
Illuminations
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Alan Moore
Bloomsbury presents Illuminations by Alan Moore, read by Rory Kinnear, Emilia Fox, Laura Haddock, Nina Sosanya, Toby Jones, Clarke Peters, Mark Meadows, Sian Clifford, Alan Moore and Matt Reeves.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE
From New York Times bestselling author Alan Moore—one of the most influential writers in the history of comics—“a dynamite story collection” (The New York Times Book Review) which takes us to the fantastical underside of reality.
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a series of wildly different and equally unforgettable characters who discover—and in some cases even make and unmake—the various uncharted parts of existence.
In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a paranormal study group is infiltrated by one of the otherworldly beings they seek to investigate. In "Illuminations," a nostalgic older man decides to visit a seaside resort from his youth and finds the past all too close at hand. And in the monumental novella "What We Can Know About Thunderman," which charts the surreal and Kafkaesque history of the comics industry's major players over the last seventy-five years, Moore reveals the dark, beating heart of the superhero business.
From ghosts and otherworldly creatures to theoretical Boltzmann brains fashioning the universe at the big bang, Illuminations is exactly that—a series of bright, startling tales from a contemporary legend that reveal the full power of imagination and magic.
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Meh
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Others are great! I. Loved the big bang story. Also several othets. Kinda half/half..
The cartoon stuff (half the book) I dont understand at all, so I will return it 🙁
Some stuff is awesome
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Excellent Stories; Supremely Annoying Lack of Chapter Titles
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its good
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A good collection that makes you think.
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Usually I rever Alan Moore as one of the masters, but here hope alone, that something good would turn out of the stories, kept me going through all of them.
Especially the loooong story about Thunderman/the comics industri, seemed to me to be for insiders only. Even though the dialogue here and there made me think of a Quentin Tarrantino movie.
The Hypothetical Lizard was by far my favorite story and not for it's plot, nor characters. But the bizarre setting.
Too intellectual, experimenting or
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