Learners Book

Sigh. I've been thinking for the last few days about what I should say in this review. I love Chip Kidd's voice, you see, his snappy dialogue and his witty little characters and his charming descriptions. There's a lot of clever stuff in this book, too, including smart digressions on form vs. content, design in general, psychology, and clothing from the fifties. But the story... well it didn't really go anywhere. Or, rather, the places that it managed to go were not at all satisfying. To me. In many ways it was just a big letdown, definitely not delivering on the promises I imagined it to be making, coming, as it did, what, five years after The Cheese Monkeys? and calling itself a sequel. Or even promises it could have made within itself, as far as setting up conflict and themes and then doing something with them that made sense and felt right. And also, the ending really, really blew.

I dunno. Disappointing.

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Don't worry, impatience won out. I've now got this pretty little book in my hot little hands.

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So, does the amount that I loved Cheese Monkeys (which was a fucking lot) justify paying $25 for an advance reader's of this one?? I mean no, no, of course not, $25 is just silly. Right?

But that means I'm going to have to wait months for it to come out in pb.

Rrrrgggghhhh. Which is more powerful, my impatience or my cheapness?