V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of V for Vendetta
Book Review: The perfect comic book?
Summary: 5 Stars
I tend to listen to friends advice very often, and I also happen to like being generous when I by them Christmas presents. So a friend of mine talked alot about how much he wanted to read From Hell by Moore. So I bought it as a Christmas present for him, mostly because I wanted to read it myself. And we both liked it. Later, I owed the same guy some money, and after listening to him muttering that V for Vendetta might just be even more brilliant, I bought it to him too. And it was awesome. I have always been a little scared of superhero books, and I never really liked Batman or Punisher very much. But this was beyond great. The hero is so extremely complex and sophisticated, that any comparison to the more famous superheroes is impossible. And the setting is really one of the best grim futures I've encountered in any literature or movie.Set in London in some future, the world has been torn apart by some great war, and several continents are wiped out. England has prevailed. And now she is being controlled by a totalitarean (is that a word) and facsist government, who seem to put her future in the hands of the all knowing computer Fate. Anyone who strays from the ideals and looks the government want, are arrested and taken to camps. In this future, music, art and literature is forbidden, unless it is approved by the government, and not much is. In the middle of this we follow Eve, a young girl lost in the city and drawn to prostitution to survive, and her mysterious captor/savior V, a terrorist and visionary, who tries to turn England back to what it were before the war.
If you like Neil Gaiman or Garth Ennis, you'll love V for Vendetta, also if you like any story about dark futures, like George Orwell's 1984 (well that's more a dark past).
Now I really look forward to buying "The Watchmen" and "Swamp Thing". Guess my friend is too.
Book Review: The only compulsory graphic novel
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like Orwell or Huxley or Chomsky but are uninterested by comics you should still read /this/ one."V for Vendetta" is a work of Art. It is *the* graphic novel. An exploration of the practice and morality of anarchism presented with a graphic and literary flair that transcends the genre. There is nothing to match it. Buy this book.
Book Review: Simply beautiful.
Summary: 5 Stars
V for Vendetta is not a graphic novel, comic book or piece of literature. It is an experience. At the heart of the story is the chapter entitled 'Valerie'. I challenge anyone to read this chapter and not cry their eyes out and yet at the same time be uplifted. And that is V for Vendetta in a nutshell. It will break your heart and twist you up inside and yet leave you feeling strangely happy through your tears. And how many works in any media, comics, novels, films or tv, can you say that about? V's insane, Evey's hopelessly lost and the whole Valerie thing might all be part of his deranged imagination. And yet it is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.Book Review: Recognisable Moore
Summary: 5 Stars
V is for vendetta is, as you would expect from Alan Moore a superbly scripted work of genius. Written over almost a decade Moore manages to capture exactly to mood of an alternative yet strangely familiar England. Almost a Sweenyesque (the men get drunk and the women get slapped around) take on the Orwellian 1984 control culture it is thoroughly enjoyable I didn't want to put it down. V is a vigilante murdering the people who put him away in a concentration camp when the government was over run by fascists. The year is now 1998 and the police are faced with solving the murders. The story stays with V and a girl he befriends for a few pages the swing back to what is happening with the police. It never slows down and the fact that its slightly dated now (as the future it predicted was supposed to happen 5 years ago) just ads to the creepy feeling of the book, like actions taking place could've existed in some mirror universe somewhere. A must for any Alan Moore fan or new comer.
Book Review: Essential reading
Summary: 5 Stars
A real work of genius. A compelling tale of an anarchist madman/genius who dresses as Guy Fawkes to bring about the downfall of a post-nuclear fascist state, mixed with human drama (even the upholders of this repressive state have their own stories to tell), political and moral philosophy, the transformation of the human spirit, and a bit of song and dance too! V's stand against the near-future fascist regime becomes symbolic of the fight for freedom from the 'lives of quiet desperation' we can all too easily slip into. Lloyd's artwork is gritty and noirish, and Moore's storytelling abilities as pyrotechnic as ever. Truly brilliant. Essential reading.