The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O’Neill, is a wonderful graphic novel which take several famous (and not-so-famous) literary characters and mix them up together for an adventure of a lifetime. I thought it would be fun to read those classic novels and then the graphic novel to see how the creators managed to take such classics and mix them up all together.
Hence I came up with…
DETAILS/RULES:
1. The goal is to read the classic books and the graphic novel to see how they all tie together. No blog is needed, a review on Amazon, Goodreads, etc. is good enough.
2. What counts: books, eBooks, audio books
3. Crossovers from other reading challenges count.
The books are (in no specific order):
– Dracula by Bram Stoker
– Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
– Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
– The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
– The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells
– Any Fu Manchu novel
– Any Sherlock Holmes novel
– Any Allan Quatermain novel
– Any James Bond novel
and
– The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen graphic novel to tie it all together. (if you don’t have it in your local library Amazon sells aa
affordable issues).
Sign Up:
To sign up simply leave a comment below and I’ll update the page to include your link.
When you sign up, please put the name of your blog and the direct URL link to your blog post (for example: here is mine) where your books will be listed, not a link to your blog’s home page. Also, please put a link back to this post so other readers can sign up as well.
Feel free to use any of the graphics above for your own personal use.
Thank you and enjoy, these are wonderful books.
- My Reader’s Block
- The Conscientious Reader
- Darlene’s Book Nook
- Shelf Fulfilment
- The Oliva Reader
- The Children’s War
- Knitting and Sundries
- MyRandRSpace
- Man of la Book
Zohar – Gentleman of la Book
35 Comments
An interesting challenge … might be a good way to introduce myself to graphic novels.
I’m in! Here’s my post: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/11/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html
Is this a 2012 challenge, perpetual?
It’s perpetual, thanks so much for joining.
Sounds interesting, I’ve read most of these books at some time and love books that allude to others
No fair! Did you have to go and set up this challenge right when I promised not to do any more challenges?
Come on, just one more…
Well, I guess one more doesn’t make a big difference in the grand scheme of things. 🙂 I’m in!
Thanks for making this a Perpetual Challenge! There is a 2012 challenge for this already but, when I saw your perpetual one, I immediately signed up!
What a great selection of books! I think it will be most interesting! Thanks for hosting!!
Here is my blog post: http://darlenesbooknook.blogspot.com/2011/11/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen-of-la.html
Thanks for joining Darlene
your blog is nice..
Thank you
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I love it – and that it doesn’t have a due-date, as I’m perpetually behind on my list of “to be read” things! I don’t have a page link yet – am scheduled for a while already and need to figure out what to move around so I can get this one up soon, and when I do, will post the link here so I can be official… Thanks for the challenge – it’s a great idea, and I look forward to hearing what you/others think about the translation of the characters from their “real” books to TLoEG.
What a great challenge! I wanted to read these books anyway.
Some of my favorite books already on the list…certainly I’ll enjoy the others, and the graphic novel itself. I have a year to do it, eh? I’m in.
Welcome 🙂
Count me in!
Here’s my post: http://shelf-fulfilment.blogspot.com/2011/12/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html
I am finally thinking about reading challenges. I know what perpetual means, but not with regards to reading challenges, so, ould you tell me what you mean by perpetual here?
Perpetual means that there is not time limit, start and end whenever you can.
I’m signing up! Here’s my post about this challenge: http://theolivareader.blogspot.com/2011/12/league-of-extraordinary-gentleman-book.html
I’m looking forwward to this challenge.
It may be slow going, but count me in. Here is my direct link (sorry I listed it with my other challenges,but I am a little late to the dance (again) http://thechildrenswar.blogspot.com/2011/12/omg-another-list-2012-reading.html
Such a cool challenge! Here is my post: http://www.knittingandsundries.com/2012/01/league-of-extraordinary-gentle-men-of.html
Just want to make sure I’m in–I don’t see my name on the list of participants. My link is above (second post or so) and here again as well: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2011/11/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html
Thanks for getting me on the list. I’ve got one down (The Invisible Man) and more to come!
i hope i can still join
Of course you can.
Make sure to live a link.
I love the book list. Looking forward to the challenge.
I am not sure why my earlier comment did not get saved.. so here it is again..
http://myrandrspace.blogspot.com/2011/11/super-saturday-my-2012-challengesi-need.html
http://myrandrspace.blogspot.com/2011/12/league-of-extraordinary-gentlemen.html
Four down! Almost half-way done…
Excellent…
Make that five…Casino Royale review is now up. Half-way done, headed into the home-stretch.
Great job.
Finished off King Solomon’s Mines (Quartermain book)….
Just finished Jekyll & Hyde to day. As soon as I read a Fu Manchu book, I’ll be done.
Fu-Manchu now complete! Wrap-up post coming soon. Thanks for hosting this challenge. I’ve had a great time with it!
Here’s my Wrap-up: http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2012/06/challenge-complete-league-of.html
I just love those banners! What a great set-up. Hopefully “Part 1 indicates there is more coming.