4/08/2009

Latest Books

Books I finished in the last little while, but not really deserving of their own post.
watchmen
the world according to garp
the spy who came in from the cold
atonement

3 comments:

Matt said...

Did you like Watchmen?

CV said...

That is a very interesting question. I thought it was a great plot. I thought that the art added a lot to the story. I thought that there were a lot of interesting aspects to the book that made me ponder morality. But there was no character development. I feel like it is an inherent flaw in the graphic novel genre that it is much more difficult to make a reader care about a character. As an example, when Rorschach is killed it was one of the most psychologically compelling parts of the book. But I didn’t care that he was dead. Whether he lived or died was important to what Moore was trying to say with the book, but I didn’t care one way or the other. So the short answer I think is yes I liked it, but I won’t buy it and I probably won’t read it again.

CV said...

I admit that a lot of that has to do with the type of book I like. All of my favorite books have a character that i like and relate to, and so that is something i like in a book.