100 Novels That Are Not Quite as Good as Watchmen

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Let's celebrate the crossing-over of Watchmen to the medium of cinema by putting a certain other more-respectable medium in its place...

1. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

i am an evil halfperson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 February 2009 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link

2. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

chap, Friday, 27 February 2009 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link

3. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 27 February 2009 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link

4. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 27 February 2009 13:10 (fifteen years ago) link

5. Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 27 February 2009 13:11 (fifteen years ago) link

6. My Life on a Plate by India Knight

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Friday, 27 February 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link

7. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolffe

chap, Friday, 27 February 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link

8 Portnoy's Complaint by Phillip Roth

Oilyrags, Friday, 27 February 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link

9. Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore

chap, Friday, 27 February 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

10. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

i am an evil halfperson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 February 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link

11. On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 27 February 2009 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link

12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

i am an evil halfperson (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 27 February 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link

13. Fear of Flying by Erica Jong

earlnash, Saturday, 28 February 2009 03:25 (fifteen years ago) link

14. Watchmen: the Official Adaptation of the Motion Picture

i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Saturday, 28 February 2009 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I'd like to think that you're kidding, but this morning the lady in the next cube was talking about how the novelisation of the movie "Constantine" kept her up all night.

Oilyrags, Saturday, 28 February 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link

15. Anything by Pahlaniuk

Fight scenes don't hold a candle to Asian action (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:35 (fifteen years ago) link

16. The Remnant: On the Brink of Armagedon by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link

17. The Devil's Tune by Iain Duncan Smith

Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 28 February 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link

18. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

Rufio! Rufio! (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link

19. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

Rufio! Rufio! (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link

20. Lunar Park by Brett Easton Ellis

Rufio! Rufio! (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link

21. Frankenstein by Mary Wolstencraft Shelly

Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Saturday, 28 February 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link

22. Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

that would ok (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link

23. Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins

earlnash, Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link

hey now

they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

24. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (it's good, but Watchmen is slightly better...)

they dont know bout us and theyve never heard of drugs (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 1 March 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link

25. john kennedy toole "a confederacy of dunces"

ian, Monday, 2 March 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Most pointless thread on ILC in a long time.

James Morrison, Monday, 2 March 2009 07:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Not necessarily a bad thing.

chap, Monday, 2 March 2009 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Most pointless thread on ILC in a long time.

That's what I'm here for, dude!

Intelligence Lends Mojo (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link

fuck this, let's think of 100 novels that aren't as good as 'marmaduke.'

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 8 March 2009 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link

1. Watchmen

Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Sunday, 8 March 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link

Sorry.

Thrills as Cheap as Gas (Oilyrags), Sunday, 8 March 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link

How about 100 comics that are better than Watchmen?

Not a difficult task!

simonhacking, Monday, 9 March 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link


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