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A review by devindevindevin
How to Talk to Girls At Parties: The Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman
4.0
Jules bought this for me, as a blind present. I wasn't sure what to expect going in, I thought maybe it would be a short standard fiction tale. I guess I should have known better, with all the creators involved in this. Gaiman doesn't really do normal, does he?
It went places I never would have thought of as an author, and the art work is really fabulous. The use of colors is really impressive, and I love how the backgrounds just dissolve into nothing, as if this is all a fever dream.
The writing does that favorite thing of mine, where even though it's some fantasy world, the main fantastical element is perfectly metaphoric for what it's representing in real life. Women are a galaxy to young men. Some women feel like aliens to young men. And even if none of that's true, that's how it's remembered when looking back at the ferocious love of when you were 15 years old.
It went places I never would have thought of as an author, and the art work is really fabulous. The use of colors is really impressive, and I love how the backgrounds just dissolve into nothing, as if this is all a fever dream.
The writing does that favorite thing of mine, where even though it's some fantasy world, the main fantastical element is perfectly metaphoric for what it's representing in real life. Women are a galaxy to young men. Some women feel like aliens to young men. And even if none of that's true, that's how it's remembered when looking back at the ferocious love of when you were 15 years old.