coolfoolmoon's reviews
303 reviews

I giggled again.

I giggled.

I get it. I get why the girlies are like that. I get it.

One you get past the language barrier, nay, once you embrace the language barrier, you get it. The language is beautiful. The story is juicy. I love hot goss no matter the era. I had a great time and I was inspired to write so you know what? Extra points. What a great book.

I didn't know what to expect when reading this but it is a full fledge intro into the study of poetry. Its' not all that accessible unless you already have a basic understanding of how to study poetry, which I wouldn't say I did even after coming out of AP English in high school, but it's been a few years. I started reading poetry for fun because I was like "whats all the hullabaloo?" and I like it now but this made me realize I don't give poems a full in depth analysis. Sometimes a poem is so good I read it twice or thrice over before closing the book or going to the next page but I hardly look THIS much into a poem, and this is only a very short introduction! Wow. So cool! I love literature!

It's a shame I took so long to start reading comics. This was very fun and I'm excited to see more! I loved the art even when it was gruesome, I loved the storytelling through the text bubbles the same way films use voiceover or j-cuts (even though this might be a comic books standard, I'm new here), and I loved the additional readings in the end!

This book would've been my bible as a child. Just the break down of all the flags when you first open the book, not even the first page, truly made me feral.

As a communist I really appreciate a neutral historical perspective. Naturally, it's easy to lean into your biases and very hard for people to recognize when they're even have them. Unfortunately, the author is so weirdly anti-communist. Well, I shouldn't say weirdly, because being anti-communist is generally how most people are, but the messaging feels very much like you're telling kids "Hey by the way just incase you get any ideas about how cool these flags look I want you to subconsciously remember these people's ideology failed once!" And I wouldn't have focused on this in my review if not for one page where she (the author) paints Britain as the heroes in a country's independence movement (for the nation Qatar). AND there are multiple times where she makes the UN seem like good guys. And then I find out the author (and illustrator) is British! Of course!

Also negative points because there's no mention of Costa Rica and Thailand having almost the same flag!

I appreciated the historical flags with their explanations, part of why the book made me feral. History  of the flags and flags AND a little bit of history about the country / area?! Despite my critiques I WILL be buying this and using it as a coffee table book. I want everyone who ever enters my abode to see such a wonderful book.

Maybe the real immortality was the deaths we made along the way ❌️❌️❌️

Beautiful GORGEOUS art. So much life, so much character! And the story is great too but I really fawned over the art, the colors, the perspectives, etc.

Very cute! You'll notice some of the background colors are some of the pride flags! Happy month!

Did I have a good time? One could say that. Is it a good book? If you'e delusional sure.

There's so much going on here. First of all, love me a book with a map. Love me a book with extreme worldbuilding. Did it get a laugh or two out of me? Sure, sure. Where do I even begin with its flaws though? White people love to do this thing where they reinvent racism for robots instead of acknowledging the real world racism that exists. They think "Oh if bigoted bad humans had another thing to hate they would just move on to the other thing." That's not and has never been true. White people also love to do this thing where they reinvent eugenics. They're obsessed with it. These two critiques could be unnecessary, if they weren't a flaw of the writing / author. Dystopia & satirical media that critiques the future or the present day as a sort of cautionary tale by highlighting who we are and who we could be to extremes CAN be good, but white people have such a tendency to miss the mark. And you can see their own biases and flaws in the examples I just gave, but somehow they can't. And, if it really was that white people WERE saying "Eugenics bad, bigotry bad" why do they do it exactly the same way at every opportunity they get? So you're telling the same story over and over and it's like, okay, either your message is you want the people reading this to think it's bad, which they don't because they've seen the story be told the same way so many time they actually think this must be good therefore they believe it, OR, the more realistic option, you actually deep down believe it yourself and don't even realize it.

I liked the footnotes and extra details. But then it got to be too much. Then I realize, oh, this book is set 60 years in the future. I can suspend my disbelief but when you start annoying me with other shit it gets unsuspended. Re-enrolled, if you will. Also, the main character is 16??? Whole time until that point I thought he was in his mid-20s. Ew! 

I wanted to rate this higher but as I got further and further into the end I just got more annoyed,

to the point where when the president is giving the speech about how the masses have to be controlled and that's just the "natural order" of the world, I out loud yelled "this shit again?!" at the park and a few heads turned.

Even my three star rating is generous. For how much it annoyed me I wanted to give it 2.75! You'll never be Dimension 20's A Starstruck Odyssey!!!

Poems that rhyme! Poems that rhyme! Finally finally after all this time! Poems that sometimes approximately rhyme!