Tom De Haven
Autore di It's Superman!
Sull'Autore
Tom De Haven is the author of several novels, including Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies (winner of the 1997 American Book Award) and Funny Papers. A frequent contributor to Entertainment Weekly and The New York Times, he also teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University and is a licensed private mostra altro investigator. He lives in Midlothian, Va. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Midlothian, Virginia
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 22
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 1,537
- Popolarità
- #16,747
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 30
- ISBN
- 83
- Lingue
- 4
- Preferito da
- 2
What it wasn't was very interesting. I feel like this was a huge opportunity for something as dynamic as the title character, yet De Haven seemed intent on avoiding the big scenes and the big themes that could well have suited this subject. Everything he writes is interesting and very well researched, insofar as authenticity to its time, it seems to me. But if you're going to write a book about Superman and how he got to be who he is, I would hope you wouldn't save all your extraordinary action and conflict until the final quarter. I enjoyed reading along, but kept thinking, "When's it going to start?" Right after it finally did start, it stopped.
A serious novel on Superman, as well-written as this one is, should leave the reader deeply moved, intensely affected in some way. This one left me remembering how I'd cried over the death of Superman story back in one of the 1960s comic books, and wondering why I felt so much more moved then.… (altro)