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The Wicked + The Divine Vol. 1
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bookshelves: graphic-novels, american-21st-c, fiction, fantasy
Jan 04, 2018
bookshelves: graphic-novels, american-21st-c, fiction, fantasy
Interesting story, but more for millennials than old farts like perhaps. Some of the ideas are good, but the jumps in the story are abrupt and the names of the gods don’t really make a lot of sense with respect to their stories (technically, Lucifer was an angel, not a god for one example). I’ll give Vol 2 a shot but I remain skeptical.
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November 19, 2016
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November 19, 2016
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November 21, 2016
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November 21, 2016
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January 4, 2018
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January 4, 2018
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January 4, 2018
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fantasy
January 4, 2018
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Thanks Bryan. So, you mean there were musical references in TW+TD? Wow, I totally missed that. Pop or EuroVision or Dancing with the Stars references perhaps? If so, would have missed them at any point of my life probably. But, that is interesting to know. I guess it would be hard for Millenials to appreciate, say, Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by the same reasoning? I mean there are no explicit song references in Zen, but the way the narrator speaks, the sensitivies of Chris, the whole atmosphere of the book is so Grateful Dead, Steppenwolf, CSN&Y that they probably would be as mystified as I was by TW+TD.
That's a great example, and yes. It's a bit like explaining a joke. You can trace the references, but will lose the thing's force.
So the music in this book and the other - you and I are past that point. We'd have to think about the tunes that rocked us, back in the day, and translate.