glad it took me this long to start reading it (I've known about Cerebus for almost 20 years), because I think I'm getting more out of it now.
b) maybe because it is a fantasy book, it feels very timeless for something that was written in the 70s. Obviously there are some references that I might not know (or know as well) as the people reading this series in the 70s, but there doesn't seem to be that many.
c) because it is an alternative indie series, Dave Sim could do pretty much whatever he wanted and he did, which is a good thing here. Some of the stories are told in such a novel way that they still seem inventive.
I definitely want to continue reading the (whole) series and therefore there will be a chance for me to write about many other things regarding the books, so this will suffice at this time, I think. But if you have been thinking about maybe reading Cerebus at some point, I'd suggest you start reading it already. Definitely worth it!
The next read book (I've actually finished it already, so the review will come out soon) will be part of the Helmet Reading Challenge (Helmet here meaning HELsinki METropolitan area library), in addition to the Goodreads Reading Challenge that I've decided to take part in: http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Events_and_tips/News_flash/The_Helmet_Reading_Challenge_2018. You can participate, too!
I will make the review much shorter now, but in a nutshell my thoughts of the first volume of Cerebus were that...
a) I'm glad it took me this long to start reading it (I've known about Cerebus for almost 20 years), because I think I'm getting more out of it now.
b) maybe because it is a fantasy book, it feels very timeless for something that was written in the 70s. Obviously there are some references that I might not know (or know as well) as the people reading this series in the 70s, but there doesn't seem to be that many.
c) because it is an alternative indie series, Dave Sim could do pretty much whatever he wanted and he did, which is a good thing here. Some of the stories are told in such a novel way that they still seem inventive.
I definitely want to continue reading the (whole) series and therefore there will be a chance for me to write about many other things regarding the books, so this will suffice at this time, I think. But if you have been thinking about maybe reading Cerebus at some point, I'd suggest you start reading it already. Definitely worth it!
The next read book (I've actually finished it already, so the review will come out soon) will be part of the Helmet Reading Challenge (Helmet here meaning HELsinki METropolitan area library), in addition to the Goodreads Reading Challenge that I've decided to take part in: http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/Events_and_tips/News_flash/The_Helmet_Reading_Challenge_2018. You can participate, too!