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A review by dfolivieri
Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands by Michael Chabon
3.0
At it's best, this book is just so witty you won't want to let it out of your hands. The language is just so freaking witty and fun that you only pause to envy this Chabon guy. But the language also carries weight, telling us about the joys of reading while at the same time giving us those joys of reading. At it's worst, reading this book feels like going to a class where you didn't read the book you were assigned. Even at its worst, though, it's never bad.
I recommend you read some of the essays and skip others. Here is my list of how much I liked them, in descending order:
1) Trickster in a Suit of Lights
2) Ragnarok Boy
3) Maps & Legends
4) My Back Pages
5) Diving into the Wreck
6) Kids' Stuff
7) The Recipe for Life
8) Dark Adventure
9) Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes
10) On Daemons & Dust
11) Golems I have Known
12) Landsman of the Lost
13) The Other James
14) Imaginary Homelands
15) Thoughts on the Death of Will Eisner
16) The Killer Hook
I recommend you read some of the essays and skip others. Here is my list of how much I liked them, in descending order:
1) Trickster in a Suit of Lights
2) Ragnarok Boy
3) Maps & Legends
4) My Back Pages
5) Diving into the Wreck
6) Kids' Stuff
7) The Recipe for Life
8) Dark Adventure
9) Fan Fictions: On Sherlock Holmes
10) On Daemons & Dust
11) Golems I have Known
12) Landsman of the Lost
13) The Other James
14) Imaginary Homelands
15) Thoughts on the Death of Will Eisner
16) The Killer Hook