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Gijs Grob

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I'm a Dutchman with a passion for animation film. Since 2009 I write for my own blog on animation films called Dr. Grob’s Animation Review, which now has over 1,500 entries and 5,000 visitors a month.

As a reader I aim to read a great variety of books, from all ages and continents. I particularly favor tales that have inspired other artists like painters, composers and film makers.

interests: animation film, astronomy, classics, European comics, evolution, graphic novels, history, literature, music, mythology, paleontology, poetry, science, silent cinema ...more

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Mickey's Movies: The Theatrical Films of Mickey Mouse
by

Gijs Grob (Goodreads Author),

Bob McLain (editor)

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions

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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

by Tom Shippey

bookshelves: 20th-century, biography, english, non-fiction, 1980s, currently-reading

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The Nine Old Men: Lessons, Techniques, and Inspiration from Disney's Great Animators

by Andreas Deja

bookshelves: 2010s, 21st-century, animation, english, non-fiction, currently-reading

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De pianiste

by Elfriede Jelinek

bookshelves: 1980s, 20th-century, female-author, fiction, german, nobel-prize-winners, novels, austrian-literature, currently-reading

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