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laura_cs's review against another edition
5.0
This book is fantastic! I devoured it in about two hours! So good and so addictive! It's perfect for anyone who loves Calvin and Hobbes, which is pretty much everyone so pretty much everyone will love this book. It's deep, it's funny, and the characters are wonderful!
catz853's review
4.0
Fantastic overall but the author takes the easy way out at the end. Still a really impressive book.
janewhitehurst's review
3.0
I really wanted to love this book, but it just dragged a bit for me. I liked the basis of the story, a teenager, Calvin, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and starts hallucinating that he's seeing and talking to Hobbs the tiger from Calvin and Hobbes. He soon embarks on a journey to try to "cure" his schizophrenia and his childhood best friend, Suzie, joins him on the trip. I like that the book brings attention to mental illness and explains the brain processes that occur in a schizophrenic brain. It also shows that a person with this diagnosis can absolutely live a full life and experience love just like anyone else. It was definitely refreshing in that sense. I just think it needed more editing.
amazing_emily_anderson's review
2.0
Calvin has way too many connections to Bill Watterson's comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" for them to be coincidental; his best friend is named Susie, he has a bully named Moe, and he even has a stuffed tiger named Hobbes. But the comic strip becomes all too real when Calvin gets diagnosed with Schizophrenia and he starts seeing and hearing a delusional tiger named Hobbes. Believing that one more comic strip from Bill Watterson will cure the hallucinations for good, Calvin sets out on a trek across frozen Lake Erie to set his mind straight.
This book was okay. The connection to Calvin and Hobbes was corny at best, desperate at worst. There were too many moments where I felt like the author was trying a little too hard to be profound, which manifested as blocks of philosophical dialogue between Calvin and Susie. I appreciated the effort that the author was trying to make, namely putting a twist on a classic comic like Calvin and Hobbes, but I think that it missed the mark a little bit.
This book was okay. The connection to Calvin and Hobbes was corny at best, desperate at worst. There were too many moments where I felt like the author was trying a little too hard to be profound, which manifested as blocks of philosophical dialogue between Calvin and Susie. I appreciated the effort that the author was trying to make, namely putting a twist on a classic comic like Calvin and Hobbes, but I think that it missed the mark a little bit.
elisenm's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
reflective
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
tinynavajo's review
5.0
If you love the Calvin and Hobbes books, then you need to read this book. "Calvin" is about a boy named Calvin, born on the the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic was published, who had a stuffed tiger growing up, and a girl named Suzie grew up next door to him. Calvin is 17 years old when he develops schizophrenia and Hobbes comes back. Calvin decides the only way to make Hobbes go away is to have Bill Watterson, the creator of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, to create a one last comic strip with Calvin, aged 17 years old with no Hobbes.
I loved this book more than I thought I would, and if you have any love for the old comics, you will love this book. You need to read it. Everyone needs to read it.
I loved this book more than I thought I would, and if you have any love for the old comics, you will love this book. You need to read it. Everyone needs to read it.
justlily's review
2.0
I don't quite know what to say about this one.
I guess first off, as short as it is (I read it in a few hours), it's not an "easy" read. The way the sentences are put together, the way the words fit together, it's very awkward and stuttering in places. I kept having to go back and re-read, making sure I understood what I had just been over. There were these huge chunks of information about physics and religion and science and mostly, I just wanted them to end.
The whole story is so bizarre and jarring (as I'm sure it's meant to be) that I never really connected with any of it because I never knew if any of it was real. Granted, Calvin has schizophrenia so I suppose the author accomplished that fairly well.
I don't know. Quick read but I wouldn't say it was necessarily good.
I guess first off, as short as it is (I read it in a few hours), it's not an "easy" read. The way the sentences are put together, the way the words fit together, it's very awkward and stuttering in places. I kept having to go back and re-read, making sure I understood what I had just been over. There were these huge chunks of information about physics and religion and science and mostly, I just wanted them to end.
The whole story is so bizarre and jarring (as I'm sure it's meant to be) that I never really connected with any of it because I never knew if any of it was real. Granted, Calvin has schizophrenia so I suppose the author accomplished that fairly well.
I don't know. Quick read but I wouldn't say it was necessarily good.
cami19's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5