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Rachel Kushner recommended The Skin in Books (curated)

 
The Skin
The Skin
Curzio Malaparte | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
(0 Ratings)
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"This novel, a linked series of strange and acid and darkly comic vignettes on life in Naples at the end of World War II, gets at the material reality of a liberator (the American military) as occupier and at the contradictory and surreal world of Naples. In sum, no one is innocent, not even Malaparte."

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The New Mutants (2020)
The New Mutants (2020)
2020 | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
I liked it. Of course it has flaws but I thought it was fun. At least now more people know more characters than they did and how is that a bad thing. Growing the comic industry should be the goal to me. I hope people watch it and go pick some comics or tpbs up.
  
Kick-Ass Vol. 2
Kick-Ass Vol. 2
Mark Millar | 2012 | Comics & Graphic Novels
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6.0 (2 Ratings)
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I wanted to like it, I really did.
Okay my low rating isn't because it was necessarily a bad comic because it wasn't, it had some really awesome parts and I love the super group so much but it was like Millar saw how much people loved the violence, myself included, and kind of just went so overboard with it in this volume that it really took away from the story because it was just violence for the sake of violence the hyper violence this time around just didn't add anything to the story and one instance really was just cringe worthy and honestly ruined the rest of the comic for me.

So as much as I wanted to like this one I just didn't.