Books I've read this year

[hils]

1. The Life of Nelson - Robert Southey
2. The Last Days of Krypton - Kevin J. Anderson
3. New X-Men - Grant Morrison
4. This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
5. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
6. Superman Returns - Marv Wolfman
7. Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
8. Buffy Omnibus vol 1 - Misc
9. Buffy Omnibus vol 2 - Misc
10. Spike: Shadow Puppets - Brian Lynch
11. A Portrait of Lord Nelson - Oliver Warner
12. Anything Goes - John Barrowman
13. 500 Reasons Why I Hate The Office - Malcolm Burgess
14. Watchmen - Alan Moore

I spent the first half of this book feeling rather confused and the second half thinking it was awesome and when I got to the end I couldn't decide whether I was supposed to be happy with the way it ended or not. LOL! I will be very surprised if the film ending is the same as the book

Back to my Nelson book now

Comments

[flickums.livejournal.com]

They can't change the ending.

It would be bad.

[hils.livejournal.com]

I bet they do

[flickums.livejournal.com]

Then I shall form an angry mob of geeks (we have plastic lightsabres instead of pitchforks and bat signal torches instead of the flamey kind) and make them change it back!!

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Good luck with that

[(Anonymous)]

I read Watchers in Norwegian back in the 80's and I remember being very taken by it. "Who watches the watchmen?"
But I can't really remember now how it ended :-) Thought it was hardly a happy ending, it was not that kind of a book. Possibly you mean the ending is too grim for Hollyweird?
I should probably read it again now in English, but then maybe I would just prefer to see the movie without too recent memories of what the book was actually like.

[nessaancalime.livejournal.com]

And that was me, forgetting to log in :-)

[hils.livejournal.com]

LOL! I'll reply here then

The ending is definitely too grim and morally ambiguous for Hollywood. I'll be very surprised if they don't change it

[flickums.livejournal.com]

I'll be very surprised if they *DO* change it.

It would be like Disney making a version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and giving it a happy ending!

Oh wait...

[hils.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think you just answered your own question. LOL!