Foe
Reading “Foe” took me directly back to when I was a child, and my parents forced me (didn’t let me read other books until I finished this one) to read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”. While I look back on … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Podcast: The Waste Land and Foe
Discussion with Jon Beasley-Murray and Kevin McNeilly
Foe
As part of the Arts One Digital initiative (which I’ve mentioned before, we’re recording various lectures delivered as part of UBC’s “Arts One” program. You can see for instance my lecture on J M Coetzee’s Foe here, in various formats. … Continue reading →
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
Video of lecture by Kevin McNeilly for the “Monster in the Mirror” theme
Watchmen
SKDHFLASJHFLADJGF;LKAJSLFKJAS;LKFJASLKFJSDHFPOUAHTPOWUASFLKJAS;KJF;SDFs In other words………… Best. Book. Ever. (Okay, maybe not EVER, but you get my drift) Seriously, not joking, no kidding around, this book was fantastic. The best way to end off the ArtsOne reading list. I couldn’t believe how much emotional complexity there was in the characters. I couldn’t put this book down. I […] Continue reading →
Watchmen
That was a very welcome and interesting change of pace. I’m not sure what I was expecting really, but I was surprized by how dark it was. I mean, I wasn’t expecting it to be any kind of classic superhero story, but there were definitely a lot of turns I didn’t see coming, which was […]
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Watchmen
The back cover of this states that this book changed an industry and challenged a medium, and I can believe it. This is a graphic novel written by someone who knows how to write graphic novels and drawn by someone who knows how to draw graphic novels. There is a near perfect amount and tone […]
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Watchmen
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen offers something of a counter-factual history of the Cold War. In particular, it imagines the central role of two generations of masked do-gooders: a 1940s cohort of “Minutemen,” most of whom are somewhat ephemeral … Continue reading →
Watchmen: Mediums and close-minded people.
What a grand finale. Watchmen is honestly one of the greatest pieces of literature I’ve ever read, and it just gets better and better upon each reading. Each chapter is so diverse and has so many existential ideas and thought provoking themes. What would the apparent presence of a deity do to our society? How […]
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Heroism Grows Up
I think I could argue that there are more important statements about Life (with a capital L) in this novel, then in something by Rousseau or Hobbes. There is something about an actual story of people trying to achieve humanity. … Continue reading → Continue reading →