Word: cutefulness
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...romance with the moody, volatile Lexy and an intermittently engaging subplot about a secret cabal of researchers bent on endowing dogs with the power of speech using Gothically gruesome surgical techniques. This is totally implausible, but it helps reduce the novel's Q factor a little--Q for cute and quirky. Lexy and Paul meet cute, at a kitschy yard sale. She makes papier-mache masks for a living; she loves Disney World; she calls phone psychics; she is obsessed with puzzles; and so on. Either you go for this kind of thing...
...novel, but its flawlessness is also its biggest flaw. It's too pretty: it lacks the messiness of reality, and as a result it feels smaller than life, like a nifty short story spun out to feature length, a tragedy staged in a shoebox. It's the difference between cute and beautiful. What The Dogs of Babel lacks is the raw, sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike blinking back shocked tears, shaking our heads and wondering...
...floating, derby-hatted octopus deity who toots out musical notes and many, many more. Bell then crams as many of these characters as he can into these stories, making them teem with life. Little critters run around in the corners of panels just doing their own thing. Kinetic and cute, Bell's art looks like no other, combining silly excess with a clarity of design and arrangement. Occasionally he will even surprise you with a visually daring cutaway-style panel that, for example, shows both the exterior and interior of Paul's nipple, where his brother Saul lives...
Kristi: The thought of cheerleading doesn’t bother me. I love to dance and jump around. I have really cute little green shorts. I’m secure in my cheer-ulinity...
...They’re not, you know posed pictures,” she says. “They’re of people having fun. There’s this one cute picture of three little kids in a row—you know, classic kid stuff. It just makes you realize this is someone who’s very grounded...