A review by narflet
Tall Tales by Tom Sniegoski
4.0
It's been a while since I read any Bone (read them Oct/Nov of last year, 2011 - so almost a year ago), but I'm finally getting around to reading the last things in the Bone series. This volume was good fun. I never really 'got' Bone - I enjoyed it but it always felt like characters from a weekly strip smashed in to a fantasy epic and it never really worked for me. Having since learned that Jeff Smith started drawing the Bone characters and writing stories when he was 9/10 years old, and that the fantasy valley aspect came later in his college years this weird mash-up now makes sense - and also is perhaps the reason why it doesn't work for me. I really loved parts of the series though, particularly the rat creatures - always entertaining. So this volume was rather enjoyable, simply because they were fun stories rather than the epic side of things. Also because it featured a cracking story at the end with the rat creatures and why they cut off their tails (although, sadly, no quiche), and it was nice to have a bit more Bartleby.
This, and Rose, are probably my favourite volumes of the series for similar reasons - this one because it features no epic fantasy aspect, and Rose because it features no Bone creatures. It works better that way for me.
I'll probably read the bits in the handbook, but I'm not bothered enough to track down the 'Quest for the Spark' series. This is, essentially, the end of my Bone reading.
This, and Rose, are probably my favourite volumes of the series for similar reasons - this one because it features no epic fantasy aspect, and Rose because it features no Bone creatures. It works better that way for me.
I'll probably read the bits in the handbook, but I'm not bothered enough to track down the 'Quest for the Spark' series. This is, essentially, the end of my Bone reading.