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- Pretty Monsters (16)
- By Kelly Link
- Started on Feb 9, 2012
  
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Pretty Monsters

This was recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I normally trust on books, but I'm starting to think maybe our taste is only similar before 1950! I didn't care much for this at all. It's a short story collection of strange/spooky/gothic tales. I think it would be very appealing to fans of Angel ... (continue)

This was recommended to me by a friend whose opinion I normally trust on books, but I'm starting to think maybe our taste is only similar before 1950! I didn't care much for this at all. It's a short story collection of strange/spooky/gothic tales. I think it would be very appealing to fans of Angela Carter and Neil Gaiman but it just wasn't my thing at all.
Firstly the characters were all teenagers, and not very interesting teenagers at that. Quite a few of the stories were set in made up fantasy type worlds but the people didn't seem real enough or interesting enough to be able to relate to. But rather normal dull ones! The timing was really odd for most of the stories as well, it was like she spent most of the story setting things up and then as soon as something happened and the plot was about to move on the story ended. I think my biggest problem was her style though. It was just so clunky most of the time. It kinda felt like the stories were being written by someone with autism or something. It was just very strange and not in a good way.
The stories in the book were the Wrong Grave, which seemed kinda a pointless story about a guy digging up his ex-girlfriends grave to find someone else there only to reveal it was his ex-girlfriend she just didn't want to tell him, and ended when she went off to have an adventure. The wizards of perfil was better, kids taken away and meant to work for wizards, but the reveal at the end just felt like a let down. The faery handbag was one of my favourite stories. It was also kinda predictable but it felt the most like an actual folktale rather than something made up (there were no gratutious references to livejournal or google). The specialist's hat was quite a nice ghost story about little girls playing that they were dead. Monster was about annoying boys at summer camp who get eaten by a monster. The monster was definitely the best part, though he was only in it for a bit. The surfer was actually my favourite story, it was the least fantasy based of the story. While it was mostly people waiting in quarantine in a distopian future, and the main character was a teen obsessed with soccer! I still liked it. It was claustrophobic and felt like the most believable of the stories. Perhaps it was because it felt like it was more scifi than fantasy/horror. The constable of Abal was one of the more fantastical tales but I also quite liked it. It felt very much like an Indian or Chinese story that had been changed into a western fairy tale. Pretty monsters I just found terrible. It was terribly predictable, I think I'd figured out the "twist" in 10 pages and the characters were just awful. The cinderella game I also didn't care much for, not exactly new ideas or interesting.
I think there are a lot of people who'd really like this book. But for me it was very hit or miss. There were a couple stories I enjoyed but overall I found it really awkward. More than anything it just made me want to go back and read nice Victorian prose again. I don't think I'll be reading any more books by Kelly Link.

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— Feb 21, 2012 | Add your feedback
- The Dalek Survival Guide (1)
- By Nicholas Briggs
- Finished on Feb 13, 2012
  
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The Dalek Survival Guide

This is a very cute guide to daleks. First of all there are no photographs of actual daleks from Doctor Who they are all just pencil sketches and as such they are very beautiful. There are several different history of the daleks given from different shows and books. There are also descriptions of th ... (continue)

This is a very cute guide to daleks. First of all there are no photographs of actual daleks from Doctor Who they are all just pencil sketches and as such they are very beautiful. There are several different history of the daleks given from different shows and books. There are also descriptions of the different daleks used in different episodes.
Without a doubt though my favourite section was How to survive forced captivity with a dalek. It was just hilarious. Things to avoid saying and doing with a dalek. How to tell when you were in danger. How to avoid getting exterminated. How you must never make the mistake of thinking the dalek likes you or is in anyway sympathetic to an inferior life form. The accompanying illustrations were equally brilliant.

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— Feb 19, 2012 | Add your feedback
- Who on Earth is Tom Baker? (10)
- By Tom Baker
- Finished on Feb 10, 2012
  
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Who on Earth is Tom Baker?

