Customer Comments

Apart from being hilarious-to-the-maximum, the artwork is as beautiful as golden diamonds shining, gleaming and sparkling like stars amongst dozens and dozens of rainbows. These ideas don't go stale. These comics don't disappoint. These colors don't run.

Graphic novels or comics are rarely this thought-provoking. Spiegelman takes an incredibly dark time in our World's history and manages to, as he puts it, "express the unexpressable". I haven't read this in years yet I recall it like I read it last week. Unforgettable and brilliant.

This movie is grand. I know folks who walked out of the theater. I also know others who loved it to no end. I fall more towards the latter, but not quite as extreme. Being a large Scorsese fan, I had high hopes for this one, since it seemed a return to what he does best: crime in the city. And boy, is it ever. Good Cop, bad cop, undercover cop, crooked cop, head cop, dead cop... It's about police and the mob, basically. All in all, The Departed stands as one completely engaging drama, with some amazing acting and cinematography. Martin Scorsese is totally cool in my book. Or DVD.

This won't be winning the Newbery Medal. Raw yet poetic, this book paints both a grim and horribly touching view of addicts and prostitutes. The author was both. It's sad and painful and of course, amazing to read.

Mathematical books are radical, look! This little gem is easy to read, understand and enjoy even (and especially) for the non-math-loving sort. It concerns a real square (literally) living in a 2-D world. That's it. It's a tour of Flatland. And once you pick up this slender little book, you won't put it down until you've taken the tour, unless you got something really important to do like outrun flaming wolves. It's a buck-fifty. You have no excuse not to buy it.

Japanese people dress so much better than us. Look at this book, or Fruits (also by Aoki), and you will most likely agree with my opening statement. And if not "better", you must admit they have more fun with style than most of America even dreamed possible. The book(s) contain a multitude of vibrantly beautiful full-body, street-scene mugshots of Tokyo's youth in all their cartoony and colorful glory. Seriously, it will make you feel both overwhelmed, entertained and stylisticly bland. And who doesn't want to feel that?

Motorcycle gangs. The Japanese Porn Industry. The Yakuza (Japanese mafia). Teenage larceny. Teenage drug use. Teenagers with a myriad of problems. Japan. Do any of these things sound interesting to you? All of them? Whatever your answer, I'm pretty sure this book will entertain and interest you. It deals with these (and much, much more) in an engrossing compilation of short stories about modern-day (1990's at least) Japan. Remember, America isn't the only country with crazed, rebel youth. Read all about it.

This film is grand. Don't make the foolish mistake of thinking you can't enjoy and love this film if you're a straight dude. It's just about as tragically romantic as a story can get and it's beautiful through and through. If you don't get the widescreen version, you are cheating yourself, specifically your eyeballs. The cinematic grandeur must be experienced in full, otherwise your life will be full of regret. Don't live that way.

Do you like the Arthurian Legends? Of course you do. Dumb question. This is a very basic, but outstandingly classic retelling of these myths, tales, historically accurate accounts - whatever you choose to believe. The book's written well enough for the most literary adults, but simple enough for the kids. Your whole family will love it. So if you're looking for the classic story, choose this. It's cheap, small and most importantly: meaty. By the way, in my world, "meaty" is synonymous to "well-written" and "packed with splendor". -NM

If you want to read some Grimm Brothers Fairy Tales, this is the book. The title says it all. Or does it? What it doesn't tell you is that this is the most complete and accurate collection ever published, at least in a widely distributed printing. So there! Expertly made. -NM

Great book. Comprised of 39 interviews with everyday Chinese folk from all walks of life, this collection captures China as a whole, or at least as whole as a book of this sort could. I started reading this one night and couldn't put it down. I ended up falling asleep with it, clutched to my slumbering body. But apparently, sleep was too boring, since I soon awoke to read some more. A quantity of quality, page after page. -NM