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A review by krivas91
Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded by Jim Ottaviani
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
2.75
I think I understood like 20% of this book….
The math and computing stuff was definitely hard for a layman to follow, but at times the storytelling structure of this novel was, too. Sometimes we got Turing’s voice in the colored speech/narration bubbles, sometimes it was the person from his life that was being interviewed…and it’s never stated if these were actual interview excerpts or imagined conversations with such people, and the people often are not introduced at all before they start talking. Some contextual note before the panels started would have been appreciated, as it was just a lot to puzzle out in addition to trying to understand the actual content of the novel.
The math and computing stuff was definitely hard for a layman to follow, but at times the storytelling structure of this novel was, too. Sometimes we got Turing’s voice in the colored speech/narration bubbles, sometimes it was the person from his life that was being interviewed…and it’s never stated if these were actual interview excerpts or imagined conversations with such people, and the people often are not introduced at all before they start talking. Some contextual note before the panels started would have been appreciated, as it was just a lot to puzzle out in addition to trying to understand the actual content of the novel.