I've said before I'm not really one for autobiographies but this one was brilliant. It was both hilarious and tragic at the same time. It was so sad to read how Tom had so little connection with people, how he was unable to relate to anyone. His childhood seemed so sad, not because of the poverty, b ... (continue)

I've said before I'm not really one for autobiographies but this one was brilliant. It was both hilarious and tragic at the same time. It was so sad to read how Tom had so little connection with people, how he was unable to relate to anyone. His childhood seemed so sad, not because of the poverty, but rather cause of the great loneliness and self loathing that it produced. It was especially sad that someone who'd made so many childhoods so much fun didn't have that for himself. For me it was much more interesting reading about his childhood, his time as a monk and his lost family than it was to read about him being in Doctor Who. It was kinda abrupt the way it went from loosing his family to moving to London to be an actor. But then I suppose somethings are too personal to tell. But at the same time while telling these sad self-deprecating stories it was so very funny. There was always jokes and humour in everything. I absoultely adored this book and am so glad I read it.

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— Feb 19, 2012 | Add your feedback
- Euripides (2)
- Children of Heracles. Hippolytus. Andromache. Hecuba (Loeb Classical Library No. 484)
- By David Kovacs, Euripides
- Finished on Mar 15, 2012
  
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Euripides

I read Hecuba because it was this year's Greek Play at Kings and I always like to have read the play before I go and see it. It was very good. Once again another lovely Greek play where there are lots of women characters. Hecuba is quite woe begotten loosing her children and having her daughter sacr ... (continue)

I read Hecuba because it was this year's Greek Play at Kings and I always like to have read the play before I go and see it. It was very good. Once again another lovely Greek play where there are lots of women characters. Hecuba is quite woe begotten loosing her children and having her daughter sacrificed but she does at least get a bit of revenge. Children of Hercules was my least favourite. Too many men and not enough interesting things happening and of course everytime Iolaus was on stage I was picturing the tv show! Andromache I really liked. There were interesting dynamics between the women characters, even if they were mostly just fighting over men. Hippolytus was also very good. The gods causing havoc in the lives of mortals and women committing suicide as a form of protest and blame. It also had some of the nicest lines of the four.
I did enjoy these plays a lot though I finished them quite a few days ago and am having a hard time remembering all the details already!

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— Mar 22, 2012 | Add your feedback
- 西街少年 (4)
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- By 三立電視台
- Finished on Feb 19, 2012
  
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西街少年

I'm on a chinese pop music community on LJ and one of the members was giving away cds and dvds as well as these comics. I find comics really good for practicing Chinese and so I asked her to send me the 3 West side story 西街少年 comics. I just finished the first one. I read the whole thing in one go an ... (continue)

I'm on a chinese pop music community on LJ and one of the members was giving away cds and dvds as well as these comics. I find comics really good for practicing Chinese and so I asked her to send me the 3 West side story 西街少年 comics. I just finished the first one. I read the whole thing in one go and I really liked it!!! It was in traditional characters which made it a bit harder for me, I had to add a new imput method to my iphone so I could look up words in the dictionary! But overall it wasn't too difficult to follow, I just got a little lost towards the end and had to go back and re-read parts to figure out what had happened.
The book was pretty great. It was all about teen skaters in high school who hung out on West side street. There were four characters who were the main gang. I have to say that one of the most lovely things about this was one of the four guys was actually transgender! She was a "tomboy" whose secret was revealed when she was hitting on the main girl character at the begining of the novel, when the main girl grabbed her chest and found out she had boobs! But she's totally accepted by the guys and they don't treat her/him any differently which was just brilliant!
The main character girl was also pretty fantastic. In her first scene she had a huge rant about the way that men and boys treat women and how they need to respect them and not see them as just sex objects. She's always conflicting with the main guy character as they try and find her missing schoolmate.
The story is a bit more than you'd expect to find in a teen comic about skaters, there's hints of prositution and lots of involvement of the police. I have two more books in the series to read and I'm really looking forward to them. I think I will end up reading them quite a few times just to make sure I understand everything. But I'm very happy I was sent them.

