📚 Finished listening to V for Vendetta by Steve Moore.

This V for Vendetta is the novelisation of the film V for Vendetta, which is the film of the graphic novel V for Vendetta. Which I listened to in audio form. So there’s a lot of format switching going on in that journey. Nonetheless, I still very much enjoyed it, and plan to give it a whirl in its other available forms at some point.

It must be said that it probably wasn’t the greatest idea for me to be multitasking this book with Julia given the similarities in plot and starring characters. But they are distinctly different enough for any genre fans to give a go.

Both famously feature a female citizen’s growth and struggle against a totalitarian regime. However the regimes concerned are codes as opposing ends of the left-right political spectrum (remember that?). The totalitarian world of 1984 gives off Communist vibes. Here, the totalitarian Norsefire regime has arisen in a crisis-laden Britain by promoting neo-fascist, racist, sexist, Christian fundamentalist, and homophobic policies using the propagandising politics of fear to corruptly gain power and wealth whilst attempting to wholly eradicate immigrants and other disfavoured minorities from the country.

I know, I know, it’s impossible to imagine anything like that happening here now (umm, eergh, oh no). Well, let us hope, if we do continue on this trajectory that as a population we too remember, remember at least the metaphorical occurrences of V & Evey’s November 5th.