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Victor Pineiro _ictor_ineiro — amazingly acute in its description of a failing marriage and a failed life, but ultimately that makes really really painful to read

Kamilah Evans kamilahevans — Thought I would open this one up again before I watch the movie. Interesting to think about how I pictured the stone statues as a child and now as an adult.

Mike Peck _ntipodesnzl — Just when I thought I’d caught up with everything DMZ, the comic book gods surprise me. While standing in front of and perusing the shelves of my local comic book haunt, there -- lo and behold! -- was volume six (a single, lonely copy at that) waiting. Oh, lucky me! This latest trade paperback collects the recent Blood in the Game storyline that weaves together several new plot threads. First there is the imminent election of the first leader of the DMZ (shades of the recent Iraqi elections post-US invasion) and the rise Parco Delgado, the self-styled populist leader who takes on the establishment that wants a US-friendly puppet put into place. Then along comes the arrival of main character Matty Roth’s mother, a political consultant based in Europe since the outbreak of the Second Civil War. Mix in plenty of violence, mayhem, and political posturing, and this story-arc marks yet another milestone in Vertigo’s greatest near future dystopian fantasy to date. Like a fine wine, this series just gets better and better with age.

Katie Bellinder katiebellinder — In the novel Northanger Abbey Jane Austen satirizes the popular gothic novel of the Nineteenth Century to make fun of the manner in which the gothic novels such as The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe engaged the emotional and sexual parts of the human psyche. Austen believed that literature should stimulate the intellectual region of the brain. Gothic literature was composed of dark stories in which there were mysterious happenings and horrible but sensational secrets were exposed. Catherine Morland, the young protagonist of Northanger Abbey, is an avid reader of gothic novels, but she is oblivious to the dark intentions of the real people around her.Catherine’s innocence is contrasted against the covert agendas of new friends and acquaintances.

Michel Schmidt janenichso — Although normally I adore Kay's mode of historical fantasy, and though the Anglo-Saxon setting seemed like it would be a natural winner, something about this book made it fall flat for me. The characters failed to engage me the way Kay's characters normally do, and the storytelling lacked the richness of his previous books.