Product Description: One of the most acclaimed and emotionally charged graphic novels of all time! Alan Moore says "Both funny and genuinely touching ..." Jeff Smith says "I loved it! Â…" Eddie Campbell says "An eloquent journey! Â…" and SPIN Magazine calls it "The comic debut of the year." With these kinds of endorsements, how can you go wrong!? GOOD-BYE, CHUNKY RICE, the stunning graphic novel debut from Craig Thompson, is quite simply, an absolutely essential tome for every graphic novel reader. This book will dazzle your senses with its Seuss-ian cast of characters and lush cartoon-y brushwork. Â… A quite picture novella of a small turtle, Chunky Rice, leaving his home and his mouse friend, Dandel. His is the classic journey to find one's self, and the deeper meaning of life. A quirky, fervent tale of human loss and connection.
VERY GOOD. Maybe we'll get the ending someday. ^ I loved this book. I ,like many others, read Blankets first and fell in love with it. So I was very excited to read this. I was captivated the whole time. Its a great story. I was really looking forward to where it was going. But as I started nearing the last 2 or 3 pages I started to realize that there are not enough pages to wrap things up. And before I knew it It ended. It really does feel like the last 10 pages were stolen from the book. Like I said its a great read it just leaves something to be desired.
A Master-Piece! ^ Having read "Blankets" a month ago, and having been spiritually floored by it, I thought I was obligated to get to this book. Sure enough, that is Craig Thompson's wonderful style, which I love, and sure enough, again, this was emotionally tense and rich.
"Good-Bye Chunky Rice" is something of a contemporary fairy-tale - by which I do not mean the usually neutered conception we have of them, but the real thing; the raw and painful thing - and it is simply beautiful.
This book is visually a success, and the words are fantastic too. It is, on the whole, a mighty little book. Craig Thompson definitely is a contemporary genius and I can't wait to read and view more of his work.
Good, but not great ^ I have become a big fan of Craig Thompson, but I think I read his books in the wrong order. I started with his Carnet De Voyage (Travel Journal), which is his most recent work. That got me interested in the book for which he was on tour, Blankets. As a newbie to graphic novels, I was completely blown away by Blankets which is more of a memoir than novel. So I felt compelled to get Good-bye, Chunky Rice, Mr. Thompson's first book. The characters, the writing, and the visual style are good, but not nearly as interesting to me as the other two books.
Sweet, sweet, poignant and sweet ^ It's been a while since I read this, but it still echoes in my memory as such an amazing, deceptively simple tale of crossing paths and lonely hearts. Chunky Rice, our turtle hero, is dealing with the longing for the unknown and the pain of leaving the life that is familiar but not satisfying some deep need.
It says so much with so little, and expresses some of the subtle agony of life so beautifully.
Poignant story of leaving and love ^ Good-bye Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson is the tender story of the eponymous turtle who leaves his beloved mouse friend Dandele to go away. Where Chunky Rice goes is never defined, but he is driven by his need to leave. The story is told with many flashbacks and cut-aways to supporting characters. The strange man who helps Chunky with his luggage is a pathetic man whose abuse by his father and siblings has left him haunted. Dandele speaks in beautifully turbulent poetry comparing her anguish at the loss of Chunky to the stormy waves of the sea. She tosses countless bottles into the sea, pouring out her heart in hopeful and hopeless SOS's to Chunky. Meanwhile, Chunky is on a small ship with a crude captain, conjoined twins, and a slatternly cook. The storm the ship encounters on the way seems almost too metaphorical for the changes in the passengers' lives. While the artistry is almost a little too charming, the story's dreamlike telling is compelling and poignant. I look forward to reading more of Thompson's works.
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