The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson
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Book Reviews of The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Book Review: Another anthology of laughter
Summary: 5 Stars
Whether the collection is the "Indispensible" or "Essential" or "Authoritative" Calvin and Hobbes, it doesn't really matter. Watching this hyperactive, hyperimaginative child and his willing though wise accomplice, Hobbes, take on evil babysitters, Susie Derkins, the class bully and all creatures (real or imaginary), is a pleasure and laughter without stop. "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes" is another in a long list of the great comic work of Bill Watterson. This is an indispensible/essential/authoritative collection for all Calvin and Hobbes and humor fans!Book Review: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
Summary: 5 Stars
Calvin and Hobbes is definitely the funniest comic I have ever read in my life. It is way funnier than Garfield and Peanuts. Anyways, about this book, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, it has to be one of the funniest books I ever read. This book features some of their funniest adventures including the one where Calvin uses the payphone to call his dad @ 3 A.M.(pg. 29) or the one where Hobbes dresses up like Calvin (pg. 47) or one of my favorites the one where Calvin and Hobbes go to Susie's birthday party(pg. 202). Calvin and Hobbes is a must read on a rainy day or in the car or anytime at all.Book Review: Still funny after all these years...
Summary: 5 Stars
The newspaper strip has been gone for quite a few years now, but our boy Calvin and his stuffed (yet sometimes alive) tiger Hobbes have not lost their edge. I recently re-read this book for the first time in four or five years, and it holds up very well. Laughter is great medicine for body and soul, and an hour or two inside the covers of this one makes a person feel much, much better. A nice gift book for someone recuperating from surgery or an illness. Thanks, Bill Watterson...you have brought joy to so many who can't thank you in person!Book Review: Is an angry Muscovite called a Moscowler?
Summary: 5 Stars
I own every Calvin and Hobbes ever published, including all of the treasuries containing excerpts from the yearly compilations. Of course, that is a bit redundant, but for some reason I enjoy reading through the treasuries almost as much as I enjoy reading the sequential comics in the compilations. I would reccomend getting all the books and saving the treasuries for after you have them all. One treasury I especially like is the tenth anniversary book, and I would reccomend that be your first collection after buying all the compilations.Book Review: Calvin And Hobbes Rule.
Summary: 5 Stars
Some of the early works of Bill Watterson. This is a great book tracing the irrepressible Calvin and his "pet" tiger, Hobbes. As he has explained, Bill Watterson will slowly develop this character in accuracy and style over the next seven years. Great repartie and pranks are pulled by this duo on the always weary Mom and Dad and a battle of wills with his steel hard babysitter, Rosalyn, makes a great couple of interludes.
Still, a great book and for Calvin and Hobbes fans, a must in your collection.