Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

by Frederik Peeters

Book Overview

An intimate, poetic and accessible graphic memoir very much in the tradition of works by Marjane Satrapi, Craig Thompson and Alison Bechdel. One summer night at a teenage house party, Fred met Cati.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 061882099X
• ISBN13: 9780618820993
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 4.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Awesome Book. Short, funny and Worth it.

Without giving much away, Blue pills is a story of a guy who falls in love with a girl with AIDS. She has a son and he also has AIDS. It is a funny story into the complexities of their relationship, the inner struggle that the protagonist finds himself in and the coping and methods they must endure. It is very relaxed and free written. Its a really short book, lots and lots of pictures. I love the artistry in them. Once you pick it up, you dont want to put it down till you finish. The best part about it... ITS A POSITIVE LOVE STORY. Not a sappy one.. or a sad one.. or a dramatical one.. Its just Positive. Check out my short rap video that I did as an assignment for class about the book: :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q_ullj9KR4 BUY IT AND ENJOY! ITS A KEEPER!

Fun Read

A fun and enjoyable read all through. To light and inconsequential of a book for it to deserve 5 stars, and the translation is not extraordinary, just ok.

Poignant but not over-sentimental

Given the tough (and not-so-commonplace) nature of the story - living and having a relationship with two individuals who are sero-positive (HIV-positive), I believe the story could not have been told in words alone as a memoir without getting melodramatic or overly-sentimental. But through the medium of a graphic novel, Frederik Peeters takes us on an interesting journey - through his own feelings and anxieties as life presents some interesting new questions of him through his relationship with Cati and her son. Everything a good graphic novel should be. Creative drawing, a good story - full of anxiety, angst, dreams, surreal, love, pain: a tribute to life itself. One hopes things turn out well for Peeters and Cati. also read the guardian article about "how to make a cartoon drama out of a crisis" http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar/23/culture.features

Beautiful

A really special book. It's a wonderful fit for the graphic novel genre, the line quality continuing the tone of the story -- shaky, nervous, undefined. This book is a rare work of art, with an original and painfully honest story. Simply beautiful.