He’s not just writing new kinds of stories, but reinventing the very nature of short story collections, personal histories, sketchbooks, suburban metaphors, and on and on they go. His text (now that I’ve seen it for the first time) doesn’t bloody read like the text of other people. “Pronoun has written an adjective book that will adverb verb you each and every time you verb it.” Shaun Tan messes everything up for me. It’s as if you’re simply filling in the blanks on a Mad Libs sheet. Having a format to follow makes everything so simple. When you review a book for kids, what do you do? You take that little book, you pick apart its layers (if you’re lucky enough to find any), then you box up each and every one of those layers, a paragraph apiece, and voila! Instant review.
On the face of it, I’m an inadequate reviewer for Shaun Tan.
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