For a while, I was just sitting in my chair, probably looking like as if brain had been sucked out by an interdimentional space vacuum, thinking about what the Burn Journals would have looked like if it were a comic book rather than the novel it is. Unfortunately, the image I got in my head was not as satisfying as anything I saw in V for Vendetta or any of the weird Japanese stuff that pops up occasionally here and there.
I realized that this book is great as it is, and if it were to become a graphic novel, it would be much more repetitive and tedious. Instead of focusing on the words provided on Brent's emotions, we would sort of be forced into looking more at the images, which I would imagine to be pretty similar throughout the book entirely. Also, the images would give us a set environment instead of the usual imagination stuff I do when I read, causing the book to be rather devoid of expression. Or intended expression. Despite the more realistic portrayals in the form of images, our relatability with Brent as well as our understanding of his emotions would be cut substantially I believe, and that would not be something that the author would have wanted. But that might just be me talking. Maybe my brain has indeed been sucked out and none of what I'm saying makes any sense.
Rethinking about it, it might not be too bad. I might try some time.
On a similar note, I think the beginning, which has a rather depressing and sorrowful tone, would be able to be expressed much more effectively in a graphic way than the later portion of the book, where the key theme is life, appreciation, and other positive stuff that make your heart say hooray. As in, I think that after the few first days in the hospital, things would quickly get monotonous.
Again, I have to say that this book is very well written.
I like it.
Like garlic bread.
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