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V for Vendetta
As a novel, this actually works really well - it's better than the movie which comes across - to me anyway - as miscast and shallow. Steve Moore has long been an arms-length associate of Alan Moore (no relation) and he has a definite feel for his work, which this novel does capture in spirit - and of course the basis of the plot in New Labour Britain is still piercingly valid. Keep an open mind and have a jolly good read!
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Synopsis
Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy: a world of the not-too-distant future, in which freedom was not lost, but surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime that rose to power by exploiting people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman who is saved from death by a masked vigilante calling himself only V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and seizes the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens to wake up and shed the blanket of tyranny and oppression in which they have permitted themselves to be cloaked. While those in power take steps to neutralise the threat, the police pursue the mystery of V, unaware of the terrible truth that awaits them at the end of the trail. It is Evey, however, who, with V as her untrustworthy guide, sets out on the most painful path of all: a journey of deception, and self-discovery, deconstruction and re-creation, vindication and vengeance.
Try it with an open mind
Review date: 2006-03-25 Rating: 8 out of 10
Yes - of course this is not as good as the original comic book. But a novel is a different medium and works of art drift through the media - such as Verdi's operas of Shakespeare - and, um, the comic book adaptation of Macbeth.
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Reviews
Ridiculess
Review date: 2006-02-17 Rating: 2 out of 10
Why adapt an adaptation?
Don't waste your money.
Go see the film, it's much better.
I've never read the comic but I'd advise that over this as that is the original V book. As one reviewer pointed out, it's like a book adaptation of the LOTR films.
Don't be stupid enough to read this pile of garbage.
Pointless
Review date: 2006-02-11 Rating: 2 out of 10
Almost as pointless as the proposed 'novelisation' of Lord of The Rings'.
Buy the comic, the only V that counts.
Beware of this little detail.
Review date: 2006-01-28 Rating: 10 out of 10
First there was the comic book by ALAN Moore on which all the rave reviews are based.
Then there was a very, very loose film interpretation.
And now there is a novilisation of the film version of the story by STEVEN Moore. Same last name, diffirent first and really wholly a diffirent person (and diffirent medium, only words here).
(rating is for the original comic by Alan -not Steven- Moore)
Just so you know.
Product Details/Specifications
Authors:
Steve Moore
David Lloyd
Steve Moore (Novelization)
Recording label: Pocket Books
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
EAN: 9781416516996
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ISBN: 1416516999
Number of items: 1
Number of pages: 368
Publication date: 2006-03-06
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Published)