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Title	:	I Kill Giants (I Kill Giants #1-7)
Author	:	Joe Kelly
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 184 pages
Published	:	September 1st 2009 by Image Comics
Categories	:	Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Fantasy. Fiction. Young Adult. Graphic Novels Comics

I Kill Giants (I Kill Giants #1-7) Paperback | Pages: 184 pages

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This really grew on me. It had to. I started the book frustrated with Barbara, with her disconnect from the real world and total immersion in a fantasy world she's created, with her near inability to interact with the people around her. That's a bold thing that Kelly did, to start the reader off with an entirely outside perspective of Barbara, and only slowly reveal exactly what is going on inside her heart and mind, and what events in her life have caused her to react in this way. (view spoiler)[Her mother is dying of cancer, and Barbara refuses to accept that. Her giant killing fantasy is the way she's tried to construct an actual, material thing she can do to save her. (hide spoiler)] Once I understood her, and even earlier, when I was just beginning to see that there was something to understand, I became entirely absorbed in her story. In the end, this turned out to be a surprisingly moving and heart-felt story, and I'm very, very glad that I read it.

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ISBN:	1607060922 (ISBN13: 9781607060925)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	I Kill Giants #1-7
Characters:	Barbara Thorson
Setting:	United States of America Long Island, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	Lucca Comics & Games for Premio Gran Guinigi Miglior sceneggiatore (2011)

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***Indie 500 Buddy Read with the Shallow Readers! Indie Publisher this time: Image Comics***I'll admit: I was more than a little confused in the beginning.I was under the very false impression (because my mind really just made it up) that Barbara fought giants all the time because they were running rampant. I don't know why my brain went in that direction, but it did. So when she was the only one who believed in giants, I was baffled. But then things started making more sense. This isn't just a

Pretty awesome. I'm not usually a fan of manga-style or black and white artwork but this is great. (Although I do wish there was more black or, at best, a highlight color like red.) I Kill Giants is a surreal allegory (in the style of Joe the Barbarian) about Barbara Thorson, an angsty loner teen who deals with very bad things through fantasy. Or is it fantasy? This coming of age story is also about friendship, courage, bullies, allies, family, and the power of the imagination. Having been a

Barbara's a lonely girl, but she tries hard not to show it. Queen of the misfits, she loves fantasy books and D&D. And why shouldn't she? Her real life is no piece of cake. She's bored by school, has her own personal bully, and is coping with one very deep, dark secret. Though I wasn't overly crazy about the manga style artwork, this is a wonderful, touching story that should not be missed.

Whew. I put reading this book off because I knew it was going to wreck me. Reading it a second time, and in one go, was way more gut wrenching. That whole last chapter had me in straight-up tears. I knew the damn ending and I still cried. This book sets you up to have fun with some quirks but with a heavy, heavy cloud over head. How we get to the end is the most important part, and watching Barbara lose control, chapter after chapter, is the roughest part of the story. You know something bad

It's like A Monster Calls in graphic novel but the main character is mean this time.

"A giant comes to a place and destroys everything on its path. It's not like a dumb hurricane or something. A giant is hate. It can't stand anything good, so smashing isn't enough. A giant comes to a place and takes everything from you...and when it's done...it's like whatever made your life good was never there. That's why they have to die.""All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. To

I got the same feeling with this book that I did with "A Monster Calls", it was good, but not great.It is the story of a girl named Barbara who thinks she fights giants, the giants being a metaphor for something else of course. Her big sister is taking care of her and her brother, but Barbara does not have the best relationship with them as of late. Something has happened that has distanced them. It is a very well drawn piece of work, all in black and white. It might have been much better with