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    All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition

    By Andrew Kaufman

    3.5/5

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    All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, she's sure that Tom has abandoned her. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With noidea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's visible, or he loses her forever. The tenth anniversary edition of Andrew Kaufman's perennial favourite, All My Friends Are Superheroes , includes a new catalogue of superheroes and gorgeous illustrations by Tom Percival.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoach House Books
    Release dateOct 16, 2003
    ISBN9781770560093
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    All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition
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    Andrew Kaufman

    Andrew Kaufman was born in Wingham, Ontario, making him the second-most-famous Canadian writer to come from Wingham (after Alice Munro, of course). He is the author of international bestseller All My Friends are Superheroes, The Waterproof Bible, ReLit Award-winner The Tiny Wife, and Born Weird, which was named a Best Book of the Year by The Globe and Mail and was shortlisted for the Leacock award for humor. He lives and writes in Toronto.

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    • 4/5
      Just a smart little novella about Tom and The Perfectionist and their relationship. What makes this book truly insightful are all the secondary characters and their superpowers. What would your superpower name be?
    • 4/5
      I like a quirky story, and this novella by Andrew Kaufman is that. I’d picked up the quirky premise from the blurb on its Amazon page — that the protagonist, Tom, is invisible to his wife since their wedding and has until a plane lands in Vancouver to make her see him — but it’s a bit more quirky than that, even.At about four pages in, I had to put the book down, saying to myself, ‘I’m not gonna be able to read this. That’s too surreal. It’s gonna grate on me.’ (This point was when we learn about TV Girl.) Thankfully, I picked it back up again, determined to give it a fairer chance than just four pages. After just another two pages, I had adjusted to the crazy world of superheroes and was happily whooshing through the book at superhuman speed.I find it difficult to catagorize this story. The best I can do is: contemporary semi-surrealist fantasy romance. I think it’s really its own thing, which is a wonderful thing to be in today’s market. It’s a short book anyway, but it was the quickest and easiest read I’ve had for a long time, which is a good sign, coming from me. I love rulebreakers, and Kaufman gleefully ignores the advice to avoid ‘flashbacks’, but he manages to get away with flashbacks within flashbacks, so kudos there.Rating: 4.2, not least due to its boldness, originality, clean text, economy, and sweetness.
    • 3/5
      This short book is literally about people with superpowers who live normal everyday lives. They don't seem to fight crime. Many of their powers are of the variety you wouldn't actually want, causing more trouble then they're worth. Besides the main character, Tom a normal, and his wife The Perfectionist, the characters are more descriptions of the powers they have, rather then fleshed out individuals. I smiled a few times at the amusing powers and situations they left their owners in. I'd have liked to see the premise explored a bit more. 2.5 stars.
    • 4/5
      Despite what it says in the blurb on the back of the book, this is pretty far from being what anyone might call a "novel." But as a lengthy short story, it's pretty charming.

      To be honest, though, a lot of it felt like a compilation of quirky ideas that would have benefited from a little fleshing out. The paragraph-long descriptions of superheroes, for example, would have been more interesting as actual characters with whom the protagonist was forced to interact, rather than merely a clever reappropriation of the mundane as extraordinary.

      Regardless, the story and main characters are interesting as is the author's ideas about what constitutes a superhero. Quirky, clever, charming ... just not long enough.

      Also, and this might seem a strange thing to say, but it's written on absolutely marvelous paper.
    • 4/5
      Quirky, funny and bittersweet - definitely worth a read!
    • 1/5
      Twee, voguish garbage for people who won't read proper novels and need to feel important. Probably the future of literature, sadly.
    • 4/5
      A man is on a flight to Vancouver with his new wife. He's invisible to her as she's been hypnotised by a previous boyfriend not to see him and he has the flight to make her see him, or his heart will break. There are (fairly minor) superheroes involved.This is a very sweet, but extremely surreal story, which I enjoyed very much - and left me feeling all warm and fuzzy (something I don't normally look for in a book)
    • 4/5
      A strange little book. A couple get married but the ex-boyfriend of the bride hypnotises her into thinking not being able to see her new husband. Everyone else can see him, but she thinks she has been ditched on their wedding night. The groom tries to save the relationship and the slight story is intercut with descriptions of his other friends who are "superheroes", which are the best parts of the book.
    • 2/5
      Read in about an hour while sitting in the Piccadilly Circus Waterstones. A bit twee.
    • 3/5
      This is a short (100 page) novel about the superheroes all around us. No Batman or Superman. No altruistic do-gooders, either. It's just that people have tragic flaws or personality traits that, left unchecked, can turn them into superheroes -- like the Perfectionist.This is a love story. Tom, who isn't a superhero, marries the Perfectionist. But, she's been hypnotized and can't see him. They are flying to Vancouver, and he has until the plane lands to make her see him, or he will lose her forever. How can an ordinary guy, with no super-powers succeed?This is quirky, entertaining and you will recognize some of the superheroes.