I liked the movie, but the novelization was better only because it wasn't as confusing, I now understand parts that were kind of incomprehensible to me back when I saw this movie. That could be because it was so many years ago, or because I only saw parts, not the whole movie. Interesting to read this during an insurrection in the middle of a pandemic, totally meant more to me because of that.
An excellent storyline and plot, our protagonists are fully human and the characters are so well written that you almost feel that you know them, they could be your neighbor on your street. The bad guys are truly bad but then some people just are, I have to say that reading it at this moment in time I felt I knew a lot of these bad guys too. Some are only playing at being bad because they are so caught up in their imaginary lies, but some not only were bad at the beginning of their government take over but they became even worse. I don't want to spoil it for you so I'll just say read it. I gave it 4* because I'm keeping it for Brennan in the Library and will probably reread it at some point.

Novel depiction of the movie. It was well done

Great novelization. Exactly what I was looking for when I decided to read this book. The story is amazing, the ideas are sound, the characterizations are great, and it is so applicable to our own world. I think I fell in love with V a bit, myself.

This is a book about an England in a dark future in which a chain reaction of bad things occurred that has led to a fascist government. I enjoyed this book. It has some strong characters and uses events from the past to help develop the events of the future. I do suspect the creator of the story has some strong political views that were hinted at in the book, but I read books for entertainment and could not care less about what an author thinks politically. For entertainment value, this is a good book and I'd recommend it.

(4.7)

This novelization of the movie is a lot more appropriate than the comic. However, there have been some minor changes to plot/descriptions from the original. Those are listed below the recommended age.

My review for the comic is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Recommended age 15+ for hard violence, language, sexuality, non-graphic nudity, and a lesbian couple.

Changes:
1. The opening scene with Evey has her actually being late for curfew, instead of working the streets. Also, the men make more blunt sexual statements here than in the comic or even movie.

2. Every time the priest is mentioned, it's more blunt than the comics. Yet the only scene of true concern with more description is the priest scene. (You know which one I'm talking about.)

3. Evey is actually stripped down while being tortured, but that's all they say.

Definitely not on the same level of the graphic novel, but that was to be expected.
The story itself is beautiful and worth reading, the style is not up to par, too descriptive and plain - being a script novelization, the subtleties that are conveyed by acting are lost in a narration that explains way too much. I'm not completely sure about the 3 stars, but I felt 2 would be too much of a punishment for a book that was, after all, at least pleasurable to read

V for Vendetta was published as a comic book, of if you prefer, a graphic novel, by Alan Moore. I heard an audiobook version of the novelization by Steve Moore based on the movie screenplay written by the Wachowsky Brothers. According to Wikipedia Alan Moore and Steve Moore were unrelated. They were friends and collaborators. Steve Moore was a cartoonist who mentored Alan Moore.

After I started the audiobook, I downloaded the comic book. On my desktop monitor, the page is 11" high and 7" wide. The print is small and difficult to read with my old eyes. I didn't read the comic book but I did compare a little bit. The novel is different from the comic book in the way that a movie can be different from the book. I'm curious about the comic book. How different is it from the movie? From the novel?

V for Vendetta is different from most dystopian novels in that  the protagonist, V, is never in doubt about the final outcome. And it is not a fight of freedom vs oppression; it is revenge, perhaps in the guise of good vs evil. But V does bad things; he is no saint.

The novelization of V for Vendetta chronicles the final year of a fascist English regime from the perspectives of Evey Hammond, the orphaned daughter of parents who became political and Inspector Finch, a NorseFire party member and everyday copper trying to solve the mystery of who V is.

The story, through Finch's narrative, tries to pinpoint the where, when, and how of England's immersion and eventual submersion in the fascist political process, but because Finch is distrustful of V's perspective and the party line many conclusions are left to the reader. At the same moments Evey is stretched between her parent's past which orphaned her, the chance meeting between V and herself, and the desire to just blend into the current political state.

I'll dig up the comic next and watch the movie afterwards. The novelization was well worth the read.

I really enjoyed this novelization of Wachowski's film version of V for Vendetta. While I understand the objections of Alan Moore (the graphic novelist who originated the V for Vendetta story)--namely that this version doesn't focus on a fascism vs. anarchy conflict--I still found this story to be highly entertaining, thought provoking, and relevant to our current political climate.

Furthermore, I loved V's vivacious verbosity! His monologue when he first introduces himself to Evey was such a delight to read--I'm always happy when I read something that demands a reader's intellectual engagement!

Take Sam Vimes, the police chief from the comedic fantasy novels of Sir Terry Pratchett, drop him into a dark alternate history, and you have Eric Finch. Of course the honest hardworking cop who would still rather be a beat constable rather than in upper management is hardly an original trope, but Finch’s relationship with the sadistic unaccountable Fingermen is definitely parallel to Vimes’ relationship with the equally vicious Unmentionables. That the core of what makes Sam Vines the resonating character he is even when transported to a non-comedic work, is as much a tribute to Pratchett as it is to Moore.

Certainly Finch is more sympathetic than the ostensible “good guy” of the novel V, who crosses the line midway through when he does something to the protagonist Evey that I can’t disclose lest I spoil the book.

For a film novelization, the book did relatively well at getting into the heads of characters rather than maintaining a camera’s viewpoint, except for the coverage of Deitrich’s ill-considered broadcast, a highly visual scene that reads like a screenplay reformatted as prose.

I loved the movie and wanted to read the book, not realizing it was a novelization of the movie. Although I knew that going in, I still enjoyed this book quite a bit. I will say that the writing was somewhat poor at times but I listened to the audiobook with Simon Vance as the reader, and he can make anything sound like a masterpiece! :) I did like some of the further explanations and scenes that were not in the movie.

This is a very very good audio interpretation of the mass-market novelization, which is, in turn, an extension of the screenplay with some extra character development. The narration is superb, and some characters are better than in the film, yet interestingly enough, are all played by the same man. Simon Vance is an exceptional voice actor and makes the ridiculousness of reading a cinematic novelization all the better.