A review by lillanaa
A for Anonymous: How a Mysterious Hacker Collective Transformed the World by David Kushner
4.0
This book was received as an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I wasn't quite sure if this would be something I'd judge or be actually interested in, but it has a sort of charming quality to it. Graphic novels are something that it can be difficult to convey a ton of information, but this doesn't feel lacking by any stretch. It definitely feels closer to "article" than book, you could convey the same amount of information in a two page spread of a magazine if you so desired, but that doesn't take away from the quality.
The art doesn't detract from the message, which is what I quite enjoy. It's clean, and does the job nicely. I'm not sure how accurate it is to depicting the people who it's supposed to be, but in something like this I don't think that's the most important part of it all. It's about the essence of the thing, rather than the accuracy, and that's what the art is there to convey.
This is one that I don't know if I'd recommend it lightly, but I will be recommending it to people. It's one of those things that you're really only going to be interested if you like or know of the topic, and that's really unfortunate because it's a very good outline of how the movement began.
I wasn't quite sure if this would be something I'd judge or be actually interested in, but it has a sort of charming quality to it. Graphic novels are something that it can be difficult to convey a ton of information, but this doesn't feel lacking by any stretch. It definitely feels closer to "article" than book, you could convey the same amount of information in a two page spread of a magazine if you so desired, but that doesn't take away from the quality.
The art doesn't detract from the message, which is what I quite enjoy. It's clean, and does the job nicely. I'm not sure how accurate it is to depicting the people who it's supposed to be, but in something like this I don't think that's the most important part of it all. It's about the essence of the thing, rather than the accuracy, and that's what the art is there to convey.
This is one that I don't know if I'd recommend it lightly, but I will be recommending it to people. It's one of those things that you're really only going to be interested if you like or know of the topic, and that's really unfortunate because it's a very good outline of how the movement began.