adumb
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Post by adumb on Jun 6, 2009 0:41:41 GMT -5
Has anyone read this? I started reading it tonight and got about halfway through the second chapter. I was quite confused but figured I would stick it out through later chapters in hope that it started to come together. Has anyone got to read it? Does anyone want to give me their spoiler free opinion about this book?
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Post by houseofmystery on Jun 6, 2009 6:40:15 GMT -5
It's not a comic book, it's an illustrated university dissertation on the Jack the Ripper case?
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jags
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Post by jags on Jun 6, 2009 7:42:32 GMT -5
...or the 513th excuse for Heather Graham to play a whore.
So it's not all bad.
(I actually liked it.)
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jw
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Post by jw on Jun 6, 2009 8:25:57 GMT -5
I loved it, but then, I'm a bit of an amateur (very amateur, actually) Ripperologist. I am a bit queer with my love for Victorian fog-shrouded streets and dark warrens and alleys. The book is dark from beginning to end and very disturbing, the most disturbing of Moore's I've read. You'd almost have to be a bit of a Victorian Anglo-Phile to enjoy the pages of guided tour Moore often treats you to.
It's such a disturbing work that I can only read it every now and then. It's too depressing.
The movie based on the book is also a favorite of mine, though it resembles the book only superficially. I treat them as completely different entities that share only subject matter and the same name (if that makes sense).
JW
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