Now that the dust has settled, did anyone actually read this?

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>>9151518
Yeah it's bretty good

>>9151518
no and I don't plan on it either. maybe in 20 years.

My extremely well-read friend has, and he says it's trash and keeps getting messaged by people butthurt by his Goodreads review

>>9151518
Yea. Liked most, couldn't get on with the Lucia Joyce chapter, but overall it's way better than the memes led me to expect. Especially the "Third Borough" bits - not miles off from Pynchon.

>>9151556
Link to review? Yeah, I'm not a Moore fanboy even though I like him in his interviews, I don't think I would read a 1000~ page book based on name value.

>>9151531
>Ian McEwan spotted
pfft

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1758308185

>>9151577
My bad here >>9151609
Not really a good review but I know I can trust his thoughts on literature

I love Moore and Voice of the Fire is a great novel, but I'm not yet ready to commit to 1000+ pages of him. Someday, just not today.

Once Providence concludes I'm excited to read that + Neonomicon, in unrelated Moore news.

>>9151584
Only book I read by him. Nutshell was decent. Idk what any of his other stuff is like you pretentious twit

>>9151518

I haven't but I heard it has a lot of allusions to Northampton. I live about 10 miles away so am considering buying and making a thread to show what those places actually look like.

I know one is the Old Black Lion pub. Some dingy ass pub near the train station.

>>9151609
this is one of the main problems I have with it. It's drowning in redundant descriptions and flowery as fuck prose. He repeats the main message and point of the chapter again and again, yet I'm enjoying the fuck out of it. It's funny and heartfelt, and immersive, but it could have used some heavy editing.

I think it's a meme.

>>9151556
>extremely well read

What did you mean by this?

>>9151518
It's alright. I think Moore was trying to go for some Jodorowsky-Joycean thing which is cool as an idea but wasn't executed very well. Moore is a talented dude and I think he just assumed that because he's good at writing comics it would transfer over to literature which unfortunately wasn't the case.

I wouldn't read it again just for the sheer amount of time it took. The payoff isn't that great and the ideas aren't new or particularly interesting which are what's important for me. Fun, new, interesting -- pick one or more.

>>9152305
extreme motherfucker