what is your hype level for this book

I hope so. I need another doorstopper to complement the other doorstoppers that I haven't read

It will probably be a mess, if it's the Pynchon kinda of mess or the DFW kind of mess we can only guess.

9/10 hype, he already did this on a smaller scale

10/10 hype, bought a signed copy

Voice of the Fire had 3 bad chapters at most. To me the last chapter was shit, but the rest was amazing, especially Hob's hog. IF jerusalem is a 1200 voice of the fire without bad chapters, it is thye masterpiece of our lifetime

Is there a sample I can read somewhere?

>>8473721
1/10 hype

>>8473888
The last chapter is the one that better ties up the recurring elements together, but it does that somewhat in passing and I agree it's the least interesting by far.
I wouldn't expect this one to get the attention required for it to reach a lit-milestone status, though. It's not going to be politically relevant, Moore's brand of what he calls anarchism being just about reasonable, and formally speaking his tricks are all well-known by this point. A master's take on nothing new is still nothing new.

>>8473721
2/10.

It was 3, but all this viralling has kicked it down a point.

I'm pretty pumped, a little cheesed that it costs so much but it certainly sounds interesting. The reviews so far seem to think it's amazing.

>>8473721
Fair amount of hype, maybe 8/10 or so.

>>8473927
Here -
http://io9.gizmodo.com/get-a-glimpse-of-alan-moores-epic-mind-boggling-new-no-1785958757

Or better yet, listen to him rumble out a chapter in that thick Northampton accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTCgaDHk3Q

>wrote v for vendetta
no hype whatsoever.

>>8473995
Sick, thanks man.

>>8474005
At least YOU didn't write v for vendetta, amirite :^)

>>8473972
I hope it's psychologically relevant. I know the baloon from The Prisoner makes a cameo, so a few laughs are guaranteed

What a hideous cover

>>8473721
10/10
Voice of Fire was fun.

I can't get over the fact that instead of using one of his many talented artist connections, he drew a godawful gaudy cover himself.

>>8475565
Agreed. The colours look tacky and shit.

>>8475565
He started out as a writer/illustrator, the only reason he stopped illustrating was because it was faster to get other people to do it. If he drew the cover himself it's because he had a damn good reason for it and doesn't give a fuck about your opinion.
Seriously; you think it's gaudy? That's your objection? Pure visual aesthetics? Worried it won't look good on your shelf when you have people around?

Is this a fantasy novel? I need to know so I can hide all threads about it.

>>8475625
I can see a whole bunch of difficult to get Northampton references that it'd be hard to explain to someone else to draw them (like the whole train/dual carriageway/castle thing and the football ground/cricket ground thing).

>>8475625
It doesn't affect the writing at all, it just bewilders me.

I couldn't care less about how a cover looks when it's on my shelf, if I were the type to show off the fact I give money to a capeshit pervert who worships a snakegod in his basement.

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>>8475630
I don't know I'm in your boat but looking at the Goodreads it's made me mildly interested.

Is Moore outsider art at this point?

>>8475656
Yeah, it's mainly that and some symbolic stuff that presumably gets explained in the book itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTDYhrbB0s