10 Maybe-Favorite Books [EDIT]
This falls into the category of "Innapropriate Things To Think About While You're Sitting Sesshin". And I'm not entirely sure that these are my actual _favorites_, just some I like and think are significant - or have just liked for a very long time
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Not sure what "Watchmen" is about - but Bill Watterson is my hero. Define "serious". :-)
Incidentally, if I can claim all of Harry Potter as one book, the Hitchhiker... err... Trilogy could easily be construed as a single book too, no?
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Rowling has pretty much conceived and written the Potter books as a unit... a long story with a definite beginning and a definite end. The Hitchhiker's novels are very definitely not executed this way. (Douglas claimed that he didn't even really want to write So Long as a Hitchhiker's novel, or even write Mostly Harmless at all... he just wanted a definitive reason to stop writing Hitchhiker's novels, which is why Mostly Harmless ends the way it does. For that matter, Asimov also claimed to have written the later Foundation novels under duress.)
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1. By "serious" I mean "not funny."
2. Watchmen is a comic book miniseries about superheroes. But it's not a superhero story. It's a story that's about something else that just happens to involve (or more accurately, costumed vigilantes... only one character in the entire book has honest superpowers). It's the only piece of superhero literature I've ever read that really, truly, seriously questions the necessity of superheroes.
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