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Jun 06, 2007
Eric
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On the cover of the copy I have, it says it Watchmen is one of the "100 Best Novels" of all time, according to Time Magazine. Seeing that genuinely surprised me, considering I thought I was about to read a rather large comic book.
See, I loved comics as a kid, and hearing good things about this, I thought it would just be a fun summer read. What I didn't account for is the difference between the comics of my childhood and the graphic novels that are currently being made for adults.
This is not a ...more
See, I loved comics as a kid, and hearing good things about this, I thought it would just be a fun summer read. What I didn't account for is the difference between the comics of my childhood and the graphic novels that are currently being made for adults.
This is not a ...more
I heard of it when it came out of course. And a copy was loaned to the household a few years ago. My roommates throughly enjoyed it (I think at least one had read it before, it had just been years).
I puttered around with it in spurts and eventually got about halfway through before putting it down due to ennui.
The story doesn't really grab me, and there wasn't a single character I cared about. Right now, I can barely remember anything about it at all. I can't even remember what I thought of the a ...more
I puttered around with it in spurts and eventually got about halfway through before putting it down due to ennui.
The story doesn't really grab me, and there wasn't a single character I cared about. Right now, I can barely remember anything about it at all. I can't even remember what I thought of the a ...more
People speak of this book with too much reverence, I think---it's good, and perhaps I'll revise my opinion later, but I found it often a bit thick to get through, and too manic or hokey at times--like I could hear an old-fashioned silent film soundtrack vamping in my head but too much. I do think the structure of the thing is amazing, that much is true. But I found the dramatics of the story overheated---I didn't believe the characters, much of the time. As new work appears, it seems less striki
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One of the most important GNs out there.
May 15, 2007
Danielle
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it was amazing
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Jun 09, 2007
Stephen A.
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really liked it
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