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| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : legxleg's 2009 reading part 2 | | 41 | alcottacre, Monday 8:54am | |
| Club Read 2009 : janepriceestrada’s 2009 Reading | | 32 | rosefromthule, Friday 11:07am | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : davidw's 75 for 2009... | | 53 | dk_phoenix, November 4 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Trystorp's Books in 2009 | | 88 | tymfos, October 26 | |
| Comics : If you had to recommend something... | | 32 | Echobrain, September 29 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : SF Graphic Novels | | 14 | ogodei, September 28 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Lantzy's | | 3 | Lantzy, September 18 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Top 100 Sci Fi Recommendations for New Readers of the Genre: Post Your List | | 362 | RobertDay, August 17 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : selin1005's (expected) 50 | | 37 | selin1005, July 30 | |
| Post-apocalyptic Literature : List of books to check out in this genre | | 30 | tkpunk, June 28 | |
| Science Fiction Fans : Obscure Cameos - or not? | | 7 | geneg, June 7 | |
| Graphic Novels! : Comics I've Loved So Far... | | 15 | Cynara, June 1 | |
| The Green Dragon : Hooked on Phonics! | | 23 | littlegeek, May 29 | |
| Read YA Lit : YA books for teenage boys | | 26 | bookwink, May 20 | |
| 999 Challenge : Psychodelicacy's 999 challenge | | 3 | avatiakh, April 28 | |
| 999 Challenge : elizabeth's 999 challenge | | 14 | elizabeth, January 13 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : paghababian's 75 Book Challenge in 2008 | | 37 | paghababian, January 1 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : ABCs | | 122 | mamalaz, January 1 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : Don't make me repeat myself! | | 16 | jburlinson, December 2008 | |
| 888 Challenge : cccchuckles 888 | | 26 | cccchuckles, August 2008 | |
| Comics : Trades vs. Individual | | 29 | atlargeintheworld, July 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : mscroggs and her 2008 challenge | | 17 | mscroggs, April 2008 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : What book would you like to see made into a movie? | | 58 | KimberlyL, January 2008 | |
| Dormant: genderqueer : What are folks reading? | | 77 | GrrlLovesBooks, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : Romantic /Graphic Novels | | 13 | mvrdrk, October 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : Y: The Last Man | | 13 | KromesTomes, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : Favorite scifi from the last 10 years | | 90 | pivox, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : Pride of Baghdad? | | 9 | takethebackseat, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: T h e . C a n d y . D a r l i n g s`` : Game Time! Last Letter ` ` S i l a s | | 18 | eekarumba, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : Mainstreaming a Rebellious Form of Art | | 45 | Jakeofalltrades, July 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : Five Best for Beginners | | 25 | Arctic-Stranger, June 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : Anything Exciting Your Waiting For... | | 43 | firepile, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: Comics : what are the differences between a regular novel and a graphic novel? | | 11 | bookherd, March 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Fantasy Graphic Novels | | 43 | LyriqueTragedy, January 2007 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : myquillisquick tests her sanity | | 96 | bonniebooks, Tuesday 5:57pm |
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| 250 book challenge : eviltammy's 2009 reading | | 48 | eviltammy, Sunday 12:16pm |
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| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Paghababian's 75 books in 2009 | | 46 | alcottacre, October 27 |
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| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : legxleg 2009 reading | | 208 | legxleg, October 3 |
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| 999 Challenge : bell7's | | 195 | bell7, August 28 |
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| 50 Book Challenge : bell7's 81-ish challenge in 2009 | | 209 | bell7, August 26 |
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| The Green Dragon : 1001 Science Fiction Books to Read Before a Supernova Kills Us All | | 127 | hearts3134, June 12 |
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| Comics : girls who read comics | | 76 | nakedzombieforce, May 28 |
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| 50 Book Challenge : englishrose60 | | 253 | englishrose60, January 10 |
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| 50 Book Challenge : KPlatypus: Going for 150 in 2008 | | 100 | Kplatypus, January 8 |
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| Science Fiction Fans : Favorite post apocalyptic or dystopian future novel? | | 121 | thesmellofbooks, December 2008 |
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| The Green Dragon : Next Round of 'What are you Reading Now?' | | 245 | mrgrooism, October 2008 |
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| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : sandragon's 2007 50 book challenge | | 18 | sandragon, January 2008 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : stalking fictional characters | | 111 | WillSteed, September 2007 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tell us what you are reading now. | | 341 | Busifer, June 2007 |
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| Dormant: What did YOU buy today? : Message Board | | 397 | aluvalibri, April 2007 |
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| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 9 Sep 2006 | | 89 | janehyde, November 2006 |
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... entire chapter dedicated to stories where all the men in the world disappear or vice versa, so TadAD was completely right, Y The Last Man wasn't a very unique concept at all ~_~. At any rate, I recommend the book, although I imagine someone more well-read in science fiction than I am would get ... ... great.
