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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 1112269" data-attributes="member: 527">I finished The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay over my vacation.  I picked it up because people were talking about Chabon's other books and because this one won the Pulitzer Prize.  He's an excellent writer, very vivid prose and the ability to shift style gears when called for (or was it just my imagination that the wartime chapters were much more Catch 22 absurdist surrealism than any other part of the book?)  Anyway, it traces the lives of two young men who form produce comic books during the golden age of pulps.  It's an interesting time and an interesting book.In other book news, I went to the Hugo awards as part of my vacation.  Hominids by Robert Sawyer won the best novel.  Personally, I can't stand Sawyers work (and I thought it was ironic that GRR Martin - who got jacked out of a well deserved Hugo last year by Harry Potter #4 - presented this years equally mistaken award) but a significant number of voters liked the book so it's obviously some people's cup of tea even if it's not mine.  I also finished the Robert Silverberg Best of Science Fiction... anthology on the plane.  As always some hits and some misses.  I believe this is the last year this anthology is going to be published - it only lasted two years going head-to-head with the more established Hartwell and Dozios anthologies.</blockquote>