So! I wasn't even going to click on this thread at first but then I did and I'm glad. First I see that a lot of people are mentioning Watchmen. not to pull a thenewgreen but Did you know, Hubski has a book club? #hubskibookclub And better yet, we all read Watchmen together and discussed it! If you're interested in what we said, or if you want to talk it over or think we've missed something, please totally pick it up in the thread wherever it's appropriate. On Hubski good threads never die. Part 1 - Watchmen Part 2 - Watchmen I'm going to go out on a limb and shout-out to new users who recommended Watchmen just in case y'all aren't watching this thread and might be interested. Reynard_Austin havires rob05c exNihilo Second off OMG SWAMP THING. I'm really glad to see so many people like Swamp Thing...I've actually...ahem...gotten very enthusiastic about it here on Hubski. In fact it gets better I talk about Swamp Thing in the aforementioned Book Club Watchmen thread. Any time any of you wanna talk Swamp Thing I'm down, although I've only read through the 3rd or 4th book. (I hear it's crap after that though.) I also second rob's suggestion of Blankets and insom's suggestion of V for Vendetta - totally different from the movie, btw. And if you like/d Blankets check out Stitches - it's in a similar vein.
I just followed the #hubskibookclub and will keep an eye out for any discussion or suggestion to jump in on. And I'm always done to talk swamp thing! I'm actually reading Hellblazer now which is a spin off of Swamp Thing starring the one and only John Constantine. It's written by a different writer, but it's still excellent. The first trade paper back is 20 bucks and quite large, and I can't suggest it enough.
Yeah I know there's a book club, but procuring some of the books mentioned (I've looked at one or two of the previous ones) is going to be a tad difficult since I don't have the funds. Yeah I'd totally be down to read and jump into that conversation, I wasn't aware that it had been read and discussed, so thanks for that link. I've never actually read V though, but I was assuming that it was as good as the movie was (I personally enjoyed it).
What I had meant was, say they were going to read Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) and I didn't have it (I do, the book and movie aren't comparable, because they're both excellent for what they did), then I would just skip over it. Maybe tossing in a vote for something like Nueromancer by William Gibson (which I do have). It's been about three years since I read Watchmen, so that's why I'm piggy backing posts in the second half of the conversation, once again thanks for the link.