twunny
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Joined: 02 Jan 2006
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Location: Woodside, Queens, New York
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 Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: 10. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd |
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This book came from left field for me in a lot of ways. The only exposure I had to it was, unfortunately, publicity for the movie. And of course, it looked like something action-packed. I loved the fact that the book was not action-based.
Other people that have posted about it mentioned its themes. My favorite theme was that of silence vs. noise. At one point, V says something like "The size of the noise is determined by the length of the silence preceding it. The leaders have forgotten how much noise the people can make, and they don't like it." That really spoke to me.
In a weird way, this book seemed very Japanese to me. When reading the afterword, or whatever you'd call it, Alan Moore discussed his influences for the story. Nothing Japanese was ,mentioned and yet I can't shake the feeling. The "Ghost in the Shell" flims particularly parallel. I'm not really sure why I brought that up. Food for thought, I suppose.
Thanks to crystaldear for buying the book and leaving it laying around so I could read it. Who knows where we'd be without each other.
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