I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.
This month's Humble Bundle was rather heavy on Frankenstein retellings. Dean Koontz, he played a part in Monster's Ball, and this. It's a modern day love story, but also uses Frankenstein's monster as a central character.
The thing is that the most compelling aspect is the love story, the artistry - not only in the writing and the painted art itself, or the mixed media aspect, but also in the way the narrative and characters explore art itself and the meaning and value of art.
It's beautiful. The watercolors are some of the most lovely narrative art I've seen, although it's photographs and journal entries are interposed, creating a beautiful sense of narrative within the art itself.
It's ambitious, and this may be my favorite aspect of this story. It doesn't dumb anything down, it simply goes in, expecting the reader to stay with all he twists and turn and discussions about philosophy and art and to get what this story is and where it's going.
And I like being treated like I'm smart enough to get it, I really, really do. I'm clever enough to get the ambition of this piece, and I appreciate it for like treating me like I'm intelligent.