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— Feb 21, 2012 | Add your feedback

- Jack the Ripper and Black Magic (1)
- Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Mur…
- By Spiro Dimolianis
- Finished on Feb 6, 2012
  
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic

I bought this book for the collection at work, as despite the title it seemed like quite an interesting and scholarly book. I must admit that the only book I've read about Jack the Ripper is From Hell (which given the copious pages of footnotes to historical sources and modern ripperoligists means t ... (continue)

I bought this book for the collection at work, as despite the title it seemed like quite an interesting and scholarly book. I must admit that the only book I've read about Jack the Ripper is From Hell (which given the copious pages of footnotes to historical sources and modern ripperoligists means that I probably know more than you'd think having only read a comic book on the subject) and as such I did find it quite easy to follow the book.
The first three chapters were my favourite. The first looked at fortune telling and ghosts. It was wonderful to see all these examples, all of which came from Tower Hamlets. Cases of ordinary people who were arrested or charged over fortune telling. The book went on to look at the way the different types of people accussed of being Jack the Ripper represented different fears and prejudices within the community, Jews, Irish, Gypsies, even Americans. He also addressed the ways that the muders were incoporated into the spiritual and occult beliefs of the time, by the mainstream press, as well as by the different occult groups of the period. Most noticably the theosophists. He spent several chapters addressing the claims that D Onston was Jack the Ripper, the different ways the story the grew, who was responsible for them and how he hurt his own case. It was a very interesting look at the occult societies of the time and to see the way the story grew and gained more intrigue as it went on.
The last chapter was the only one that I didn't find very interesting. It tried looking at the secret service and it's relation to the urban myths that have grown up around the Ripper case. Here there was a lot of talks of spies and the official secrets act and I'm afraid I just found my attention starting to wane. The other criticism of the book was a lack of conclusion. Having presented lots of interesting information about the way the case and it's representation portrayed ideas about prejudice and the occult. Not only for the original period of 1888 but how these theories grew and changed with time and different current historians presenting their theories based on the evidence as it grew and changed. It would have been nice to have some form of conclusion or summing up rather than quite an abrupt end. Still overall I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it to people with either an interest in the murders, late Victorian beliefs, and occult organisations.
I would also like to add that if you're reading a book called Jack the Ripper and Black Magic with a picture of a young Crowley on it, people do give you a lot more room on a crowded train. Particularly when going through Whitechapel.

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— Feb 18, 2012 | Add your feedback
- SMAX (19)
- By Alan Moore, Zander Cannon
- Finished on Feb 1, 2012
  
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SMAX

I think this was my least favourite of the Top Ten books. It was a fantasty spoof and while there were some quite funny moments I just don't think I read enough fantasy to get all the references. I did spot Cutter with a beer belly but it kinda reinforced the idea that it's just a genre that doesn't ... (continue)

I think this was my least favourite of the Top Ten books. It was a fantasty spoof and while there were some quite funny moments I just don't think I read enough fantasy to get all the references. I did spot Cutter with a beer belly but it kinda reinforced the idea that it's just a genre that doesn't do much for me anymore.
It was amusing to see the police officers from the superhero worlds back in the fantasy setting. To see it all messed up. But it was a very light story without any depth. Just a little comedy and not the funniest comedy I've read by Moore.

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— Feb 1, 2012 | Add your feedback
- Killer in the Rain: "The Man Who Liked Dogs"; "The Curtain"; "Try the Girl"; "Mandarin's Jade"; "Bay City Blues"; "The Lady in the Lake"; "No Crime in the Mountains" (28)
- By Raymond Chandler
- Finished on Feb 5, 2012
  
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Killer in the Rain: "The Man Who Liked Dogs"; "The Curtain"; "Try the Girl"; "Mandarin's Jade"; "Bay City Blues"; "The Lady in the Lake"; "No Crime in the Mountains"

I'd read both Killer in the Rain and the Big sleep before but the other short stories in this collection were new to me. I enjoyed it, though unfortunately the stories faded quite quickly from my mind. Things that stand out were the very brutal torture of a criminal (thankfully by a guy who turned o ... (continue)

I'd read both Killer in the Rain and the Big sleep before but the other short stories in this collection were new to me. I enjoyed it, though unfortunately the stories faded quite quickly from my mind. Things that stand out were the very brutal torture of a criminal (thankfully by a guy who turned out to be "the bad guy" and not a nice cop), one of the girls the guy had been searching for getting beaten up by the private dick at the end of the story so she could get away with murder, the fact that not only were there black people living in Califonia, but that they had whole neighbourhoods and their own bars and clubs and lives. While I still prefer Hammett to Chandler I did enjoy these stories and definitely want to read some more of his novels. I really enjoy his style, everything is so visual and gritty. As much as I love the film noir movies everything just feels more real and dirty in the original stories.
The stories here were Killer in the rain, The man who liked dogs, the curtain, Try the girl, Mandarin's Jade, Bay City Blues, The Lady in the Lake and No crime in the mountains.

