TaxideaDaisy2 reviewed Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
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4 stars
Probably better to read Hyperbole and a Half first, but you don't have to. We enjoy these books because they present anguish and weirdness so well, and it's not often that we also feel respect for someone who must also be more deranged than ourself. Note: while we wouldn't call them graphic novels or picture books, they are of a largely graphic/comic format.
Solutions seems sadder than Hyperbole, but also wiser... Makes sense that there's a time gap lived between them.
Fwiw we liked Hyperbole better because of the stupid dog, but that's almost irrelevant.
These books are not for everyone, either -- I gave one to someone I thought would like it, and she very much did not.
They are poignant and particular and probably not compatible with denial. They can be painful. But they're also funny.
If you liked Matt Groening's Life is Hell and Love is Hell, …
Probably better to read Hyperbole and a Half first, but you don't have to. We enjoy these books because they present anguish and weirdness so well, and it's not often that we also feel respect for someone who must also be more deranged than ourself. Note: while we wouldn't call them graphic novels or picture books, they are of a largely graphic/comic format.
Solutions seems sadder than Hyperbole, but also wiser... Makes sense that there's a time gap lived between them.
Fwiw we liked Hyperbole better because of the stupid dog, but that's almost irrelevant.
These books are not for everyone, either -- I gave one to someone I thought would like it, and she very much did not.
They are poignant and particular and probably not compatible with denial. They can be painful. But they're also funny.
If you liked Matt Groening's Life is Hell and Love is Hell, from the years before The Simpsons, you might like these.
