Talk:Blankets (graphic novel)

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I thank everyone who put their efforts into making this page. I especially thank Fritz Saalfeld who added the rest of the editing procedures like the split up of the plot summarization and the TOC (table of contents) to the front for quick linkage. I worked for about five or six hours on the summarization as a whole, but again, I believe this to now be a complete Wiki! Tekus 20:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

• I disagree. I appreciate the effort involved, but this plot summary is unnecessarily long. A single medium-sized paragraph for the entire novel should be fine. Anyone who has read the book already knows the plot, and anyone who hasn't will have the experience spoiled for them by reading such an exhaustive retelling. If this lengthy synopsis were in service to some other end, like an analysis of Thompson's storytelling techniques, then that would be a different situation. But this is just plot summary for the purpose of plot summary, of which I am deeply suspicious. For a work like Ulysses, Wikipedia does a great service in providing structure to a bewildering and time-consuming work. Blankets, on the other hand, is perfectly comprehensible on a single reading - indeed, that's one of its strongest points - and I feel this exhaustive retelling does the book a disservice. -leigh (φθόγγος) 17:58, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

• True, it is a bit long, but just as the warning suggests, Plot Summary and Spoiler. The intent of this article is mainly used for those who would be researching any of Thompson's works. Just like many "encyclopedia" articles, such articles are written to inform those doing research about the specifics of their subject. Blankets is not a comic book, it is a graphic novel. I see that most who look upon this article are comic book oriented. Comic books are series, not novels that tell a story. The summarization of this novel is not to present an introduction, like you would for a comic book wiki, but rather to show you what the book is about. Yes, the novel is clearly read through the first time, but for those who would like the substance of it all transcribed into words, well, here it is. Dave 14:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)