Reviews for Precalculus : Graphing and Data Analysis, 1998

The average rating for Precalculus : Graphing and Data Analysis, 1998 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-08-30 00:00:00 Amanda Cooper I swear I can't quite properly criticize this book because I obtained it in junior high, hidden with a stack of actual Krazy Kat comics. I read it obsessively, and it became a sort of pattern over which my adolescence was formed. I only understood about half of the content, but what I could understand was like a drink of water after a long walk. And I found Mr. Cantor attractive in a way far more predatory than society admits young women feel. Cantor's "Krazy Kat" is still the only book I have ever found that convinces me of fanfiction as an art form. If only it were all this good. The overlay of the atomic tests on Krazy's desert, on the casts' world, created a chord that resonated with my own adolescent rage. If the book reads, at times almost embarrassingly casual and indulgent, it comes from the motif that all our personal facets are valid, not just the most popular ones. On first read, as a kid, I felt justified in feeling wrong and weird, because the wrong and weird is the right and lovely at the very same time. As an adult having had actual experiences, it reminded me that no matter how perfect my life feels, someone's going to see it as a nuclear disaster - and to stop trying to save people who need nothing more than a brick to the head.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-02-03 00:00:00 George Deal An experimental novel. Cantor takes George Herriman's early 20th century comic strip characters and imagines them after they're no longer appearing in newspapers across the country. They want to go back to "work" and regain their popularity and become "round" instead of two-dimensional. Intriguing ideas that don't pan out as the book deals with psychoanalysis, Hollywood moviemaking and the changes it brings to good ideas, gaining the "rights" back to the characters themselves, and finally devolves into a long, final section that's basically little more than pornography. Disappointing.