After his Kavalier & Clay debacle, I can't bring myself to read anything that defecates from his pen. That book was the only one I've ever wanted to burn...followed by my eyes for having read it

Awful is nowhere near a big enough word, IMHO.

I do not understand how that won any accolades or prizes.

I just thought the whole thing was uninspired drek.  He clearly took a heavy template from the golden age heavies...I thought a lot was thinly veiled Lee-Kirby...and added absolutely nothing to it.  Personally, I thought all the crap he added made it miserable, and at the end of the whole thing he brought nothing novel to the literary field.  He would have been better served just writing a history of the comic book field, rather than wasting time on trying to add his imprint...which I found worthless on every level, and obnoxiously over the top on others...to other individual's histories.

I know a lot of people (obviously) loved the book, but to date, that book is the biggest piece of sh*t I've ever wasted time in my life reading.

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Not really my kind of thing, the analysis and the writing just seemed over the top on some levels. Though I did find it interesting that he chose to ignore Christopher Reeves' Superman costume which was faithful and looked perfect.

That might be the only superhero costume that Hollywood got right.

I'll allow Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman a distant fourth -- tho that's mostly for content.

"Tho that's mostly for content."

Okay, that made me laugh. Excellent content in that costume indeed.

Though not normally my habit, Kavalier and Clay was one of the few books I didn't actually finish.  I usually give a book a hundred pages to pull me in, but K&C never did.  Interestingly, all my non-comic book reading friends "thought" of me when they read it.