American Born Chinese

I found this book to be kind of interesting and I must say so far that I enjoy reading this book ALOT more than I enjoyed reading McClouds book about comics. I like the fact that this book is more dialouge, and actually telling a story compared to McClouds (which I felt like was more comparable with a historical novel than something you would read to tell a story). The part of the book that I liked so far was the panel about the king monkey, who no longer wanted to be a monkey anymore. I thought it was interesting how the author kind of incorporated God into it (the creator of the monkey who tries to explain to him that, he was born a monkey and a monkey he shall be). I thought it was funny how the monkey tried to escape, and not only peed on the pillars which later turned out to be his creators fingers, but he also carved his name into one of them. The book shows how the monkey flew past the planets and stars, past the universe, and pass the boundries of reality itself and he still couldn't escape the reach of his creator. I also liked the fact that when the monkey disobeyed, the creator punished him and basically buried him underneath a bunch of rocks for some rediculous amount of time, 500 years or something like that. All in all I would definatley have to say that my opinion of this book so far is very good, and I look forward to finishing it.