A review by sarahpisa
The Beats: A Graphic History, by Paul M. Buhle

3.0

This one was okay. I enjoyed learning a bit more about the story behind the names that made this movement, authors, poets, artists of all kinds. Each story is designed and told differently, which is one of the things I didn't like actually, the change in pace, in perspective, in graphics. I would have preferred more consistency. In the end, I can put bits and pieces together to sort of get the history, but nothing coherent.

They tried to put so much in such a short volume, the authors sometimes go from one event to the other, living the threading to the reader. Not that I am a lazy reader, but if the beat movement is a topic you have no knowledge of, as I did, you'll find it hard to follow.