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Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1967-08-09
Género
male
Lugares de residencia
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Educación
Oberlin College (AB|Art History, 1989)

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A strange read now a days, I think. At least for me.
I started it without realizing that the author was writing from the experiences of others. I thought that the author was writing based from known events and created characters based in that reality. At the end of the read, the story was given a different context when I realized that what I'd just read was real life recollections via interviews that the author conducted with people.

I'm not sure how to feel about that. Especially when the interviews seemed to have been done within a few years after Katrina, not within the 2010s, then published in 2009. Four years after Katrina, not a decade and some change.

I am sure if I did some research I could answer this question, but as it stands, I wonder (and hope) that the author gave any and all money gain from this book to those that he interviewed or to non profits at the time of the publication. Areas impacted by Katrina are thankfully in much better conditions, or they have been abandoned due to not receiving any help in timely fashions, or they're neighborhoods of those unable to economically restart in those areas....

That being said...

The art and color direction of the book was fantastic. Using hard coloration in the beginning and contrast towards the end was a distinctive and memorably was to bring things from the sharp sameness of Katrina's impact to the 'we're moving on' contrast that the coloration did to the 'characters' with their environments. The color direction lost a lot of its impact due to the characters not being characters but real people, however, but perhaps to someone else, this impact does remain.

Because this book takes from interviews and stories of real people, props must be given to the parts of the book where the author's imagination and interpretation of the interviews come in clearly. I'm glad that they're there, since everyone, including those that were not there when it happened, were impacted by Katrina. That shows and I'm glad for it.

Okay, rambling over~
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LouLTE | 27 reseñas más. | Oct 7, 2023 |
Boring. I had to skim through a lot of it. I agree with reviewers who wondered who the audience was for this. No reason for it to be a graphic novel. The pictures added nothing, and there were way too many words, to be honest. I'm saying this as somebody who also reads a variety of things, including regular non-fiction and 1000 page fantasy epics, so it's not necessarily that I have a short attention span... It's just that I was expecting something more engaging from a graphic novel, I guess, and this was just boring. It's also by no means revolutionary, and honestly just kind of toes the mainline Democratic line pretty neatly, as far as I could tell. Maybe I'm just crazy left-leaning, I don't know. It just seemed like it was supporting the same old corrupt (sorry, they are corrupt) institutions. Definitely not a "maifesto" by any means. Yawn. Oh well.… (más)
 
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veewren | 28 reseñas más. | Jul 12, 2023 |
This is the 2012 "one book one school" summer reading for incoming freshmen at Millersville University
Very thought provoking.
Could supply many opportunities for discussion in government and/or English classes
 
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pollycallahan | 28 reseñas más. | Jul 1, 2023 |
I have a thing for journalism comics like this. I watched Katrina on TV, and it just wasn't comprehensible, but through the eyes of these seven people, it's become a lot more vivid and personal. Makes you feel closer to what happened there.
 
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Enno23 | 27 reseñas más. | Aug 15, 2021 |

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9
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8
Miembros
982
Popularidad
#26,223
Valoración
3.8
Reseñas
57
ISBNs
22
Idiomas
5

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