Watchmen | Alan Moore | A real reading experience...

Watchmen | Alan Moore | Visually and Mentally Stimulating

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Watchmen

	Watchmen Alan Moore DC Comics, 1995 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 582 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A real reading experience...

I think most people can relate to being so busy with daily life that you have little or no time to read. Thank goodness for the graphic novel. This piece of literature is very well known and very highly regarded by many enthusiasts. I finally found out why. If you are a reader of novels, please don't assume this giant sized "comic book" can't deliver. I assure you it does. The artwork is very good and the story telling and character development is top notch.
Watchmen is more of a social and political commentary of the Cold War / Post Cold War Era. It focuses on the weaknesses and flaws of the masked heros of the time and shows how imperfect they are. It's very well done. The characters have great depth and stunning psychological profiles. The novel sucks you in right away and never let's you go.
Watchmen does tend to show it's age and the ending does get a little corny, but these are very minor complaints as you can see by me giving it five stars. I can't imagine the movie being able to do the book justice. We'll have to wait and see.
Highly recommended. Not for children.

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Visually and Mentally Stimulating

This graphic novel is the best of its kind. The story line and illustrations are beautifully merged to create one very entertaining work of literature. I can't wait till the movie comes out...hopefully it will represent this graphic novel well.

My first graphic novel....

While I was a huge comic fan as a kid, this was the first graphic novel I've read, and the first comic I've read in 8 years. It was a great reintroduction to a wonderful medium. I had always been more of a Marvel fan in my comic heyday, but DC held ingenuity I hadn't seen. The story is more believable than your traditional superhero vs. supervillian.

I decided to read "The Watchmen" after I heard that it had won a Hugo Award, and was on the Time list of top 100 novels. The Watchmen has set the bar high for graphic novels, and I look forward to dabbling more into this genre.

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Watching The Watchmen-will Hollywood destroy it

I do believe that this is a modern day classic work. It has been so long since I looked at anything like this. I have read Dostoevsky, Sartre, Camus, Nietzsche and many others. I cannot think why this work should be treated any differently. It is a work which makes you think. It also covers aspects of the graphic novel which can take you into the unreal or surreal. My only worry is that when Hollywood does it, it will destroy it, as it so often does, and disappoints us all by doing 'The Hollywood Ending', and in the process, put many people off enjoying the original...this book.

I came across this book on a BBC program. I believe the program was by Armando Ianucci, who I respect and realise to be very intelligent.

Anyway, I was intrigued enough by all the positives which were said in the program to seek Watchmen out. I checked out my local bookshop, and thought it a tad pricy for what is essentially a collection of graphic novels, which I used to read in my formative years. As I am now in my three hundredth year, I set about checking online for a better price.

Now I am a Scotsman, though now living in Ireland. I checked prices and decided to see if there would be any difference in price ordering from the Dubya country as opposed to UK or Ireland. I got a good deal from Amazon in US, though they said it was going to take three years to deliver. I did not care. I wanted it, and I got it... the next week, I think.

I was getting filthy looks from my family, due to lack of communication as my head was stuck in my 'comic', as my wife informed me, and my regression into childhood, which she then qualified as a condition I had never actually moved on from... this childhood thing.

The punchline, of course, is that I went into another shop the day after I finished Watchmen and saw it in the sale for a pound cheaper than I had paid for it.

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Score!

Book arrived in short order and in excellent condition. The panels are high-quality, four-color separations that pop off the page, and the story is one of the standout pieces of fiction among the hundreds of books in the genre I've read. "Watchmen" is worth the time it takes to read and enjoy the unfolding tale.
And Amazon, as usual, took good care of me. Thanks.

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