You might enjoy Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, starting with Preludes and Nocturnes, and Brian Vaughan's Y: The Last Man series. ... Maguire
9. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan
10. The Walking Dead, Book 1 by Robert Kirkman
11. Y: The Last Man, Book 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
12. Y: The Last Man, Book 2 by Brian K. Vaughan Hi David - Epileptic looks really good, the cover artwork alone makes it worth a closer look. Y: The Last Man is another I'll have to check out. I like your reviews, brief and to the point. The Corner reminds me of Richard Price's great novel Clockers. 61- Y: The Last Man Vol. 1- Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan 4/5
Another graphic novel I picked up on a whim from the library, and I'm glad I did. This one tells the story of Yorick, an escape artist, and his pet monkey Ampersand, who happen to be the only male survivors of a planet-wide ... 148. Knockout by Catherine Coulter
149. Unmanned (Y: The Last Man, vol.1) by Brian K. Vaughan
150. Strong Enough To Die by Jon Land
151. Worst Nightmares by Shane Briant ... showing up in Byzantium and his subsequent career. Theodora seeks to advance him while hiding his real identity.
49. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan 4/5
This series of 10 graphic novels is remarkably good. A plague has killed all of the male mammals on earth except for two - A ... ... Goseki Kojima (Lone Wolf and Cub) and Takehiko Inoue (Vagabond).
I also like Pia Guerra, an illustrator for Y The Last Man, and Ryan Kelly, who illustrated Local, written by Brian Wood ...
23. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein
24. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger*
25. Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian Vaughn, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan, Jr.
I'm going on vacation in three days. Of course I'm bringing books. So hopefully in ... 25/50
Y: The Last Man Vol. 1: Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughn, Pia Guerra, and Jose Marzan, Jr.
I'm not going to lie, the only reason I borrowed this was because Shia Labeouf was attached to the upcoming movie adaptation and he said this was his favorite comic book (he has since detached ... Well, in the first issue of Y: The Last Man, there is a panel where "Houston, Houston, do you read?" is coming over the radio at Johnson Space Center, where all the male employees lie dead. Houston, Houston, Do You Read? is a James Tiptree, Jr. story with a similar plague-kills-all-men ... 5 - That's an easy one - it's y. (teehee! That touchstones to one of my favourite comics). Front rounded vowels are fun. I like the Danish vowels. There are so many of them! ... fans and the first-time readers will all find something good.
#35 - So glad you found this helpful! I really loved Y: The Last Man - hope you do too!
20) When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris - I think this is Sedaris' funniest book since Me Talk Pretty One Day. It's ... ... and Genius Squad do pretty well with my teens and the Vampire Beach novels are about vampires also graphic novels like Y:the last man ... the case! And that it involves Clarisse and Chris, some of my favorite secondary-characters.
Book 64 is a comic book, Unmanned, the first in the Y Last Man series. I'm not really a huge comic book reader, but this one really captured my interest. Some virus has killed of every man or male ... Lots of good books here. I have been eyeing the Y: The Last Man books for a while, but have not been able to commit to the cost. Yeah, I know I could check it out from the library, but it looks like the kind of thing I want to own. Of course, most books look like that to me...
