Post by Administrator on Oct 17, 2005 13:35:30 GMT -5
Time Magazine Book critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo recently published their list of the 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to the present, and the graphic novel didn’t go unrepresented.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s landmark Watchman made it onto the list, joining such modern literary stalwarts as The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, and 1984.
Here is what Grossman wrote about Watchmen:
”Watchmen is a graphic novel—a book-length comic book with ambitions above its station—starring a ragbag of bizarre, damaged, retired superheroes: the paunchy, melancholic Nite Owl; the raving doomsayer Rorschach; the blue, glowing, near-omnipotent, no-longer-human Doctor Manhattan. Though their heyday is past, these former crime-fighters are drawn back into action by the murder of a former teammate, The Comedian, which turns out to be the leading edge of a much wider, more disturbing conspiracy. Told with ruthless psychological realism, in fugal, overlapping plotlines and gorgeous, cinematic panels rich with repeating motifs, Watchmen is a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium.”
Readers can rate each book (on their indvidual pages) on a scale of 1 to 5, and for a time Watchmen had the highest Reader Rating of any of the Top 100, with an average rating of 4.83 (of a possible 5). Though by Monday afternoon its rating had slipped somewhat to 4.69 (good for 4th highest rating).
Comic book fans can submit their rating on the bottom of this page: www.time.com/time/2005/100bo...atchmen,00.html
Time does not report the number of reader respondees.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s landmark Watchman made it onto the list, joining such modern literary stalwarts as The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, and 1984.
Here is what Grossman wrote about Watchmen:
”Watchmen is a graphic novel—a book-length comic book with ambitions above its station—starring a ragbag of bizarre, damaged, retired superheroes: the paunchy, melancholic Nite Owl; the raving doomsayer Rorschach; the blue, glowing, near-omnipotent, no-longer-human Doctor Manhattan. Though their heyday is past, these former crime-fighters are drawn back into action by the murder of a former teammate, The Comedian, which turns out to be the leading edge of a much wider, more disturbing conspiracy. Told with ruthless psychological realism, in fugal, overlapping plotlines and gorgeous, cinematic panels rich with repeating motifs, Watchmen is a heart-pounding, heartbreaking read and a watershed in the evolution of a young medium.”
Readers can rate each book (on their indvidual pages) on a scale of 1 to 5, and for a time Watchmen had the highest Reader Rating of any of the Top 100, with an average rating of 4.83 (of a possible 5). Though by Monday afternoon its rating had slipped somewhat to 4.69 (good for 4th highest rating).
Comic book fans can submit their rating on the bottom of this page: www.time.com/time/2005/100bo...atchmen,00.html
Time does not report the number of reader respondees.