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Books : The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys" (P.S.) |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061673245
ISBN: 0061673242
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 01, 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: February 03, 2009
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 837441
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Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be -- well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can't resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty -- chiefly, his own. Written in sharp, witty prose and peppered with absorbing ruminations on graphic design, The Learners again shows that Chip Kidd's writing is every bit as original, stunning, and memorable as his celebrated book jackets.
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I agree with the other reviewers... if I hadn't loved "The Cheese Monkeys," I never would have read this book, but I'm glad I did, because it was excellent. For those who don't like Kidd's writing style, it could get annoying, but for those who do, it's another gem. Overall a great novel, very fast read, makes you think about psychology a little bit too.
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If you've read The Cheese Monkeys and you liked it, you'll definitely like this, because it just follows on from where that novel left off. Which is, on the whole, a good thing.
It means that for those of us who are graphic designers, we get to read the second novel (okay maybe there are more but I don't know about them) about a graphic designer. That's pretty cool for designers. If you're not a designer then I don't think it matters since designers probably read novels about policemen ... Read More
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...unless you read The Cheese Monkeys first. I was familiar with Mr. Kidd's graphic design for some time, and saw him speak at the Gravity Free Conference. It was such an enjoyable talk I ordered The Cheese Monkeys online, and it was waiting for me on my arrival home. I was out of town all week and thought I would just read a few chapters before bed. The way I figure it Kidd owes me a good nights sleep. When I finished the book I waited a few hours and went out and bought The Learners, devouring ... Read More
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I had high hopes for this book after reading a review in Newsweek. Unfortunately it did not live up to my expectations. The author uses so many adjectives to describe everything that I felt like I was reading a high school English student's composition.
Gimmicks abound from little asides like what metaphor, and content are, to the names of the characters, like "Sketch", and "Tip"!
Speaking of characters beyond the descriptive adjectives, they are undeveloped, and as a reader, I could care ... Read More
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"The Learners," a sequel to Kidd's "The Cheese Monkeys," is a fascinating read, multilayered and extraordinarily original in its execution.
Our hero, Happy, has graduated from university and has head to New Haven, not for graduate studies at Yale, but to seek a job with the advertising firm that gave his favorite professor his start. Once ensconced at the agency the author introduces a motley assortment of characters and types he draws with lacerating wit and skill. Presented in sections labeled ... Read More
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780061673245
ISBN: 0061673242
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: February 01, 2009
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: February 03, 2009
Studio: Harper Perennial
Sales Rank: 837441
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