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    <body><![CDATA[Uh-oh, I think I like comic books now . . . ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From Hell is a brick of a book by legendary author Alan Moore.  It presents one theory (since discredited) about the Jack The Ripper killings, and in so doing presents us with the story from every conceivable angle.  The result is an exhaustive (albeit fictional) account of a sweeping slice of Victo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13694230">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dense and rewarding graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated in pen and ink by Eddie Campbell.   The actual plot is gripping - especially from the middle to the end - but the story is also used as a jumping off point to discuss architecture, the nature of time, class, Masonry, and the tra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5254903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Around junior high I became fairly obsessed with the Jack the Ripper case, and read a number of the attempts over the years to solve the case. I never read anything all that persuasive that seemed to tie all the little ends together quite as well as <em>From Hell</em>, which of course has the added advantage...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21188707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com:]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted here illegally.)<br/><br/>So in what I think is a first since opening CCLaP last year, I got a chance recently to n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20713823">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Forget <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/472331.Watchmen" title="Watchmen by Alan Moore">Watchmen</a> of The Dark Knight Returns.  Those two titles are often suggested as an entry-point to comics as literature.  The problem is that both works are incredibly metatextual, self-referential, and post-modern takes on the superhero mythos.  To truly appreciate either work, the reader must ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17548333">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised that I didn't like it. Alan Moore, Victorian London, Jack the Ripper ... still, with all that, I had a hard time getting into it. I didn't like the art or even the lettering. Surprising how great a difference that made. Tiny panels, cramped print, murky and smeary black and white art...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41215142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do not base your idea on the 2001 movie based on this work.  That movie is a travesty when compared to its source material.  This is Alan Moore's masterpiece.  The story is sprawling and detailed, though never losing sight of its focus on Jack the Ripper.  Eddie Campbell's black and white artwork re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13413009">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Jack the Ripper mythos is, as Moore tells one in the appendix, so convoluted with theories as to be almost nonsense. From Hell is not an attempt to tell it like it was, but rather a piece of fiction in which Moore uses the murders as a way of channeling something much closer to Crime and Punishm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21148647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sprawling. The size of a phone book, it follows one theory of the Jack the Ripper murders while simultaneously building the world of Victorian London around it with meticulous detail.<br/><br/>Moore's writing is characteristically dense, wrapping multiple character arcs and Very Big I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1161860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading this Victorian gothic horror back in early 2005, during a rather dark period of uncertainty, creeping malaise and vicious self-doubt; needless to say, it was a perfect book for the moment.  Now that I'm revisiting my Alan Moore collection along with countless thousands of fellow c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47949246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am no Comics aficionado or anything, but I do like me a good graphic novel from time to time, and have read a number or Alan Moore's other works, like V for Vendetta and Watchmen. From Hell has to rank, though, as his best work.<br/><br/>As much psychological study as social critique, From Hell re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68557856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm very aware of the implications of criticizing the canon.  Bazillions of you have already come through and gushed all over this dark, difficult graphic novel and through the weight of reputation alone, I feel like I should give it at least six or seven stars.  I am reminded of a (now ex) girlfrie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56984649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Moore uses a fictionalized account of Jack the Ripper to examine the doubly-twisted world of a serial killer and the abominable society that created him. To focus too much on the historical theory (taken largely from Stephen Knight's overly-dramatized speculations) would be to miss the point. Moore ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51734072">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ostensibly about the 'Jack the Ripper' murders, Moore sidesteps the trite conventions of a 'historical fiction whodunnit' to present a complex vision of occultism, history, vice, and madness. Eddie Campbell's line-heavy art style reinforces the 19th century subject matter perfectly. As to be expecte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22235353">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creepy, bloody, and intricate as all hell. I highly recommend the &quot;double bookmark&quot; method of reading this one... mark your place in the text with one and mark your place in the endnotes with the other, because your appreciation for Eddie Campbell's research and the full scope of Ripper lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4789348">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may have taken V for Vendetta's top spot in my heart as far as graphic novels go. Well...maybe a tie.<br/><br/>I've read quite a bit of JTR lore. This is by far my favorite. We're all familiar, in some way, with his spree, so actually seeing it depicted in pen and ink made it so much more rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75925496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most impressive projects I've ever read in print.  Before reading this tome, be aware that the last 100 or so pages contains a page-by-page (sometime panel-by-panel) explanation of sources and artistic decisions by Moore himself.  This kind of work could qualify for a PHD most pla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51172361">more...</a>]]></body>
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