"The Invention of Hugo Cabret"
Oct. 2nd, 2007 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuOver Yom Tov, I saw a kid at shul reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic, 2007). It looked interesting, so I took it out of the library.
This is a truly wonderous book. By turns, it literally made me cry, gasp, and sit dumbstruck in slack-jawed amazement. Seeds subtly planted on early pages bear fruit later on, and I kept finding myself turning back to retrace their development. The concept behind the book is breathtakingly audacious; the execution is astounding.
To say anything else -- about the plot, about what makes the concept so ambitious, about the techniques that make this book unique -- would be a spoiler. All I'll say is this: As soon as you're done reading Winston Breen, get your hands on Hugo Cabret. I'm planning to buy my copy this weekend.
This is a truly wonderous book. By turns, it literally made me cry, gasp, and sit dumbstruck in slack-jawed amazement. Seeds subtly planted on early pages bear fruit later on, and I kept finding myself turning back to retrace their development. The concept behind the book is breathtakingly audacious; the execution is astounding.
To say anything else -- about the plot, about what makes the concept so ambitious, about the techniques that make this book unique -- would be a spoiler. All I'll say is this: As soon as you're done reading Winston Breen, get your hands on Hugo Cabret. I'm planning to buy my copy this weekend.