Review: As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Charming, and exactly what you would expect.



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Review: Watchmen

Watchmen by Alan Moore

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



I'm just plain bad at reading graphic novels (it's hard for me to see the text and the illustration at the same time), which hinders my enjoyment. I liked it all right, but I thought a lot of the parallelism was heavy-handed, and there are no likable characters. I like clarity and resolution in my fiction, so this just wasn't really for me.

On the pro- side: I'm told it's historically important as a comic book/graphic novel, and it did hold my attention. I wanted to know what would happen; but then when I did, I didn't care for what happened.

Also, preschoolers are pretty intrigued by books with naked blue guys in them.



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Miss Mason Regrets

Me: We're not going to check that one out.
Her: Why?
Me: It's twaddle.
Her: I like twaddle.