New Review: Alan Moore's Batman - The Killing Joke
November 11, 2001 (9:32 PM) ( link )

ADDED a review for Alan Moore's Batman - The Killing Joke (graphic novel). Not a particularly great work by Moore—certainly not in the same league as his wonderful The Watchmen—but short and interesting nevertheless.

I bought Ali two books yesterday for her birthday: Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, two of the greatest books that I've ever read. As I explained to Shuko, I consider these books great because there is almost nothing about them that I would want to change (when it comes to plot; I'm completely unequipped still to deal with issues of style). When I saw Ali at dinner today, she was still reading compulsively through Ender's Game, and now Shuko and Steph also want to read it after Ali's done. This is good. In fact, I feel so good about this that I pledge to start reading A Suitable Boy tomorrow--I'm just going to sit down, open the book, and start reading. Since tomorrow is a holiday this shouldn't be too hard (my work be damned!).

In other reading nows: Lord of Light is getting really, really, really interesting. This is definitely a work whose primary appeal lies in the marvelous world that Zelazny has created. But slowly the character of Sam is becoming ever more concrete in my mind, and I'm hoping that by the end of the book I will remember not only Zelazny's imaginative world-building but also his compelling characters. I'm about a fourth of the way through the book right now, and it is slowly approaching the stage at which it becomes un-put-down-able.