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Possibly Modan's best work. First of all, it's so Israeli in such a heart-warming way. It deals with Israeli culture in a gentle, touching, way. Secondly, the characters are realistic but not in a crude way. And lastly, Modan's drawings are as good as usual.
It's a unique piece of work. In an hour of reading you can get a very special experience.

While the drawings were nice and some of the stories amusing, I felt a hard disdain for Guy himself. His obnoxiousness did not allow this book to take off like it could have. I am scared of what I might find in his much acclaimed "Jerusalem".

Took me a a little less then two hours to finish, and as usaul with these graphic novels, it could be read from front to back in much less. Anyway, I feel Modan's artwork is unique and innovative. Her style is in constant vector of progression. Her choice of colors is especially striking. Anyway, what really impressed me in this work was the writing. It's playful. The story is moving, fun and even thought provoking in some parts. Modan has really grown as an artist. Its delightful to see.

Took it from the library because the kind librarian advised me to (after he heard what my favorite books are). I thought it was beautiful reflection on fatherhood and life. Just what I needed.

The newer English translation is a hundred times better then the old, and is as good as the Hebrew translation. To think that such a psychological masterpiece was translated to the English-speaking crowd through its mediocre French translation is to recognize that crime in literary terms has been done.

One of the greatest books I have ever read in my entire life.

Capitalism in its rawest, most uninhibited form, is manifested in the Italian Mafia. This idea drives Saviano's brave memoir. The Cammora is a system of legal and illegal organizations with no regard for anything other then complete and utter control. Everything standing in its path is destroyed: Ethics, sensitivities, lives and, really, humanity itself. All is reduced to money and power. What is present in the our globe today, and is the bane of our collective existence - Capitalism - is merely a large scale model of the crime family. Saviano's writing is harsh. Unforgiving. Occasionally personal and brutal. Highly recommended book.

I, a non-zionist anarchist Israeli, read this book in English because Mieville, a marxist-leninist Brit, refuses to let his books be translated to Hebrew. I found this to be a rather silly affair, but, cutting to the crux of the matter: Embassytown is a story about colonialism, imperialism and early modern day capitalism, cleverly disguised as a story about two-mouthed, experts in bio-engineering and "bio-rigging", well - aliens. While Mieville's writing is lacking, in my opinion, a good amount of emotional force and is, unfortunely, tiring at times, his observations on the connection between socio-political oppression and the usage of language, which form the main axis around which the entire narrative is composed around, are illuminating and extremely valuable. To sum things up, this is a good educational and exciting book.

This book was recommended to me by my father, who said it was a book filled to the brim with knowledge about the origins of Christianity. So it wasn't presented to me as something really exciting, but I decided to give it a go. When I picked it up, I found a very immersive book that truly lets you into the soul of a Coptic monk in the times of great theological turmoil. Super unique.

I was, and still am, extremely ambivalent about this piece of literature. I'll list its minuses first.
'Children of Time' is a book written like an anecdote out of Max Fisher's Capitalist Realism. Tchaikovsky view of humans is that we're living on - to borrow Murray Bookchin's terminology - a 'stingy' planet (or rather, a stingy universe!), that we're all naturely extremely destructive, sheeple fighting each other mindlessly, and that humanity will only be saved by benevolent genius nerds (aka tech daddies). It's really sci-fi that's reflective of current mainstream ideology. It doesn't help us imagine any new future. But - that is not to say this book has no merits. It's a very well-written book. It's fun to read. It has tons of suspence, and it's hard to lay down. I enjoyed it, but I didn't enjoy enjoying it. In conclusion: decent book, fun, but also depressing and annoying.

It's written rather nicely, kind of like a modern-day Kerouac (which the author references here and there) with stories about hobo-life, sleeping in squats, having adventures, dumpster-diving etc., but it's so incredibly repetitive and self-indulgent that you get tired of it very quickly.

I remember myself reading this and asking myself: Is this an actual story or a collection of asimov-inspired dad jokes?

Bey's thoughts on Anarchism are quite inspiring but the book reads (IMHO) like a pedo manifesto when he clumsily aligns his idea of liberty with the freedom to rape underage boys, which was for me very hard to stomach (Bey was a prominent member of the proud pedophile organization NAMBLA, so none of this is the workings of my imagination). To sum it up - better to read anarcho-feminists then this shit.