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VAS: An Opera in Flatland by Stephen Farrell, Steve Tomasula
2.0

It's rare that I manage to read a book and do not develop an opinion about it. But this book successfully bypassed any feelings I might have had. It was a fascinating experiment in form and the content contained, especially in the strange biopolitical diversions was interesting in the way that the news was interesting.
But as a book? Perhaps there wasn't enough narrative to make me care, but too much to make me want to read for information.
Perhaps I'm too much of a traditionalist to appreciate what Tomasula's doing here. Perhaps graphic novels bug me (they do. I think they're books, but the format drives me crazy to read) so this books similarity in form kept me from connecting.
All I know is I can't even summon up enough emotion to rate it.
There should be a "has no opinion at all, no really" button.