Illuminations book cover1/24/2024 ![]() I remember sitting in my high school boyfriend’s bedroom, perusing his bookshelf, when something about that bloody smiley face just called to me. ![]() Mine, fortunately or unfortunately depending on the way you look at it, was Watchmen. Question for you: what was the first graphic novel or comic book you read? My Blog | The StoryGraph | Facebook | Twitter ![]() This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book. My thanks to Bloomsbury USA and NetGalley for the DRC of “Illuminations: Stories”. These ratings ranged from 1 star to 3 stars.Ģ stars, rounding up from my average rating for each of the stories. I did rate the stories individually as I always do, but except for the first story – a 4 star, none of the others reached satisfying ratings. But the current read did nothing for my spirit. This might have clicked differently with me had I picked it up in a different mindspace. On the pro side, the vocabulary is outstanding! The bizarre creativity of the author shows up in glimpses. I especially wasn’t prepared for a 200+ page “novella” (‘What We Can Know About Thunderman’) to be included herein that’s like reading a whole book by itself! It threw my reading schedule for a toss. With 9 stories spread over 464 pages, the tales were more novella length than short fiction. To add to the fact, I go in for anthologies with certain length expectations as I read the stories whenever I can squeeze a few minutes out of my schedule. The stories were too meandering and verbose to present a submersive experience. The first story, “A Hypothetical Lizard” mostly met my expectations. I grabbed this from NetGalley mainly for the author (‘Watchmen’ is almost like a master class for adult comic lovers), and partly for the concept. In a Nutshell: This anthology will find its niche audience. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.įrom ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that-a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover-and in some cases even make and unmake-the various uncharted parts of existence.
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