Correct!
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2015 13:57 (eight years ago) link
Probably also the only time Stephen King and George R. R. Martin have written X-Men?
― Tuomas, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
in one book? yeah that sounds likely.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 September 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
I can't bear to look at that photo in the first post, his beard just looks so unhygienic :(
― soref, Monday, 28 September 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-09/29/electricomics-alan-moore-interview
― koogs, Thursday, 1 October 2015 08:35 (eight years ago) link
electricomics kinda sucks by the way. adds a new and totally unnecessary complication to reading a book.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
i am interested in the comics and open source aspects of this (although i'm unsure as to what it actually is...). but then they go and make it ipad-only which seems at odds with the second bit.
― koogs, Thursday, 1 October 2015 12:51 (eight years ago) link
It's pretty ropey, looks like the web circa 1998. Thrillbent (which I subscribed to for a while, then got bored) doing a much better job. But it's kind of a "be number one in a field of none" opportunity.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 1 October 2015 13:40 (eight years ago) link
Coleen
McKay
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 1 October 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
in fairness to wired, those appear to be consistent errors on Moore's partthough maybe you should edit the email responses you get prior to publishing? just a thought.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
As Moore doesn't use email, it's unlikely to be his error, and Coleen is not consistent even in the same paragraph.
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Thursday, 1 October 2015 16:23 (eight years ago) link
in the questions it's listed as Colleen and McCay. Anyway, somebody fucked up.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 October 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
He just joined Goodreads last month and he has answered 75 questions and set his goodreads challenge to finish one book.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 23 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
So, 'Jerusalem' - anyone up for it?
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 05:06 (eight years ago) link
Half-tempted, but I already have several huuuuge novels I bought and have not yet tackled, so it might have to wait.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 06:09 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, I'm in the same boat, kind of overwhelmed at the moment. Grr, I pre-ordered it, but doesn't look like it's coming today - Amazon say they're 'still trying to obtain' it (I had some vouchers to use).
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 07:38 (eight years ago) link
Oh! It's out today. I haven't read anything massive this year and I like a good reading challenge, so quite possibly. Could pick it up at lunch.
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:12 (eight years ago) link
dowd, it looks like Amazon have made the first few chapters available to compensate for delays
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:20 (eight years ago) link
I've heard its really brilliant from one reader.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
Thanks for the tip! I'm really more of a physical reader, though.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 09:06 (eight years ago) link
Dont kindle previews equal 10% of the book? So thats at least 100+pages
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:18 (eight years ago) link
Eesh, based on the first couple pages, the writing is... not good.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:47 (eight years ago) link
Or, let's say, not my thing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:52 (eight years ago) link
But...crosswords!
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
I loved Voice of the Fire, so I should be more psyched for this than I am. but then I really loved the comics work he was doing then, and have not LOVED a comic of his in a while, so there is that.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:27 (eight years ago) link
Reminds me a bit of the Morrissey book - i.e. unedited and a little incoherent
Obviously anyone reading a 1000+ page book by Late Period Alan Moore will expect to have some *work* cut out for them (in fact, I'm sure that's part of the appeal) but the sentences read very un-special - there's a lot of overdescription like he's still writing for an artist, and a lot of unedited pluperfects
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:35 (eight years ago) link
This is based on a single ten minute squiz on Amazon, though, so do ignore me.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:37 (eight years ago) link
Almost twice as long War and Peace. Holy fucking shit
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:39 (eight years ago) link
Moore is great but I expect most of this to be typing and not writing
― calstars, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:40 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I will never get round to reading this, if someone could summarise it on this thread that would be great.
― chap, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 11:43 (eight years ago) link
I was in Gosh Comics on Friday and the staff were packaging up copies of the book into what looked like* custom cardboard sleeves and writing addresses for EG Portugal on them.
*but I can well believe you can get them in all sizes.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
The staff did not look, at that point, like Alan Moore fans.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:21 (eight years ago) link
this is pretty much where i'm at - huge moore fan up until the early-mid 2000s, thought voice of the fire was really great, but i've long since stopped paying close attention to his work. i'd like to give jerusalem a try but i dunno if i've got the enthusiasm and/or stamina required to make it through a thousand pages from a writer who i suspect may have passed his peak, or at least sharpened his talents/obsessions to so fine a point that it'll only cut it with a very specific group of readers.
maybe once the reviews are in i'll rethink...