I have been ... ... eGuin
Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card (again for teens)
Book of the New Sun--Gene Wolfe
Farenheit 451--Ray Bradbury
Y:The Last Man--Brian K. Vaughn (It's, horror of horrors, a comic book. I know, kick me right off the forum this instant.)
ETA: fix typo ... --
From Hell
Concrete
Fables
Sandman
Top 10
Grendel: War Child
Batman: The Killing Joke
Y: The Last Man
Acme Novelty Library
--The Man Booker--
Bernice Rubens – The Elected Member
Anne Enright – The Gathering
Alan ... 27. Unmanned - Brian K. Vaughan
28. Cycles - Brian K. Vaughan
29. One Small Step - Brian K. Vaughan
30. Safeword - Brian K. Vaughan ... Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
Finished:
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella
bell7 in 50 Book Challenge : bell7's 81-ish challenge in 2009 (Mar 2, 2009, 7:41pm) Graphic Novels/Manga Count:
11. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
A phenomenon causes all men on the planet to die, except one. Yorick Brown, son of an English professor and a congresswoman, and his monkey Ampersand are apparently the last males living of any species. Nobody knows why. ... 26. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
Category: Graphic Novels (may change to Lost Book Club)
A phenomenon causes all men on the planet to die, except one. Yorick Brown, son of an English professor and a congresswoman, and his monkey Ampersand are apparently the last males living of any ... Y: The Last Man written by Brian K. Vaughan
Otherland by Tad Williams
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Does World War Z by Max Brooks have a chance at being Science Fiction? I recommend the Y: The Last Man series for graphic novel. There are 10 books in the series, but I don't know if you want to count all 10 as one. Would be a very expensive one book ;-) ... Enemy of the People Henrik Ibsen
7. Lost Book Club
a. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
b. Y the Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
8. Juvenile Books (not Y.A. and not picture)
a. Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell
b. Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff ... Y: The Last Man volume 1: Unmanned
Y: The Last Man volume 6: Girl on Girl
Arkham Asylum A Serious House on Serious Earth
Quasar, Quasar Burning Bright by Isaac Asimov
Death: at Death's Door ... at my "good taste". Which is almost as annoying.
But, what I do like is pretty diverse; Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina, most anything by Alan Moore, Scott Pilgrim, The P.L.A.I.N. Janes, Maus, Strangers in Paradise, The Authority, Runaways, Ed Bru ... I share your love for comics, but not your gender, so I hope you don't mind a brief intrusion by a guy.
I added y: the last man to my pull list at the comics shop rather late in the series, so the ending kind of confused me. I've tried to catch up by buying the trades and am up to volume 7 gi ... ... remnants live in a Dyson sphere gone amok - not much for dialog, but oh, the atmosphere!
Battle Angel Alita
Akira
Y: the Last Man
Watchmen
Eden: It's an Endless World by Hiroki Endo - this one is probably my favorite out of this list - highly recommended.
Also - to get ... ... Murakami
Virtual Light by William Gibson
Wraeththu by Storm Constantine
Xaipe by E.E. Cummings
Y: The Last Man: Vol 1. - Unmanned by Brian Vaughan
We love y: the last man in my house (us, 22 year old daughter, 18 year old son). I agree the last trade was disappointing; jumbled and difficult to follow. I found reading it a couple of more times helped, but I admit I didn't convince the rest of my family, who were disappointed, too. does anyone else read y: the last man by brian k vaughan? i really loved the series until the last trade came out. disappointment city. opinions? ... the basic premise of the book worked, bizarre though it sometimes was- I just didn't think it was funny.
Book 83: Y, the Last Man: Unmanned, by Brian K. Vaughan (Author), and Pia Guerra (illustrator).
My fiancee picked this graphic novel up on the advice of some friends and ... ... Maus II by Art Spiegelman
2. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
3. Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan
4. Watchmen by Alan Moore
5. Good as Lily by Derek Kirk Kim, illustrated by Jesse Hamm
... of lions escaped from the Baghdad Zoo during the US bombing, told from the point of view of the lions. Very interesting.
Y: The Last Man has been a favorite of mine for a while, and they just released the last trade paperback of the series. While you can't get this as a single volume, the ... ... Alice is trying to buy a house and has taken on a big project for her library when she meets Charlie at a party.
