Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore

Gran colección de obras de Alan Moore, casi todas son joyas por si mismas y los ensayos son muy valiosos!

A great Moore collection. Not one of these was I already familiar with. Shows the wide scope of his work and talent. Though, Moore's art is so good that the essays are not needed. However, I like to study and the getting into these stories and what spawned them is a fantastic bonus.

Some of the stories printed in this collection of short stories I already had with some older comic books and anthologies I possessed. After reading through this collection and the subsequent essays it gave me a better understanding of the stories and insights into what they were trying to covey as well. Additionally it also gave me further insight into Alan Moore as a writer whose works I have been reading since my mid to early teens and continue to read to this day. Currently reading Jerusalem and that is a fairly dense bit of literature with what little I have read so far. Overall this gave me more insights into Moore's writing, his life, and why he had the falling outs with the big 2. If you are a fan of great writing and a fan of Moore I would highly recommend this book to you, and to be honest to any one in general. Overall a really fantastic read.

Really good edition for a paperback, the stories by Moore are - as often is the case - a thing of beauty, and the essays provide excellent reference material - social context, publication history, other works' influences, that sort of things. However, I was slightly disappointed by the fact that they do not really qualify as academic criticism, literary theory is never coeherently employed in the analysis of these stories, and that's definetely a pity and a wasted occasion.

Not just for the Alan Moore completist. This book has "The Bowing Machine" and "Brighter Than You Think," two of his best short works. The introductory text is really helpful, too. You learn where each piece was published and the circumstances that made it happen. This book is pretty fantastic.