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A review by graciegrace1178
The Son of Neptune: The Graphic Novel by Robert Venditti, Rick Riordan
4.0
THIS IS SO COOL WHAT? HOW DID I NOT READ THIS SOONER?
PT: Riordan, books in a series, books that got me out of a reading slump, graphic novels, children's books
1) meme state master Riordan. It drives me mad honestly. How in the HECK-? Okay. Okay. Allow me to explain. Riordan writes a book, right? The Lightning Thief. It's pretty instantly well-received and becomes a best-seller. Awesome right? But why is that? Why is it so fantastically praised? What distinguishes it from the other bazillion YA books out there?
The answer is... a lot of things. BUT MOSTLY: meme states. This man, Señor Riordan, has the heckin magical capacity to generate UNIFORM meme states ACROSS DEMOGRAPHICS. And, and, how that connects to this? The meme states are *angled* and *colored* uniformly. Like, in terms of cinema, the direction is precisely what was written. This means that THIS BOOK is (almost) exactly the mental depiction that was going on while I read, down to angles of each photo and the lighting and coloration choices. Do you know what this means??? IT MEANS that I need to email my communicology professor again because this is bonkers.
AND ALSO: credit where credit is due! Señor Venditti is a master of capturing the ethereal meme states and putting them to paper. I MEAN HONESTLY.
2) I don't read graphic novels. I don't write that to say anything about my personality, but rather to address the sheer bonkers-ness of my 1) picking up this book 2) reading is and genuinely delighting in it and 3) really *wanting* to continue reading it. I haven't had that happen in too long.
3) character bias. Do I like this more because these are some of my comfort characters and I already know and love them? Maybe. But STILL
WIDL:
1) Read this as a digital book. Should've gotten a physical copy.
PT: Riordan, books in a series, books that got me out of a reading slump, graphic novels, children's books
1) meme state master Riordan. It drives me mad honestly. How in the HECK-? Okay. Okay. Allow me to explain. Riordan writes a book, right? The Lightning Thief. It's pretty instantly well-received and becomes a best-seller. Awesome right? But why is that? Why is it so fantastically praised? What distinguishes it from the other bazillion YA books out there?
The answer is... a lot of things. BUT MOSTLY: meme states. This man, Señor Riordan, has the heckin magical capacity to generate UNIFORM meme states ACROSS DEMOGRAPHICS. And, and, how that connects to this? The meme states are *angled* and *colored* uniformly. Like, in terms of cinema, the direction is precisely what was written. This means that THIS BOOK is (almost) exactly the mental depiction that was going on while I read, down to angles of each photo and the lighting and coloration choices. Do you know what this means??? IT MEANS that I need to email my communicology professor again because this is bonkers.
AND ALSO: credit where credit is due! Señor Venditti is a master of capturing the ethereal meme states and putting them to paper. I MEAN HONESTLY.
2) I don't read graphic novels. I don't write that to say anything about my personality, but rather to address the sheer bonkers-ness of my 1) picking up this book 2) reading is and genuinely delighting in it and 3) really *wanting* to continue reading it. I haven't had that happen in too long.
3) character bias. Do I like this more because these are some of my comfort characters and I already know and love them? Maybe. But STILL
WIDL:
1) Read this as a digital book. Should've gotten a physical copy.