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haileyhardcover's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
I don’t know how to rate this book, so I simply will not. Did I enjoy reading it? No, not particularly. It is awkward, painful, and unnecessarily sesquipedalian. Is it also incredible? Undoubtedly, yes.
The amount of TIME that must’ve gone into writing - or more specifically DRAWING - all of this is mind blowing. With a cursory glance, one might look at Bechdel’s artistic style and think it unoriginal - similar to so many other comics we’ve seen before. But I beg you to look longer. Look at the detail; not in EVERY panel, but so many of them. Look at all of the WORDS. There are so many words - beyond the captions and the speech/thought ballons, so often the art of the panels themselves are just words - snippets from letters, journals, books, newspapers, court records, or the dictionary… and it’s all hand drawn?! I can’t begin to imagine how much time this would take…
Fun Home is not fun. I cannot say I enjoyed reading it, but I also absolutely cannot deny that it’s a masterpiece. I have no idea how they could’ve turned this into a musical…
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia
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