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orriblecabbage

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I’m not a “Marvel guy”.  I barely know that a Skrull is an alien and not, as I might have…

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March 11, 2008 6:24 pm

I cannot begin to explain how much I loved this book.  The thing is simply a pleasure to hold.  Yes, it can be jarring at times, but it's supposed to be.

I found that the best way to approach it was as a kind of game.  The Military Intelligence people that put together the Dossier didn't have a clue about what they were talking about, therefore the various narrators become potentially untrustworthy.  The game is to extract the true story from the lies and misconceptions.  And if that "mystery-solving" game doesn't enthrall, then there is always the old LoEG standbye - the "how many literary references can I spot on this page?" game.

As for the Sal Paradyse section, that did slow me down at first, but once I found the rhythm that it was written in and started to"see" where the punctuation should be, it became one of my favourite parts of the book.

Sure, it's not the most "accessible" book in the world.  But then neither are the texts on which it is based.  The reward is well worth the challenge.

Well, I guess I could explain how much I loved this book after all.

(Oh, and it can be a little hard to get hold of here in Australia.  The larger stores that import direct from the US seem to have some though - eg. Kings Comics or Kinokuniya's here in Sydney)