Loudmouthman

We all have books that we love to read again , again and again. The type of book whose spine has become so worn that the pages are held only by love and luck. The pages of these books bear the history of those moments when we sneezed, coughed, laughed or spilt a little bit of life upon them as we read then over and over again. This is the blog post of  one such book.

WATCHMEN,by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons is the story  of the humanity behind the caped vigilantes and science mutated marvels. Someone is killing off those retired heroes and as the story unfolds you realise the attention to detail in the characters and in the artwork  will keep drawing you into it. I

t reads more like a documentary as if  an investigative  journalist compiled the stories and origins of the individuals concerned.  This Graphic Novel ( an adult term created to accept that fact that its a comic ) apparently set the tone and rejuvenated the industry leading the way for many more Graphic novels to be published.

Its recently has made the jump from paper to digital and the trailers are doing their rounds already. Am I excited ? Hell Yeah ! Like Iron Man before it this is a comic book adaptation that has a strong source material and gravitas which will carry into the medium of film.

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What would happen to the world should the human race vanish in some fantastic fashion ?

The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman discusses the effects our creations and environmental modifications have had upon this planet. By chapters and stages he meets with experts and academics and describes the types of failures, breakdowns and decomposition of the articles of man. He describes in detail how shortlived our property is and in turn how insidious and overwhelming some of our by-products are.

One particular Chapter ( 9: Polymers are forever ) left me with the impression that we will be choking to death on the remants of our packaging or products long before nuclear waste and emissions ever effect us. The scale of the damage to our environment through plastic is mindblowing!

Has the book made me a better environmentalist ? no, but it had adjusted my view as to some of our environmental priorities.

Go buy the book and let me know what you think.

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