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Sin City, where true perversion is king – dive into all these sick, disgusting torture snuff horror holes filled with totally bonkers people – it’s a hell of a ride!

I can’t imagine what it was like for a comic reader to pick this up and read it for the first time back in 1991! It would have blown people’s minds on so many levels. It’s an absolute must-read as one of the most essential comic book series ever written. It’s not perfect, but what it does well, it does well. It’s ultimately a lad’s fantasy, which some may see as a negative.

It’s a lousy room in a lousy part of a lousy town. But Marv doesn’t care. There’s an angel in the room. She says her name is Goldie. A few hours later, Goldie’s dead without a mark on her perfect body, and the cops are coming before anyone but Marv could know she’s been killed. Somebody paid good money for this frame…

Marv and Goldie sinned together for one unforgettable night. From there, the main protagonist struggles, kills, and tortures through a completely spoiled universe of corruption, destruction, and mental self-annihilation. Much violence and sex are just thrown in between without any real plot potential, just for the fun of it. Just as other grim graphic novel pearls like Transmetropolitan and Preacher do.

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Writer-artist Frank Miller rose to fame within the American comics industry with his 1981–1983 work on Marvel Comics’ Daredevil, and the 1986 DC Comics miniseries The Dark Knight Returns, both of which exhibited subtle elements of film noir.

_{Frank Miller poses with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, books that he helped inspire— in 1985}

The book would later be turned in to a movie …

Sin City (also known as Frank Miller’s Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller based on Miller’s comic book series of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, and Elijah Wood, and featuring Michael Clarke Duncan, Rosario Dawson, Rutger Hauer, Michael Madsen among others.

_{Bill Bryson’s first travel book, The Lost Continent, was unanimously acclaimed as one of the funniest books in years. In Neither Here Nor There he brings his unique brand of humour to bear on Europe as he shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet, and journeys from Hammerfest, the northernmost town on the continent, to Istanbul on the cusp of Asia.}

_{Fluent in, oh, at least one language, he retraces his travels as a student twenty years before.
Whether braving the homicidal motorist of Paris, being robbed by gypsies in Florence, attempting not to order tripe and eyeballs in a German restaurant, window-shopping in the sex shops of the Reeperbahn or disputing his hotel bill in Copenhagen, Bryson takes in the sights, dissects the culture and illuminates each place and person with his hilariously caustic observations. He even goes to Liechtenstein.}

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_{Bill Bryson (born 8 December 1951) is an American-British journalist and author. Bryson has written a number of nonfiction books on topics including travel, the English language, and science. Born in the United States, he has been a resident of Britain for most of his adult life, returning to the U.S. between 1995 and 2003, and holds dual American and British citizenship. He served as the chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.}

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