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 Member 1409 Level 16.87 Mar 2006 
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The last three books I read (for recreation) were...
Title: Watchmen Author: Alan Moore Genre Graphic Novel Description: Watchmen is drama that incorporates moral philosophy, popular culture, history, art, and science. It is set in 1985 in an alternative history America where costumed adventurers are real and the U.S. is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. It follows the story of the last remaining superheroes and the events surrounding the mysterious murder of one of their own. Watchmen presents superheroes as real people who must confront moral as well as personal issues. It is one of the first superhero comic books to present itself as serious literature, and also popularized the more adult-oriented "graphic novel" format. Title: V. Author: Thomas Pynchon Genre: Post-Modern Description: V. is the debut novel of Thomas Pynchon, published in 1963. It describes the exploits of a discharged U.S. Navy sailor named Benny Profane, his reconnection in New York with a group of pseudo-bohemian artists and hangers-on known as the Whole Sick Crew, and the quest of an aging traveller named Herbert Stencil to identify and locate the mysterious entity he knows only as "V." Title: The Great Gatsby Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Genre: Great American Novel Description: The Great Gatsby was first published in 1925. The novel would prove to be Fitzgerald's most accomplished novel, and was an immediate critical success. Despite the favorable reviews, the sales for the novel were disappointing. Within the novel, Fitzgerald uses the character of Nick Carraway as the first-person narrator. It is through Carraway's eyes that we see the other characters and the world they live in. Carraway is the only character in the novel to exhibit, and hold onto, a sense of morals and decency throughout the novel. Symbolism is heavily used, and can be found in both the characters actions and the physical objects. Through the novel, Fitzgerald puts across the idea that the American dream has been corrupted by the desire for materialism. We see that Gatsby had a pure dream, but became corrupt in his quest towards that dream. Jam it back in, in the dark.  “When I slap you you'll take it and like it.” |
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