Joe Ollmann
Auteur de Mid-Life
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Joe Ollmann
Œuvres de Joe Ollmann
Asylum 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (2015) — Contributeur — 140 exemplaires
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- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Mid-Life par Joe Ollmann
A pretty good character study of a (very) flawed man. I enjoy Ollmann's depictions of people, and would definitely read more.
Things to avoid doing in books:
1) Start with an introduction where you detail how the story I'm about to read is (accidentally) not particularly original.
2) Reveal the book I'm reading is the book a character in the book is writing.
3) Have a character in the book tell the author character how to edit and improve the book he is writing but don't actually include those edits and improvements in the book you have written for him.
4) Ironically include this quote, "Do you think -- in the present climate -- that anyone wants to listen to a rich, old white man complaining about an older, richer white man?"
5) Misspell Tony Bennett's name.… (plus d'informations)
1) Start with an introduction where you detail how the story I'm about to read is (accidentally) not particularly original.
2) Reveal the book I'm reading is the book a character in the book is writing.
3) Have a character in the book tell the author character how to edit and improve the book he is writing but don't actually include those edits and improvements in the book you have written for him.
4) Ironically include this quote, "Do you think -- in the present climate -- that anyone wants to listen to a rich, old white man complaining about an older, richer white man?"
5) Misspell Tony Bennett's name.… (plus d'informations)
Well, reading nearly three hundred pages of a drunken, misogynistic jackass proved to be a real slog. At one point I was holding out hope that this was a hoax biography, that this was all just made up, but no the jerk really existed. This book seems like one part of a concerted effort to revive interest in Seabrook and his writing, but it utterly fails for me and leaves me kind of hoping it fails for everyone else too. Some people are better left forgotten.
A man in his forties suffers sleep-deprivation and tries to resist the urge to throw his second marriage away. He almost fails. The narrator seems to hate himself and is a hard person to like. There is also the story of an up and coming childrens' performer who grapples with 'selling out', looking for 'Mr Right'. Each is lost in their own bubble, and that's the comic.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 206
- Popularité
- #107,332
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 1