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
haven't read past the title yet but...
http://www.vulture.com/2016/09/alan-moore-jerusalem-comics-writer.html
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 13:54 (eight years ago) link
Moore brings up the amount of sexual violence in Jerusalem, which won't exactly silence his "rape in every book" critics.
Anyway, I'm at pretty much in the same place as everyone else. Although I'm quite enjoying Providence it does seem to be a bit of an exercise in Mooresplaining and, as somebody said ^^^^ his desire these days seems to be to write things that require annotation and which he seems to want to do himself. Has anybody seen him and Jess Nevins in the same room together?
I thought Voice Of The Fire was great but the comics have become less essential with each passing commission (Crossed +100 turned out to be something Moore only seemed to be interested in the semiotics of, for example, as outside of setting up their language it really was nothing and I really couldn't care less about Cinema Purgatorio).
Having said that, I thought the Jimmy's End films were fun and Frank & Nick Make You Sick maybe shows where he should be focusing his attention?
― Horizontal Superman is invulnerable (aldo), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:29 (eight years ago) link
49ers and the 2nd LOEG series are the last Moore things I can remember enjoying. Dodgem Logic was fun, not really a comic though.
Enjoyed Providence to start with, but I got bored reading the diary entries and gave up.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
"His new book, Jerusalem, written over ten years, is a nearly 1,300-page attempt to encompass theories of space-time, hallucinogenic children’s adventure, thinly fictionalized personal biography, the surprisingly epic history of the downtrodden Northampton neighborhood in which he grew up, and, well, just about everything else."
nope nope nope
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Why is that less appealing than his other work? I'm more likely to read this than most of his other work.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:29 (eight years ago) link
His other work is shorter and has pictures.
― chap, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
I find some of his comics a bit difficult to read because they're overstuffed, but when it's just text I think I can do it. But mostly I'm just not into most of his visual collaborators. More than anything I've enjoyed his essays, poems and interviews.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
I do like that the paperback version of Jerusalem is 3 volumes in a box: breaking down a massive book like that makes it more aesthetically pleasing and also easier to actually read (and tackling only on 400p book at a time makes it seem more do-able, too).
The cover art is surprisingly not good, though: it looks like one of the Usborne puzzle books I was obsessed with as a child in the 1980s.
http://www.comicsbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/jerusalem_moore.jpg
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 01:45 (eight years ago) link
His style isn't really translating to colour, there.
RIP the photo that launched this thread
― Shakey δσς (sic), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 02:31 (eight years ago) link
AM recently read Infinite Jest:
"After thinking about this long and hard, the last truly great book I read would have to be “Infinite Jest,” by David Foster Wallace. Yeah, sorry. This was my first exposure to Wallace’s work, only a month or two ago, and I don’t think there’s anything about the novel that doesn’t impress me: its stream of satirical invention, with conventional dating gone in favor of a subsidized calendar and the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment; its mandarin prose that perfectly conjures the trancelike drift of a modern consciousness overwhelmed by detail; and its breathtaking risks with structure, so that the whole experience seems to pivot upon a climactic resolving chapter — either right at the end of the narrative or right at the beginning — which does not actually exist and which therefore requires the reader to create it herself, from slender inference. I think the moment I probably fell in love with Wallace as a writer was the point where I realized that I was actually meant to be irritated by all of the occasionally crucial footnotes. An author after my own heart, and a genuine modern American diamond in the tradition of Thomas Pynchon, Robert Coover and Gilbert Sorrentino."
― circa1916, Wednesday, 14 September 2016 02:35 (eight years ago) link
Revised delivery date from amazon? Sep 29th to Oct 30th. Serves me right for using my vouchers - should have tried a mor direct route.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 11:15 (eight years ago) link
you can still order copies from third-party sellers on amazon, which is what i did last night just hours after saying that i'd probably wait for a bit :(
i just got a notification it's been dispatched, so they must still have some stock left
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 11:29 (eight years ago) link
The pub I drink in has a waterstones a couple of doors down, said they can get it for me tomorrow.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
Although it'll probably be about £8 more expensive than the price amazon offered for goods they don't have.
byres rd?
― a very in-your-face, hard-edged machine bottom (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
Nah, in St Andrews (used to live just off byres rd though - above missing records)
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:43 (eight years ago) link
I've seriously slacked as a reader of Important Fiction in recent years but Moore OTM about IJ. Still the most impressive novel I've ever read.
I think, unless I read lots of gushingly rave reviews of this thing, that I will allow From Hell to continue its tenure as my massive Moore magnum opus of choice.
― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link