47. Unmanned, Y: The Last Man, Volume 1 by Brian Vaughan - A sudden disaster leaves the world man-less... well, except for Yorick Brown and his monkey, who may be the only ... Just read all 10 volumes of Y The Last Man, excellent stuff it is too, and I'm about half-way through Tarzan of the Apes, which is also an excellent read. Not sure where to go next, might try something of a sci-fi / space theme... ... Villette by Charlotte Bronte
17. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
18. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
19. The Last Man by Mary Shelley
20.Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
21. Iola by Frances W. Harper
22. My Antonia by Willa Cather
23. F ... ... it would be - Fables by Bill Willingham... if I had two recommendations I could give it would be buy Fables and Y: The Last Man, but you're asking for single, standalone volumes of stuff, so how about... um... Blankets (I see that's been mentioned before, it's very good), it's not ... 20: Y the Last Man volume 10 - The end of the series. It was a satisfying ending but I am still sad to let go of the story. So far it's my favorite comic series. There is a movie in the works but it will probably suck. ... supposedly working on the series, there's always Preacher by Garth Ennis. Of course, I've been really attached to Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan.
If you want a step up, one can never go wrong with Sin City - they sit next to my Absolute Sandmans. =) ... tag Dyotopia/Apocalyose
1. Peeps
(completed January 2008)
2.The Last Days
(completed January 2008)
3.Y: The Last Man Vol 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,7,8 (completed March 2008)
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I get trades because it's easier and I'm actually more likely to stick with a series if I get it in trade format.
Take Y: The Last Man. I've had the final trade on pre-order forever and I've loved the series. At the same time, there have been times where I've felt like, "okay, I get it ... #28
Oooh Y The Last Man and Fables two excellent choices that would translate to movies really well. I think they could probably film the Fables graphic novel Legends in Exile without too many changes.
and Y The Last Man is perfect for a miniseries on TV, or perhaps a series of ... ... been going around the 'Net for ages... I'd love for Neil to play his own Morpheus... *sigh*
I'd also love to see the Y: The Last Man movie. I know it's already in production or at least in talks, if I'm not mistaken, and Shia LaBeouf is supposedly cast as Yorick Brown (ack!!! not Shia, ... I've enjoyed the Y: The Last Man series, The Rabbi's Cat and Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda (although this tale is one that is hard to "enjoy"). ... ***1/2
Graphic Novels:
Vogelein by Jane Irwin ****
Ultimate X-men: The Tomorrow People by Marvel****
Y: The Last Man - Unmanned by Brian K. Vaughan ***1/2
Audiobooks:
The Prestige by Christopher Priest ****
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis ****
Th ... ... themselves.
Fables isn't a romance either, but it does have a very nice love story running throughout. Same with Y: The Last Man.
Sorry, I'm having trouble thinking of non-Vertigo series right now.
I just read the first collection Y The Last Man: Unmanned and was sorely disappointed in the ending ... I just can't see even a semi-functioning government, like the one here, letting the last man (?) on earth wander around by himself. ... to death!)
4) Spider, from Anansi Boys
From comics:
1) Morpheus, from The Sandman
2) Yorick Brown, from Y: The Last Man (I loooove his dialogues! errr... his speech bubbles?)
3) John Constantine, from Hellblazer (Keanu is no Constantine! by the way, I know this has been ... ... review for the first five issues, Unmanned. I recently finished the first TPB of Y: The Last Man and rather enjoyed it. I'll have to get around to my local comic store soon to pick up the next volume.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knows if the series or any of the individual issues have won any awards? I'm currently obsessed with Brian K. Vaughan's Y - The Last Man graphic novel series. Even if you're not into "comics", this one's well worth picking up. ... I can't think of a single mainstream American comic that I would describe as "classic adventure." Even "road stories" like Y: The Last Man and "police procedurals" like Fell by Warren Ellis have something supernatural about ... ... post apocolytic events. Not talking about X-men apocolypse and that type of thing. More interested in graphic novels like Y-The last man by Brian K Vaughan ... superhero fare, you can't beat Watchmen.
