I think the book would have been much better if it hadn't started life as a story serialized in umpty-umpty short little chapters. Out of necessity, the plot is stretched out to the point where I actually got a little impatient with it on the first reading - the length between significant plot points is a tad frustrating. If he'd done it as a miniseries, it probably would have flowed much better. (Of course, he did the 'Jaspers Warp' storyline in Captain Britain largely in the short-little-bits format, and I persoanlly think that's one of the best things he's ever done, but then that was a different type of story, and he didn't have to create the characters as he went along.) Also, I thought the movie had a bit more logic to its plot in certain ways - V blowing up Parliament as the climax of the film rather than the beginning makes more sense to me, given the Guy Fawkes parallel - it works better as a glorious last gesture. Also, the bit at the end with all the masks is just glorious. Mind you, I loved the book, too - if nothing else, it gave us the 'Vicious Cabaret' sequence, which is a great little bit, and Moore is Moore - but generally speaking, I prefer the movie. Incidentally, I don't mean to sound like I'm giving a sales pitch or anything, but if you're into 'VfV', there's a message board I've been posting on for a while called 'V for Vendetta 2'. It is, in theory, anyway, devoted to discussing the book and movie (although we've branched out into a lot of other stuff by now). We're very short of active participants at the moment, so if you'd care to check it out...