The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin and Alph-Art
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.59493
EAN: 9780316003759
ISBN: 0316003751
Label: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: December 01, 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Features:- ISBN13: 9780316003759
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Editorial Review:Product Description:Little, Brown is celebrating 100 years of Hergé with 3 titles never before published in the U.S. Join traveling reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy, along with well-known friends such as Captain Haddock, as they embark on extraordinary adventures spanning historical and political events, fantasy and science-fiction adventures and thrilling mysteries. These full-color graphic novels broke new ground when they were first released and became the inspiration for countless modern-day comic artists.
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This was unfortunately not a book. It was a collection of dumb sketches and I hated it. What is the point of buying a book if you can't even read it. There is no rerason to buy this book so to put it shortly don't.
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A fascinating and adult Tintin book, well worth reading for Tintin fans. Tintin takes on art forgers, and Herge takes on fake art lovers. As other commenters have said it's very interesting to see the process behind the making of a Tintin book.
Herge spends the first 10 pages re-introducing all the main characters from past books and having them interact with each other. These introductory pages, despite being mostly plot-less, are great fun to read. I think this is because as you get older the things most interesting from childhood books like Tintin, Asterix, and The Lord of the Rings, are not the plots but how the characters act. How Rastopopulous will always return to being evil for example, or the shamelessness of Alcazar.
If you're into Tintin because of its action, this book might not be fun. Castafiore again is central to what annoys Herge, and generally this book is about fakes. Here fakes are people who like the idea of themselves being into art rather than liking art itself. It's funny and interesting, and more like watching the TV show Absolutely Fabulous than reading other Tintin books.
The book continues the cynicism of Picaros and Castafiore, and the way he mocks some of the characters is more obvious than in the other books. This is probably the sort of thing that would have been removed over rewrites and editing, which he unfortunately wasn't able to do.
Everyone is taken in with the Alph-Art, including the Captain who buys one. When Tintin is in trouble, it's either Snowy or luck that saves him. It's not a very hopeful book, but a funny and interesting one.
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This book is more a bunch of sketches and ideas for Herge's final unfinished book. Interesting for collectors, but not if you want to read Tintin for fun. Has some interesting detailed sketches, and you can kind of read through the drawings.
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This is a version of Herge's last, unfinished Tintin, translated to English. It is in my opinion the best Tintin adventure around. Unfortunately, only line drawings are available which are not very clear on some pages. The French version has two volumes, one containing a replica of the drawings and the other a script. The English version condenses them into one volume, meaning the space devoted to the drawings is unfortunately smaller.
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My son has all of the tintin books but says this is his favorite. He's 10 and I figure that does say something!
Copyright ©2003, Mark Carey.
