Watchmen by Alan Moore Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Watchmen
Book Review: A comic book for adults who don't read comics
Summary: 5 Stars
A classic book that established the graphic novel as a serious genre. Written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons, this multilayered story is rich in cultural allusion and historical pastiche. Loosely a superhero 'whodunnit' set in an alternate 1985 where Nixon won the Vietnam War, Watchmen simultaneously dissects comic stereotypes and studies the relation of comic imagery to the politics of its time.Book Review: Makes you think...
Summary: 5 Stars
On the surface it's another well-written graphic novel with a dark feel about it. Then you delve deeper. The deeper you go the more you realise that this is a dig at society. Hero's are outlaws and criminals and the world is a mess and the people who could save us have their own problems. The great American graphic novel... by an Englishman, now that's irony. If this book were a song it would be Street Spirit (Fade out) by Radiohead... beautiful, dark but with an edge of hope. Read it and realise how life could be... IMmERse yOUr SOuL iN LOvE...Book Review: One of the best stories ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this book about 4 years ago, and I still go back and read it today.It is simply a supreme piece of wrtiting and story telling. It shows you what can be done in the comic book genre. If you only like comics, you must have this in your collection. If I wrote anything half as good, I would die a happy man.
There is more depth to this book than any review can reveal. It will affect you on a lot of levels. it will provoke, entertain, disgust and leave you feeling good and bad.
Read it!
Book Review: My Wife Thinks I'm Daft.......
Summary: 5 Stars
...because this is the third time i've read this book, or as she says 'kids comic'. I first found it in 1990, and after reading it was amazed at the versatility Alan Moore forces on the previously rigid storytelling rules. Whether accompanied by illustrations or straight-forward prose, it sucks you in. Buy it. Read it. Then read it again to see all the things you missed.This book changed the whole genre, as well as peoples lives, and the graphic novel, sorry comic world was never the same again.Book Review: An unparalleled achievement.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of the most affecting and thought-provoking books around, and it cannot be overstated how much it suffers through being grouped in with the comic book / graphic novel category of literature. That said, some of the interplay between words and pictures took my breath away - it makes you wonder what JD Salinger or Hunter Thompson could have achieved if they had been working in this field - and the observations and conclusions that Alan Moore makes are frighteningly real.The characterisations, particularly Daniel Dreiberg, are carefully drawn out and well handled, and the artwork is good enough to carry the story without overwhelming it (as it did in Dark Knight Returns). There is an element of 'The Usual Suspects/The Sixth Sense' to the writing too, so that as soon as you have finished the book once you immediately want to start it again to look for the clues that you missed the first time around.
If you have already read this book, then you already spend much of your time telling others to read it; if you haven't read it, I would put it up there with 'On The Road' and 'Catcher In The Rye' as an example of a writer who can perfectly illustrate the mood of America, albeit during a fictional time in its history.