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J GRAPHIC NOVEL HER
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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (1975), 62 pages
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The classic graphic novel. Car engines have started spontaneously exploding all over the country . . . someone's been tampering with the oil! Tintin, with Thompson and Thompson at his side, sails on an oil tanker to the Middle East to track down the source of the faulty oil.
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LibraryThing member SDando
Tintin and his adventures are highly amusing! As a second-language learner, I found this book easy to understand, even with words I did not know.
LibraryThing member izzymcdizzy
I do not particularly enjoy graphic novels but it was interesting to read this one. My brother always read the tin tin books so I was curious to see what they were like. The premise of the story is a company "autocart" is using bad gasoline to gain business. Tin tin is trying to get to the bottom
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LibraryThing member GraceZ
Just finished this book, which I read in short segments over the past week or so. Feel a little pathetic, posting it on goodreads, but these Tintin books! They mean something different each time, largely because you start reading them as a kid and later grow to understand them better, or at least
Anyway, this one is interesting because it's about... oil! And war over oil! Sound familiar? Anyway, always fun, as Tintin is.
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differently. Anyway, this one is interesting because it's about... oil! And war over oil! Sound familiar? Anyway, always fun, as Tintin is.
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LibraryThing member humouress
23) [Tintin Land of Black Gold] by Hergé
Just to bump my reading numbers I 'happened' to read this as I was entering it on my kids' LT account.
The usual romp with the famous boy reporter and his brave dog, Snowy, along with Captain Haddock and the Thomson (Thompson?) twins. This time the adventure
There's a bit of slapstick, as usual, which even Tintin and poor old Snowy don't escape, bumping into things for instance. And there's a six year old spoiled son of the emir who inadvertently saves the day, despite his best intentions.
While you do have to bear in mind that it was first published in 1950 and is to some extent a product of its time (cars, radio operators, phone boxes, aeroplanes) it still has relevance in this day and age.
Fun. A pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
4**** stars
Just to bump my reading numbers I 'happened' to read this as I was entering it on my kids' LT account.
The usual romp with the famous boy reporter and his brave dog, Snowy, along with Captain Haddock and the Thomson (Thompson?) twins. This time the adventure
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sees them on a tanker to the port of Khemikhal in the Middle East where Tintin investigates a case of sabotage to the world's oil supply which is causing cars to explode, oil prices to fall and threatening to result in a world war. Needless to say, there are lots of inflammatory double entendres.There's a bit of slapstick, as usual, which even Tintin and poor old Snowy don't escape, bumping into things for instance. And there's a six year old spoiled son of the emir who inadvertently saves the day, despite his best intentions.
While you do have to bear in mind that it was first published in 1950 and is to some extent a product of its time (cars, radio operators, phone boxes, aeroplanes) it still has relevance in this day and age.
Fun. A pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
4**** stars
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ISBN
0316358444 / 9780316358446