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    <body><![CDATA[I can understand why this is considered a holy tome in the field of graphic novels.  The plot is complex, it’s unique, and it’s well drawn.  Also, it’s got the Holy Grail of every geeky comic book fan's wetdreams – lots of cool gadgets and stuff.<br/><br/>I ain’t knocking that.  Imaginat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29904822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've been in many discussions over the years -- some in classes I was teaching, some over pints in the bar, and still others late at night with people I love -- about what <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2041.Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Alan Moore</a> was trying to say with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen" title="Watchmen by Alan Moore">Watchmen</a>, discussions about the meaning of his graphic novel, and I am convinced that the mean...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18621392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Graphic Novel. It's 1985. We won the Vietnam War. Nixon is still president. Someone is killing off costumed superheroes, and the world is on the brink of nuclear war. I wasn't expecting to like this book. What, I wondered, did a comic from the late eighties have to offer me, a hip and happening girl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4723214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I realize that what I'm about to say is as close as you can get to comic book blasphemy, but I think that 1) Alan Moore is the most overrated comic book writer ever and 2) this graphic novel is overblown, pretentious and most unforgivable of all, boring.<br/><br/>To be fair, I'm somewhat of a snob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28034686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who’s watching Watchmen? Everybody apparently. This book—or comic book, or graphic novel, or whatever you want to call it—has been picked apart endlessly in the 20 years since it was first published, every frame microscopically studied, its plot, characters, and symbols charted out no less ela...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2025248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmm, what to say.  I read this AFTER I saw the movie, which was sacrilege according to some fellow geeks on Twitter, but my definition of &quot;Geek&quot; is someone who doesn't do what people PRESSURE them to do :P  They love what they love.  So anyhoo I read this and I can summarize this way:<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45691775">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall, these 2 quotes are the book in a nutshell:<br/><br/>Rorshack says in chapter 2, &quot;Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.&quot; Extremely interesting considering the source.<br/><br/><br/>Hollis Mason in his autobiography: &quot;Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35269636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Once upon a time I lent my first-edition of the Watchmen graphic novel to some friend of mine.  I don't remember who.  They still have it, I'm pretty sure.  If you are that friend, please return my book because I've just seen the movie and now I'm ready to read the book again.<br/><br/>My friends ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32131065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen" title="Watchmen by Alan Moore">Watchmen</a></em> is considered one of the most important comic books in history. The costumes are less spectacular, the origins more bleak, the heroes more despicable and/or self-loathing, the villains almost non-existent, the relationships more strained and the political overtones more blatant than wer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4321416">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen" title="Watchmen by Alan Moore">Watchmen</a> by the very intense <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2041.Frances_Hodgson_Burnett" title="Frances Hodgson Burnett">Alan Moore</a> of V for Vendetta fame. I've been on a bit of a comic book/graphic novel kick recently after completing a whole host of non-fiction work for use in my Master's thesis. The Watchmen is one of those books that anyone who cares, or cared, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1173354">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since the movie came out, I've found myself having to explain to people why Watchmen is important and interesting. Despite being the most revered comic book of all time, it never really entered the mainstream until the film. Now, people are rushing to it in droves, but coming to watchmen without an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1194339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've heard nothing but unflinching hyperbolic praise for this book.  I wonder if it's even possible for anything to live up to the kind of hype this has suffered.  It's the only graphic novel/comic book to be included on Time Magazine's list of 100 greatest novels since the beginning of Time's publi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23378204">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm rereading Watchmen for the first time in about five years and have thus decided to start a petition to officially change its name to creamy goodness. <br/><br/>Seriously its one of those blessed rereadings where every twenty pages or so I come across a sequence and go &quot;Yeah I remember thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10189966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was told and told and told again that I must read this as my introduction to the graphic novel genre. There were a few dissident voices for <em>Sandman</em>, but they were largely drowned out by the chorus for this piece. (Piece? Book doesn't feel right.)<br/><br/>It did take me a little bit to adjust my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48100478">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="44282555">
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in 1985 in New York, the Cold War is still very much alive, Nixon is settling in for yet another term as President, and masked vigilantes are considerably <em>passé</em>. Since the costumed adventurers of the 30s and 40s called The Minutemen disbanded in the 50s, masked vigilantes became increasingly un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44282555">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <review id="48997075">
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe this is worth four stars.  Or maybe even five stars, but only if I had read <em>Watchmen</em> when I was twelve years old.  That doesn't mean that I had to be twelve to like it, but that would have been how old I would have been when these first came out.  Instead of reading them then I was a pretty lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48997075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read too many comic books (or graphic novels or whatever), and most of the ones I have read I haven't really enjoyed. I think it's because I lack a very basic skill, and I suspect that many literary types who disdain comics have the same problem - I suck at looking at pictures. My eye is d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43268477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm seriously tempted to give spoilers here, as the book was utterly mind-blowing (GAH!  Rorschach!  GAH!), and there were some serious twists in the book that, while I can't say I didn't see them coming, still really affected me strongly.<br/><br/>This is not a comic book for those who want their...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44672003">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm prepared to get pelted with rotten vegetables and bricks and all manner of nasty things, but....<em>Watchmen</em> didn't really do anything for me. In fact, I was so &quot;meh&quot; about it that I had to go do some research in order to see if I could figure out just <em>why</em>, exactly, it's so acclaimed.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41535556">more...</a>]]></body>
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