The Complete Peanuts: 1955-1956 Dailies & Sundays

This may be Peak Peanuts. It's definitely peak cuteness. Linus is still crawling when the year starts. Snoopy is starting to do "impressions", but he's still a dog.

It really does come together here, and you're not seeing the "learning curve" that was so obvious in the first books. At this point, there's no more "beginning"--it is a great strip.

One quibble: Lucy's determination to get married, and her disappointment that her kindergarten doesn't offer classes in homemaking. Eeeeech.

I have read the first two volumes, which I need to add at some point. I am mostly borrowing them from the public library, but this is a set I would not mind having. For this third volume, I have to agree with other readers in that Schultz is finding his stride. Only thing that kind of gets me is how the girls can be so mean to Charlie Brown. Snoopy's impressions are just a hoot. And Pig-Pen is becoming a regular "dirt" philosopher. Great strip.

I finished it, and I have to say that I enjoyed it very much. I will be looking forward to the other volumes. I borrowed this one from the Tyler Public Library, my local library now.

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Hmm, looking over my blog, it turns out I read this earlier in 2005 as well. Here is the note anyways. At show more any rate, rereading books like these is definitely a pleasure.

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What can I say? This is the work of a genius. This particular set evokes warm fuzzy feelings when reading it. I particularly love how the strip focuses around the events of the time as well as the time of the year.

The third volume of the complete "Peanuts", at one time my favorite comic strip. Things begin to develop and gel into a closer version of the strip I remember as a child. The bottom of pg. 12 has the first instance of Snoopy thinking his thoughts.Top of pg. 15 has Linus first talking, and introduces "Charlotte Braun" by name, a short-lived character. All the characters, though they range from four to six, human to dog, seem to be reaching a deeper level of sophistication, especially Linus and Snoopy. Top of pg. 114 is a particularly funny example of Snoopy's sarcasm, and the top of 115 an example of his tender feelings. Other notable strips are pgs. 158, 170, 197, 202 (1st Charlie Brown experience with kite up a tree), 227, 257, 276 show more (middle, more Snoopy sarcasm), 308 (Lucy and the football), and there's even an index at the back. show less

I got addicted to a game in Feb and it like......made me not do anything else. I'm so BACK

Peanuts is perfect. So comforting to read.