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— Feb 19, 2012 | Add your feedback
- EARLY CHINESE TEXTS PAINTNG P (2)
- By Bush
- Finished on Jan 20, 2012
  
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EARLY CHINESE TEXTS PAINTNG P

A friend of mine gave me a copy of this book. I'm not sure it's something I would have bought for myself as I'm not a big fan or art criticism. But I found I really enjoyed this book. It's a collection of translations of mainly Song and Tang texts on painting and the nature of art and artists. While ... (continue)

A friend of mine gave me a copy of this book. I'm not sure it's something I would have bought for myself as I'm not a big fan or art criticism. But I found I really enjoyed this book. It's a collection of translations of mainly Song and Tang texts on painting and the nature of art and artists. While there was a lot of technical details about paintings and what makes paintings good there was also a nice ammount of social history. Rather than do a big review I will give some quotes as examples of the types of things being talked about.
The first thing that I loved was from a preface written by Wei Hung in 25ce to the shijing. He said, "The music of the epoch of good government is quiescent and therefore joyful, for the governing is harmonious. The music of the period of confusion is discontented and therefore wrathful, for the government is deteriorated. The music of the country running to ruin is complaining and mediating, for the people reached misery" (60 I just loved this so much. There in an early 1st century CE Chinese text you have a Confucian explaing why Punk happens!!!!!!
Even in the early texts from the 4th century there were a lot of people writing about the greatness of the past and how modern art is rubbish.
Chen Yen Yuan had a long passage on the importance of conservation and preservation of paintings and how you should handle them not to damage them. "One should never look at calligraphy and painting near a fire or candle. Also, one should never look at calligraphy in wind or sunlight, or when one has just been eating drinking spitting or blowing the nose without washing one's hands. .. All calligraphy and painting if unrolled from time to time may be kept free of insects and dampness.
This theme was returned to later when Chao Hsi-Ku talked about care and display of paintings. Of only having a few in a room and then rotating these. "the silk of antique paintings is so brittle that when touched even lightly, it will invariably be damaged and once ruined it can never be restored. The greatest precautions must be taken against stains left by wine or oil from food. One should, by all means, write thse instructions on a piece of paper and paste it between the windows as a notice to visitors. Only then should guest be brought into the room for viewing". (239) Tang Hou added to this saying "one should not look at paintings under the lamplight nor with wine by one's side after drinking to excess. Furthermore, do not show paintings to people without taste. To unroll a painting in an inappropriate manner is extremly harmful to it. As for the ignorant and decietful, they insist upon looking at paintings and thoughtlessly criticize their quality and style. They basically lack understanding of these works and carelessly judge their geniueness or spuriousness. This causes one to be short tempered" (259)
One part that was interesting mentioned how somebody became a great painted by listening to the criticism of ordinary people who saw his paintings. This was totally differnet to the idea of artist as genius and art not being something that ordinary people can understand. Though this was during the Tang and later in the Song and Yuan there were many who wrote that there were things that normal people or supposed scholars could not understand. A later painter was critical that when people found out that he was a painter they wanted him to paint very specific things but when he couldn't they became annoyed with him.
There was also a lot of talk about how it was important not just to capture the likeness of something but also the spirit. Thus painting became not just a physical activity but was another judge of how much of a sage the painter was in his ability to look beyond the surface of things. Portraits were supposed to not just show the appearance but describe the mind of the individual. "otherwise nobles and commoners would be alike in visage though their minds differ. The valued and the worthless, the honoured and the detested, how then would they be differentiated? Even though they would have formal likeness of what benefit would this be?" (230)
I did enjoy this book, particularly the Song part, as there were many names that had become familiar to me while I was writing my dissertation and it was nice to revist them and see what they had to say on other topics. I greatly enjoyed this book and will have to read lots more books on Chinese history again this year.

