Comments on: The 10 Best Books I read in 2008 https://iwilldare.com/2008/12/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2008/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: laurie https://iwilldare.com/2008/12/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2008/#comment-22677 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:53:02 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7841#comment-22677 thanks for the list! I just went to the library web site and placed a bunch of them on hold!

]]> By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2008/12/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2008/#comment-22673 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:03:46 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7841#comment-22673 it’s a festivus miracle.

]]> By: NBFB https://iwilldare.com/2008/12/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2008/#comment-22671 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:04:01 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7841#comment-22671 There’s a #5?!?!?!?!!!!!

]]> By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2008/12/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2008/#comment-22667 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:27:16 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7841#comment-22667 Bill, I am curious about why you thought Persepolis was so terrible. I can see (though I disagree) how one would not think it a literary piece of art, however does that instantly make it terrible?

I don’t think of graphic novels as a glorified comic books. Comic books are a genre of storytelling that generally sticks pretty close to the conventions that define that genre (and which is why I tend to stay away from most genre-fiction).

Persepolis, to me, presents a story in a new and original way. Satrapi probably could have written a traditional memoir. Her art adds to her story and conveys information in a way that words could not have. The whole picture is worth 1000 words and all that.

]]> By: Bill Roehl https://iwilldare.com/2008/12/the-10-best-books-i-read-in-2008/#comment-22664 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:09:42 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=7841#comment-22664 I don’t remember if I read Persepolis in 2007 or 2008 (I believe it was 2007) but it was absolutely terrible. The fact that it has been hailed, especially by Century College as they used it for their “Common Book”, as some sort of literary masterpiece is nothing short of laughable. I’m sorry but graphic novels, as mainstream as they might have become, are not literary anything — they’re a glorified comic book.

Out of the 90+ books I have read this year, I put Persepolis in line with A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah (which I definitely read in 2008 and even saw Beah give a speech in Minneapolis related to the book) — at the bottom of my list.

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