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I guess I think this is a 3.5 star book. It's brilliantly illustrated and does a great job with twisting, interlocking story lines and flashbacks. But it's terribly dated, deeply implausible, and weirdly paced with an abrupt ending. And it never really engaged me emotionally.
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A few of my friends consider this to be an amazing work, but I think I just read it at the wrong time. I remember that feeling of Cold War impending doom (although I was relatively young), but it's just too far away to give this real impact. I do like the Alan Moore's point about Rorschach being an exploration of what Batman would be in real life (psychopathic).
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Kimberly McCarty
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