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  • Splurge for the hardcover. This is an excellent story, but a poorly constructed paperback. The book is quite thick, and the pages longer on their free axis than on their spine. My copy was falling apart by the time I finished my first reading, and my brother had pages falling into his lap when he ... Continue

    Splurge for the hardcover. This is an excellent story, but a poorly constructed paperback. The book is quite thick, and the pages longer on their free axis than on their spine. My copy was falling apart by the time I finished my first reading, and my brother had pages falling into his lap when he borrowed it for the first time. Much like the $0.25 upgrade to onion rings over fries, this $6.00 upgrade to a hardcover is a no-brainer.

    

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This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

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