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Your 10 Most Recommend Books To Read before You Die
MustardTent:
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on November 20, 2008, 05:04:03 pm ---If you've never read Watchmen, you've got time before the movie comes out. Well worth it!
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Resurrecting this thread cause I was reading the watchmen on the recommendation of a few people and just finished it. I really wasn't that impressed, but not because of the story. This story would have benefited greatly from being split into multiple graphic novels or just one regular novel. There just wasn't much depth.
Also, since I'm adding to the thread, I'll add the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons as one of the best series of novels I've ever read. It's also a story that's been trying to break onto the big screen for a good long time.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: MustardTent on February 17, 2009, 10:04:59 am ---This story would have benefited greatly from being split into multiple graphic novels or just one regular novel.
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It was originally a 12 issue comic book run, not a graphic novel at all. What people refer to now as a "graphic novel" is actually just a collection of those 12 issues.
And you're in the minority on this. That's one DEEP frickin' series. You must've missed out on a lot. Hell, the book excerpts between issues filled in a lot of the gaps.
MustardTent:
Didn't know it was a condensed series. Just reading the graphic novel though didn't provide much depth. How could it? It's short and the format does not allow for much depth as there's just not that much text.
Ginsu Victim:
It's not condensed. It's all there. All 12 issues.
And when talking about depth, we're talking about a 1985 comic book run that had more character development and backstory than just about anything that had come out up to that point. It was aimed at adults and was a growth point for comics in the public eye. It, along with The Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke, really helped push the format into bolder new story directions.
shmokes:
In no particular order:
1- Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
2- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
3- Memoirs of an Invisible Man - H.F. Saint
4- Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
5- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
6- Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
7- The World According to Garp - John Irving
8- Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl (if you have any love for your child whatsoever make sure he/she reads this before leaving elementary school)
9- Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
10- For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway (I had great difficulty deciding which Hemingway to include in the list -- could have just as easily been The Old Man and the Sea, A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, etc . . ., but I think maybe For Whom the Bell Tolls is my favorite).
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