The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Both R. and I thought it was amazing. Even if you don't think you'd be interested in it based on the summaries you'll see on goodreads or amazon, read it. Much longer than what I like to read, and I was so very sad when it was over and I had to say goodbye to the characters.

from kalky

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Michael Chabon writes beautifully... it's not often that I find a book that makes me want to re-read sentences because they are so darn well-phrased.Of course, beautiful writing is nothing without a good story, and I love this story. A war, comic book...

from CarltonC

A sweeping romantic tale of the comic book and the lives of two of their creators as imagined by Chabon. It is a fantastic romp of a story with joyful narrative drive, bringing to life a lost age of New York and European immigrant culture. For me, the story was in three parts, the initial story o...

from kambrogi

Although I resisted when my sister thrust this on me several years ago (something about the cover put me off), I am horrified now to think I might have missed this marvelous book. It is one of my all-time favorites, a tale of New York in its heyday just before WWII and beyond. It begins in Prague...

from mwj1981

This is unquestionably the greatest book I have read in the last 8 or 9 years. It has been some time since I was affected so deeply by fictional characters and their circumstance. I began this book with some trepidation (the first 100 or so pages deal largely with American teenagers and their blo...