From Hell by Alan Moore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of From Hell
Book Review: Comic books aren't literature?....Bah!
Summary: 5 Stars
You really don't realize just how amazing this book is until you get to the end and read the appendices. These go over in detail every page of the graphic novel and circumstantiates the aspects of each panel. This isn't just a comic book. It's Alan Moore's view of what and why the murders occured and who the ripper was. This version is a result of Moore's own extensive investigations into the Whitechapel murders and he provides thorough evidence for his version of the story, all bound together in a graphic chronicle of the world's most famous unsolved murders. Not just for Ripperologists and comic geeks.Book Review: Credit to whom credit is due ...
Summary: 4 Stars
In light of the applause given to this particular author, the Freemason research - "a couple of Ph.d's worth" - was done by Stephen Knight in his 1988 book on the Whitechapel Murders. Knight died subsequent to proving the Freemasonic nature of the murders - and why there were only five of them. The book is now out of print (not surprisingly) but nevertheless, it is Stephen Knight to whom credit should go, for proving the freemasonic ties.Book Review: Dark Stuff from England's Mad Genius of Comics
Summary: 4 Stars
Alan Moore's From Hell is one of the most complex, dark and disturbing stories put into graphic format. This is a highly speculative and at times fanciful tale based on London's famous "Jack the Ripper" murders of the 1880's. Moore uses an admittedly far-fetched conspiracy theory as the base for this graphic novel which traces involvement in the killings to the English throne itself. The premise is that the killer is the Queen's own physician, Sir William Gull, presented as a kind of mad prophet.This is not a "whodunit," but is more of a dark meditation on modern times in which the Ripper metaphorically gives birth to the bloody twentieth century. While I strongly disagree with Moore's politics/world-view, his complex fables are intelligently exececuted and thought-provoking. Eddie Campbell's gritty black and white illustrations set the tone. There is much (at times gratuitous)graphicly illustrated sex (of every perverted variety) and violence and this book is not for the faint of heart.
Book Review: Dark times
Summary: 5 Stars
What to say? I'm sure that this is one of the few best graphic novels I've ever read in my life. Mr. Moore is such a great author.
His vision and his ideas are more than fantastic. The dark and expressive art of Mr. Campbell makes the story more powerful, but I prefer such realistic and crazy mixed media stuff like the one by Mr. McKean, (Cages, Signal to Noise...).
This, I should say book is must have for everyone who prefers the serious and non- commercial kind of storytelling and b&w ink artwork. If you buy From Hell, you won't regret it!
Book Review: Don't read it for history
Summary: 4 Stars
If you're looking for honest exposition on the Whitechapel murders, put this down. Moore's theory was originally propagated by Stephen Knight and is utterly and completely ludicrous as a means of explaining the murders. If you take it all as fiction and imagination, then you are in for a brilliant, sublimely macabre treat. Just don't get this confused with reality - even the theory's original author has disavowed it.