Brain want words!

Mar 08, 2009 10:39

So. I found Watchmen among my brother's books at the house and I figured I'd borrow it. I might not bother with the movie, but it is the only graphic novel to make Time's top 100 novels list.

I'm about 5 pages in and I've discovered something about myself. For every dialogue-free cell, my brain starts supplying narrative: He walked down the dark and ( Read more... )

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azarule March 8 2009, 21:29:23 UTC
The Watchmen movie has a 10-minute-long sequence that's ALL narration.

Eh? Eh?

Also: Fiji? I see myself in more of a "middle-of-nowhere-with-friends-empty-beaches-clear-blue-waters-nothing-but-time-but-still-has-broadband" kind of place.

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papayarain March 9 2009, 15:00:00 UTC
It was a hard switch for me, and your complaint is very common among the writer types. :) Go figure. Writers like narrative. Who would have guessed?

Either way, the "novel" excerpts help a great deal, and I have a feeling you'll enjoy those more than the actual graphic novel itself.

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