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— Feb 5, 2012 | Add your feedback
- The Windup Girl (144)
- By Paolo Bacigalupi
- Abandoned on Jan 26, 2012
  
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The Windup Girl

A friend of mine loaned this to me and I was very excited to read it. She loved it and it had been hailed as the next best thing since William Gibson, dystopia future and all kinds of goodness. Alas I gave up after about 3 chapters. I probably should have tried longer but have just got too many love ... (continue)

A friend of mine loaned this to me and I was very excited to read it. She loved it and it had been hailed as the next best thing since William Gibson, dystopia future and all kinds of goodness. Alas I gave up after about 3 chapters. I probably should have tried longer but have just got too many lovely books to read at the moment.
The biggest problem I had with the book was the lack of description. The first chapter was about someone in a futuristic factory where they made something called springs that didn't seem to work, but then it seemed like a dinosaur or something broke loose from the factory machinery and went on a rampage. There was just no way to picture what was happening. Too many new ideas with no explanation was a bit annoying. Then it was time to meet the "wind up" girl our female protagonist and the first scene with her proceeded with her getting humilated and raped (and coming!) by a woman in what was possibly a strip club/brothel (as I said bit of a problem with lack of description). It was like the author really wanted to write the traditional subserviant Japanese woman/Geisha ideal. But felt he couldn't get away with it today so made her a "new people" sex toy genetically grown non-human. Not an idea that's at all new to scifi and one that has been done much better. It just felt far too much like a sexual fantasy ideal. She was about as far away from Molly in neuromancer as I think you could get.
So I gave up. I do try to like modern scifi. It just never seems to appeal to me.

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— Jan 28, 2012 | Add your feedback

- Edge of the Orison (3)
- In the Traces of John Clare's "Journey Out of Essex"
- By Iain Sinclair
- Finished on Jan 27, 2012
  
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Edge of the Orison

I first heard of Ian Sinclair a few months ago when he did an event with Alan Moore at the Barbican. He did some readings and I liked his style. I borrowed this book from the library as I really like Moore's chapter on John Clare in Voice of the Fire and apparently Moore was one of the people in the ... (continue)

I first heard of Ian Sinclair a few months ago when he did an event with Alan Moore at the Barbican. He did some readings and I liked his style. I borrowed this book from the library as I really like Moore's chapter on John Clare in Voice of the Fire and apparently Moore was one of the people in the book so it seemed like a good place to start.
I have to say I did not get on that well with this book. I found the lack of structure really frustrating. It seemed to drift all over the place, sometimes about walking, family history, other history, Clare's life with no real reason behind any of it. When he was talking about historical things I did enjoy the book. There was a chapter about Shelly which I particularly liked. However, there was a lot I didn't care for. The walking chapters just seemed SO pretentious it hurt. It was like he was the subject of Pulp's common people. Recreating a walk of a madman on the run from a mental hospital and then staying in nice hotels just felt like cheating, and being outraged when you couldn't stay in the posh one cause you were too scruffy from walking even though they'd taken your credit card seemed absurd. He just came across as so annoying. He was like the opposite of Kerouac, instead of going around and digging all the things he saw and celebrating them, it just all came off as superior comdemnation. There was also a lot about his wife's family history, which while he attempted to link with Clare I don't think he managed very well and in the end I found those sections very dull.
I've got a copy of his book he wrote with Rachel Lictenstein about the disappearing cabalist in spitalfields which I'm looking forward to reading. But I can't see myself picking up any more of his books.

