Author: Henrik Drescher
Genre: Fantasy / Graphic Novel
Year Published: 2001
Date Read: 6/26/2008
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Source: Library
Content Rating: Ages 18+ (Sexual Imagery and Frightening Imagery)
Buy or Add on: Amazon // Goodreads
*Original Rating: 5 stars*
*Rating Now: 4 stars*
Now, you are probably wondering why I have changed the
rating of Henrik Drescher’s log
book, “Turbulence: A Log Book,” but
before I get into that, I like to give out my opinion on this book. “Turbulence:
A Log Book” is a graphic novel book written and illustrated by Henrik Drescher and it details the
adventures of a man who goes through a mythical journey that reflects his
life. “Turbulence: A Log Book” may have some really creative
illustrations, but the story is a bit too confusing for many readers to
understand.
Alright, so I practically have to go search all over the internet just
to figure out what this book is all about and so here is the summary I have
gathered from the internet:
The book starts off with a bespectacled man who is boarding
a cruise ship and he brings an unknown valise with him on the ship. When the man opens the case, it turns out
that a smaller version of the boat that he is on is in the case and the man
starts taking a bath with the ship near him.
The next few pages details the man’s strange journey through the eyes of
the boat as the man’s adventures is portrayed through frightening visions that
echoes Hindu mythology.
Now I have been reading Henrik
Drescher’s works for many years now, but I have never read anything so DISTURBING, CONFUSING and dare I say
it, SEXUAL from his work! This book was definitely different from any
other book I have read from Henrik
Drescher and I really did enjoy the darker shift that this book had since I
love reading books that have a different style of their own. Henrik
Drescher had done an excellent job at illustrating this book as he uses a
mixture of both hand drawings and collage to tell the story and I loved the way
that Henrik Drescher’s illustrations
are so dark and disturbing and ADULT
ORIENTED! The illustrations give this book a truly dark twist to what we
perceive of Hindu mythology and I also loved the surreal feel of the illustrations,
especially of the images of a man with another smaller head on his head and an
image of a man with a cage full of skulls on his head. I loved the way that Henrik Drescher had woven Hindu mythology into the story, which
helped give the story an extremely creative flair.
Just a little warning to anyone interested in reading this
book…
THIS IS NOT A BOOK
FOR CHILDREN!
Even the image of a green skinned man on the front of the
cover is enough to warn children that this book is definitely not for them. The reason why this book is not geared
towards children is because there are many sexual images in this book,
including images of characters being naked and performing explicit sexual
activities. Also, the illustrations are
truly disturbing and nightmarish and even I had trouble trying to get through
this book because of the nightmarish imagery, so small children might never be
able to get through this book because of the imagery. Also, this book is difficult to understand
since the story seems to be disjointed a bit on every page, which is why I
moved the rating down from a five star rating to a four star rating. Also, anyone
who does not have a clear understanding of Hindu mythology might be a bit
confused by the premise of this book. I
often had a difficult time understanding this book because the words were also
written in a way that was making it difficult to read as they seem littered all
over the pages and I could not see the text very well when it was set up like
that.
Great review. I am going to have to look for this in the bookstore. I'd never heard of this graphic novel and I'm definitely intrigued.
ReplyDeleteIt's really a great graphic novel! You should definitely check it out!
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