Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink': A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Edition: Original
- Author: Bill Watterson
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Release Date: January 1991
- ISBN-10: 0836218787
- ISBN-13: 9780836218787
- List Price: $12.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryIn just over five years of syndication, Calvin and Hobbes has become an American comic strip sensation - touching the hearts (and funny bones) of the millions who read the award-winning strip. One look at the new Calvin and Hobbes collection and it is immediately evident that Bill Watterson's imagination, wit, and sense of adventure continue to be unmatched. In this collection, comprised of cartoons never before published in book form, Calvin and his tiger-striped sidekick Hobbes are hilarious whether the two are simply lounging around philosophizing about the future of mankind or plotting their latest money-making scheme. Chock-full of the familiar adventures of Spaceman Spiff, the latest findings of Dad's popularity poll, and time travel to the Jurrassic Age, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink" is guaranteed to set scientific inquiry back an ean - and advance the reading pleasure of all Calvin and Hobbes fans. |
Customer Reviews
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Another Calvin & Hobbes Classic
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Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes is a rare treat to the American entertainment world. It's a classic comic strip about a six year old mischievous boy and his make believe best friend: the stuffed tiger, Hobbes. I've been rereading all of the books in this series throughout my life, and I never tire of them. Watterson's magnificent blend of simple childhood humor, advanced appropriate grown-up humor, make-believe and childhood realism make this well written and illustrated comic strip a treasure to have in any household. Both adults and children will love it.
What's worse than one troublesome six year old boy? Answer, 6 of them! All due to Calvin's new device: the duplicator. Now Calvin is getting a taste of his own medicine as his clones are causing trouble with his parents, and Calvin is getting blamed. This is all part of Calvin's imagination, of course, but the storyline reads just as any good sci-fi novel would. This book also features 2 stories with Calvin and his dreaded baby-sitter: Rosalyn. Both are hilarious as Calvin pushes Rosalyn to her limits with his troublesome ways.
This book explores many humorous aspects to the life of a six year old boy. His hatred of school and girls, his wild imagination which at times will cause him to morph into his alter-ego: Spaceman Spiff, and the hindrance of having loving parents who want him to be responsible. I highly recommend!
Darien Summers, author of The Mischievous Hare, a children's book.
Funny and Ingenious
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Calvin and Hobbes are my favorite caricatures. This book have a good collection of Calvin's mischievings.
I recommend this book to relax, laught and remember our childhood with a humor twist.
Scientifc Progress goes Boink: Calvin and Hobbes
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Arrived on time and in good condtion. If you like the other Calvin and Hobbes books get this one too1
Calvin & Hobbes
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I was disappointed with the book. The seller said it was in great condition. It wreaked of oldness! It seriously stinks so bad, literally. I am guessing it has sat in someone's basement or attic for ages. Gross!
Why is it good? Because it works.
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This sixth installment of the "Calvin and Hobbes" series is as great as "Yukon Ho!" and "Weirdos from Another Planet". Here we get to see more of Calvin's adventures as Spiff, Stupendous Man, and the debut of Tracer Bullet. I especially like the three-week long sequence in which Calvin walks upside down, and then grows bigger every second! Then, there's the famous duplicate sequence, in which Calvin duplicates himself, which is a lot of fun to read repeatedly.
This is one of two comic (the other being "Garfield") that I'll always enjoy reading.
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