Veiled Injustice

I love graphic novels because it is a nice break from the normal type of book. Its like the difference between watching a TV show (on dvd of course) and watching a movie. Well, maybe that analogue doesn't work as well on paper as it does in my head... But my point is that it is a change, not for better, not for worse. But a change in the telling of a story. In a graphic novel the author is using pictures to convey some things that may be difficult to convey in a plain novel (plain isn't bad). How often have you seen a movie that is based on a book and been pissed off because the movie didn't fit with you idea for the book? I know that I have for almost every book turned movie. In fact I have taken the stance that they are different and thus should be viewed differently and not in light of each other.
Before Persepolis I had never heard of a autobiography graphic novel (tongue twister eh?). That is a type of book I would never expect to see in a graphical form. But it works very well, but also detracts. It works because it gives the reader a better mental pictures of what is going on. But it detracts because I think the reader will take it less seriously. And now I have run out of ideas so I'll leave it on that note.

Macondo - Game over

It is rather sad that the book is over now because it was such an interesting read. It kind of reminded me of the moving "The Neverending Story" because of the metafiction aspects of both the book and the movie. In the movie the events happening in the fantasy world almost mimic what is going on in the real world. But the characters in the book are aware of the "outside" world and the person who is reading the book. In 100 Years of Solitude you have the metafictional aspects in the end of the book where it makes you pause, look back over the whole book, and ask yourself: Was any of this real or was it all just a dream or a work of fiction?
I like metafictional elements in books so long as it is not overdone; it adds a very interesting and different aspect to the normal kind of book.