As for series, Preacher held my interest for a long time, and Fables and Y: The Last Man are a feast.
For the more literary type, I HIGHLY recommend Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. (It got me to reread Ulysses!
Blankets is a touching ... ... are a lot of comics/graphic novels these days that are a lot like drawn tv-shows, or movies... I'm thinking of things like Y the Last Man here, and perhaps if a bigger audience could be found, then more of these sorts of visual stories could find the light of day?
I'd like to hear what ... ... le
Fables by Bill Willingham << I'm a big fan of the old fairytale characters, and this is a great new twist on them
Y The Last Man by Brian K Vaughan << I've only recently read these, and I got through 5 in one day, I think they're that good!
Sandman by Neil Gaiman << Another ... ... for 32-page single issues, nothing is "classic" yet but some good titles are (linking some of the collections here):
Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan
Fables by Bill Willingham
Runaways also by Brian K. Vaughan ... for anything -- I still have plenty of series I'm catching up on (chiefly The Sandman, Sandman Mystery Theatre and Y: The Last Man).
I do hope the Fell trade comes out soon, though. ... immigrants so it could be weird for the other 70%.
Yorick Brown is actually the main character of the graphic novel Y: The Last Man, not my real name. ;) ... time:
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - started that yesterday evening, and I should finish it tonight.
Y the Last Man - I've just chomped my way through 8 graphic novels of this stuff, and it's really good.
Ex Machina - more graphic novelly goodness (what can I say? They' ... I'm always pleased to see someone else buy a Fables graphic novel :-)
My Next Big Thing is waiting for the next Y the Last Man - I can see up there that back in October I hadn't even started reading this series, and now I can't imagine having not read it ;-) Great stuff, and it's inspired ... ... next month. It should arrive in the mail next week.
I really like a lot of Brian K. Vaughan's other work (Runaways, Y the Last Man), but I haven't heard much about Pride of Baghdad. Has anyone read it? Should I keep a box of tissues handy? ... Barker book I've read, and I'm quite enjoying it so far (I'm about a 3rd of the way in). Also, I'm just about to read Y the last Man the first in a series of graphic novels by Brian K. Vaughan, which should be good. I'll give you a Y:
Y: The Last Man graphic novel by Brian K. Vaughn. Wonderful: it's funny, insightful, and takes a good look at society, sex roles, stereotypes, etc. Pick up the first volume; you'll be hooked. ... very well with these books.
Pride of Baghdad - another graphic novel that I really enjoyed, this one by Mr Brian K. "Y the Last Man" Vaughan - all about a small pride of lions that escapes from the zoo in war-torn Baghdad, and the fleeting beauty of freedom..
If you're into more Superhe ... ... Ladder
Time Future,Time Past
Ancient Shores
Transmetropolitan
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Y: The Last Man
We3
I haven't read the more recent Jack McDevitt yet except for a collection published locally, but generally like him too, the Hutchins books, etc. I've heard a lot of good things about Y: The Last Man - I guess I'd better start at volume one and work my way up :-)
Oh, and I've forgotten about Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall - thanks for reminding me Miss_bookworm... miss_bookworm: Those Y:The Last Man books ... those are the graphic novels in which there's only one man left alive in a world full of women, right? How are they? I've just started getting into graphic novels and was pretty curious about those ... I recently finished The walking dead Vol. 4: The ... Yes, I'm looking forward to Pride of Baghdad as well, but I have to say that although I've been following both Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina since early on, they've gotten a little rote lately, particularly Y. I mean, what's actually happened in the last year or two? Mostly detours ... ... McCloud's Making Comics, so I'm not waiting for that anymore.
I'm afraid I'm waiting in the negative sense for Y: The Last Man and the Luna Brother's Girls to finish up. ... which I'm frankly somewhat embarrassed I didn't already own
Nextwave Vol. 1: This Is What They Want! ($20, new)
Y: The Last Man Vol. 6: Girl on Girl ($13, new) ... The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
- Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 5 by Brian Vaughan
I really need to stop buying so many books. Money is only part of the issue. I've only read about 5/8ths of the books I own, ...
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