In The Shadow of No Towers

At first I really didn't like this graphic novel because of all the narrations and the fact that there was so much to interpret and so much to try and understand. The narrations made it hard for me to follow because you would get into one thought and then you would have to quickly move on to something else, which is something that I am not use to in books, you are given atleast a little warning or a closing when you move from one thought to another. There was also a lot that you could leave to imagination, lots that you could infer about and come up with you own conclusions. I am the type of person where if you want me to catch something I would like to see it straight up, I don't mind inferences but there was so much symbolism that I thougtht it was overtaking. So when we first started this book I was not very interested, the text was dense and it was like pulling teeth, but as the illustrations progressed I found that I was more into the book and I could relate to the what the pictures were showing me more, I could place myself in the text and understand what the author was trying to depict within the graphics. I found that the more I could relate to the pictures the more I got into the book. It is definatley not something that I would have read on my own or rather picked up on my own. But I can see it's pertinance to this clas and why it would be a good introduction to interpreting graphic novels.