Not only do I love both Vivian and Kepler’s, but I can also say that I love Christos Papadimitriou. When Vivian asked me to review Logicomix, I readily agreed. Petersburg heading home to San Francisco, so I have some time. As I type, I am on a Lufthansa flight from St.My dear friend Vivian Leal of Kepler’s Bookstore asked me to review this book.I am a practiced blogger, so I can emulate authority on any subject.I have a fancy degree in theoretical computer science centered mainly on the works of those logicians portrayed in this story.Here are my only qualifications for writing this review: If that violates some rule, I wouldn’t know because I am in no way a professional book reviewer. So if the Logicomix creative team can be characters writing their story as it goes, then I can do the same in this review. By the end Christos and we together come to understand that LogiComix is deliberately not LOGIC FOR DUMMIES, but rather a true story about passion, family, war, love, tragedy and hope. As the story unfolds, the creative team debate how to best move it forward. When Apostolos tells Christos the story he’d like to craft, we, the readers, get to hear it too! Along the way, Christos asks questions, points out problems, and makes suggestions to Apostolos as well as to his illustrators Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna. As we intrude upon his thoughts, he invites us to meet Berkeley computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou, whom Apostolos must recruit to help him with the book.

For example, the prologue opens with co-author Apostolos Doxiadis reading a draft of his story. Three chapters into it, I’m captivated and enchanted by the playful, clever, innovative use of self-reference. But Logicomix is - er, unusual, and not just because it’s a graphic novel about a dead logician. Normally I’d wait until I finish reading a book before I write my review.

Logicomix by apostolos doxiadis