This was among my favorite Book Chat books, and I highly recommend it. Unfortunately, no one who'd read the book made the chat, so it was cancelled. Comments below were made after the fact.
150 said...I appreciated that even with the superhero focus, he still made room to mention my favorite vintage genre of comics, the romance.
Zachary Gole said...He did his research on comics very thoroughly, I think, and aside from the invention of Empire Comics and the other work of the titular protagonists, he stuck pretty close to fact. Romance comics were an important part of the industry at the time, so it made sense they'd be mentioned in the book.
One thing I thought was interesting is that Michael Chabon apparently likes making up his own words. There were a few words I didn't recognize and on Googling them (after failing to find them in a dictionary) I discovered that the reason I didn't recognize them was because Chabon had (by his own admission) invented them. Three I remember were "aetataureate", "cheminations", and "busculation", though there may have been more.
Ah, yes, here's an article online where he makes some reference (in the last footnote) to his invented words, though I don't think all the words he lists there are from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay—I gather that he's slipped invented words into some of his other works as well. As someone who also occasionally enjoys inventing his own words, I appreciated knowing there was a successful and respected author who shared my proclivity.
ril said...All of Chabon's works will become available as e-books from now into 2012:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/michael-chabon-e-book-rights-153304102.html
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