A sweet but inconsequential graphic novel about the life cycle of the salmon.

I love the oddball graphic novels that I find at my library. I'm not always willing to commit to yet another series but I'll pick up a stand alone book in a heartbeat. Salmon Doubts by Adam Sacks is one of my latest impulse picks.Salmon Doubts follows a school of salmon from hatching through spawning. As they grow up and form friendships one fish decides to question the purpose of life. He follows his own path, constantly questioning the accepted norms of salmon life.It's a short but thought pro...

I didn't think that a book about the life cycle of salmon would manage to eek any emotion out of me but the drawings are so stark and the meaning of the salmon life so pointless that this story manages to tug out melancholy from the array of emotive possibilities. I think I'd prefer a fanfiction account of Geoff's oceanic life but am still impressed that Sacks could provoke thought via salmon.

I liked this. It is a cute and interesting short read. It sort of felt like a music video.

I thought it would be a fun optional book to support a salmon unit, that would appeal to a diverse audience...but then it used the word "retarded" and well...no.

While I appreciate the art. It's not a piece I would go back to. The theme is neat and it makes the salmon cute vs scary. Feels like a storyboard for possibly something bigger but is really a lesson in the short lived life of Salmon

Fun little salmon story!

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

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I was hooked in the first couple pages, when shortly after hatch, two young salmon make friends and then salmon Henry is disappointed as his new friend swims off to meet other people.On the surface, yes, this book is exactly as it appears: a story about salmon having doubts. But it's also about life, about existence and existentialism. The two main characters, Geoff and Henry, swim through the ocean and try to decide if procreation is all one should aspire to, or if there's something else to liv...

Wow. Extremely simplistic yet incredibly philosophical. Starts with a fish hatching from the egg and ends with the same fish dying after spawning. This is the story of the friendship of Henry and Geoff. Henry follows the other salmon and has the same urges while Geoff is different, curious and wants to see the world. Simplistic discussions on the purpose and meaning of life and why bother living when you are going to die anyway. Through naive discussion they make salient observations. The art is...

this was adorable! i picked it up because the title was close enough to douglas adams' the salmon of doubt that i figured it must be intentional and the author must therefore have good taste, at least. it's a graphic novel about the socially inept young salmon, henry, and his friend, geoff, who thinks there might be more to life than spawning. i thought it was just going to be cute, but it was a very poignant story about the meaning of life. read an excerpt here.

The life cycle of a salmon serves as a metaphor for the human condition in Salmon Doubts. Fish struggle to survive hatching, make connections, be unique, explore the world around them, hit puberty, try to fit in, find a mate and return home to die. Focusing on basic questions such as “Why am I here?” this philosophical tale with its themes of identity and purpose in life will have special appeal to teens. Very highly recommended - a real quality addition to your graphic novel collections.

This book took approximately 10 minutes to read. It's a graphic novel - aka a comic book. I had to read a graphic novel for one of my grad. classes. This book depicts the life cycle of a salmon. It's told by a salmon who is supposed to be like a middle school aged boy... it's kind of funny. A bit different, but funny.

Salmon Doubts, you were fine, I didn't hate you. But I wanted to learn about salmon, and not about men (and ladies I guess) in general. Silly me, wanting to get educated. But it looked good, it's true. Just in the grand scheme of this comix binge it was a weaker one.

Uses the lifecycle of the salmon to explore life choice (for humans). A pair of salmon make friends and one follows the traditional path, and one chooses to skip the long hard road to spawn. Simple, nice. Well illustrated. Didn't get me excited, but definitely an interesting read.

Im not really sure what this book is trying to get back. It seems to me that being different is good, ans challenging the norm results in great adventure. Oh, and if you are a sperm, you need to be confidant to make a baby salmon...

They do all look alike. Henry, tho', is the doofus salmon, while his friend, Geoff, swims his own course. They run up against Louis, the lead salmon, and Henry tries to make time with Samantha. It turns out that Henry's sperm is as much a doofus as he is. Heh!

It was a great way to show themes and tensions in adolescence. I would highly recommend for teenagers to read this, it would be a great way to open a discussion. The pictures were clean and simple, and the coloring helped to show different areas of their world.

Not intended for kids, but juvenile in concept, art, dialog, execution, etc. I didn't find anything particularly compelling about the story or characters, and the artwork was nothing to get excited about.

Nothing profound. Worth a read.

Salmon have many hard life decisions to make. Or... perhaps this is some sort of crazy metaphor for all the hard life decisions people have to make! Oh no!

I read the whole thing while Charles was going to the gas station. I felt different from when he left!

A funny (but also a little sad) short about the simple lives of salmon.

Pretty, but fairly useless.

Simple, moving, beautiful allegory with gorgeous drawings.

Quite interesting settings, sharp style, modern thinking, but it doesn't push to something very meaningful and astonishing like Blankets. Anyway - a very decent book with some good ideas.

The title of this sparsely drawn graphic novels says it all. One salmon feels like he is the odd man out, while another salmon ponders if there is more to life than swimming upstream.

Interesting thoughts about the MEANING OF IT ALL BEYOND SPAWNING but ultimately a bit dull.

I think it was pretty ironic that the shallow thinkers died from shallow water.