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— Feb 4, 2012 | Add your feedback
- Managra (2)
- (Doctor Who the Missing Adventures)
- By Stephen Marley
- Finished on Jan 21, 2012
  
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Managra

This was the first of the Missing adventures that I'd read that wasn't by Gareth Roberts and Oh dear it was not very good! There were lots of times that the Doctor and Sarah didn't act like themselves (Sarah wearing a plain black bikini? The Doctor knocking people unconcious with a yoyo?) The story, ... (continue)

This was the first of the Missing adventures that I'd read that wasn't by Gareth Roberts and Oh dear it was not very good! There were lots of times that the Doctor and Sarah didn't act like themselves (Sarah wearing a plain black bikini? The Doctor knocking people unconcious with a yoyo?) The story, I'd hoped would be a little like Leagure of Extraordinary Gentlemen with a bunch of 19th characters, but it was much more like a trailer for the movie. There was no real explanation for the strangeness of the world. It was just that way, with clones from previous ages and literature hanging around in different time periods. It reminded me of the role playing game Torg. The plot seemed to be that things were controlled by this evil play wright who had to be stopped before he took control of the vatican. I shall probably not be trying many more books in this series!

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— Feb 1, 2012 | Add your feedback
- Panoramas of Lost London (1)
- Work, Wealth, Poverty and Change 1870-1945
- By Philip Davies
- Finished on Jan 23, 2012
  
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Panoramas of Lost London

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This book is a gorgeous collection of photographs from the London County Council of buildings that were going to be destroyed from the 1870s-1940s. Unlike a lot of books of photographs of London this one doesn't just focus on the poverty or the grandeur but it covers wealthy areas as well as slums, ... (continue)

This book is a gorgeous collection of photographs from the London County Council of buildings that were going to be destroyed from the 1870s-1940s. Unlike a lot of books of photographs of London this one doesn't just focus on the poverty or the grandeur but it covers wealthy areas as well as slums, places of work and industry. This makes for a much bigger impact. The photos are also stunningly well organised within the categories with streets next to each other geographically next to each other in the book. This gives a great sense of walking through London and seeing how it used to be. It also shows how poverty wasn't just confined to the East End but could be found throughout London.

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— Jan 23, 2012 | Add your feedback
- No Tomorrow (4)
- By Vivant Denon
- Finished on Jan 21, 2012
  
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No Tomorrow

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I found this nice little dual language version of this story when I was at the Wallace Collection. It's dual language, not facing pages but with the English translation first and then the French version. I read the English translation first, then the French and was quite surprised how after reading ... (continue)

I found this nice little dual language version of this story when I was at the Wallace Collection. It's dual language, not facing pages but with the English translation first and then the French version. I read the English translation first, then the French and was quite surprised how after reading the English the French was quite easy to follow along with and I didn't have to go back to the English and remember what was happening cause I'd gotten lost.
The story was a lovely tale of seduction in 18th century France. It was a lot like Dangerous Liasons but without the malice and the tragedy and the moral ending. Here was a story without a moral. It was just a very pleasant tale of a young man being seduced by his mistresses' friend, them having a very enjoyable time, and then going his own way once the woman's husband and lover return. It's sweet and light and the people act very much like people. You could actually see this happening in real life. And the fact that there are no dire consequencdes makes it even better.
The only thing I didn't much care for was the introduction at the begining. Thankfully I read it after I'd finished the story as in addition to giving backgroun on the author's life (though his reputation as the author is still somewhat doubtful) they go almost scene by scene through the story itself. Definitely best to avoid if you don't want spoilers!!

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— Jan 28, 2012 | Add your feedback
- Judgment Day (7)
- By Alan Moore
- Finished on Jan 21, 2012
  
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Judgment Day

This collection of superhero comics on the other hand I did not care for much at all. The only thing I found amusing was that the women superheros were complaining about the outfits of the new superheros, and quite rightly so! I thought it was supposed to be a court version of superheros like top te ... (continue)

This collection of superhero comics on the other hand I did not care for much at all. The only thing I found amusing was that the women superheros were complaining about the outfits of the new superheros, and quite rightly so! I thought it was supposed to be a court version of superheros like top ten was a police version. But instead the court plot took up only three fifths of the book and the rest was mostly filler. The characters seemed to be mostly copied from other superhero books, with a fake superman, womderwoman etc. The story itself about a magical artifact book that could change peoples lives was ok but not very original either. Definitely not one of Moore's best. I'm glad I just borrowed a copy from the library!

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— Jan 22, 2012 | Add your feedback