3 days left!!!!

So you bought a book you've already read?

>being lucky enough to find a bookstore that broke street date
Was it a chain by any chance?

Meta memery and Northampton references

3 of 10 which means I have no hype at all. 0 isn't a natural number. I HATE ZFC. Jews.

>natural
nice spook

not really hyped even though I really liked the watchmen when I read it in eighth grade. The fact that thirteen year old me loved alan moore makes me skeptical of him now. Is this a graphic novel too?

>Northampton references
I have even more esoteric Northampton references so no worries when these become mainstream. I've got your elitist backs lads

does alan moore post here?
Why is he paying people to viral market his dumb comic book about jews

>At age thirteen, David’s idea of heaven was somewhere that comics were acclaimed and readily available, perhaps with dozens of big budget movies featuring his favorite obscure costumed characters. Now that he’s in his fifties and his paradise is all around him he finds it depressing…When all this extraordinary stuff is happening everywhere, are Stan Lee’s post-war fantasies of white neurotic middle-class American empowerment really the most adequate response?

yeah right

Gaddis was a fraud..Watchmen is better than anything that clown ever wrote

This is more like Rand posting if anything.

I've just curious, not hype. I'm trying to figure out what it is, a book that does a variety of literary styles and a lot of references all revolving around his hometown?

>newfag can't into Blake

Do I buy this, Bottom's Dream, or both?

>Truthfully, it’s hard to tell who this book is for. Lit-nerds desperate to see Samuel Beckett talk to John Clare in a Samuel Beckett play? Econ 101 fanboys yearning for a Russian epic about Reagonomics? Socialist goths struggling to rationalize modern physics with Christian doctrine? Who will read this thing?

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>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.

ONE OF US

Is this the dank new maymay?

*unzips katana*

So you know how like there are different eras of the classical pantheon (like Chronus, then Zeus)? This is the start of a later maymay pantheon.

>the watchmen

>the

he has no internet

>I'm trying to figure out what it is, a book that does a variety of literary styles and a lot of references all revolving around his hometown?
Pretty much, with a broad metaphysical thing about time/existence

>Jerusalem buzzes with life, it’s a semiotic ocean of a book which makes Ulysses look like a primer. Vigorous, vulgar and wise it’s packed with a million observations and insights and some of the best writing on the planet. It’s what we’ve been waiting for — the great British novel.” – Michael Moorcock

What's book even about?

gay sex

Isn't Moorcock that fag who writes nothing but genreshit? Why should anyone care about what he has to say as a critic?

A bunch of shit over the course of 10,000 years in Moore's shitty town.

I'm too pleb for poetry, pls explain that shit to me

First half is about the apocryphal story that Jesus visited England in his early years, and briefly established Heaven at Glastonbury.

"Dark satanic mills" = the Industrial Revolution, factories belching smoke into the countryside, people working slave wages, etc.

In contrast, Jerusalem = Heaven, or an idyllic society. The second half is all about Blake saying that he'll never stop working to bring this about through his writings ("Mental Fight").

It's basically a call for rebellion against the British Empire - Blake was a big supporter of the French Revolution, and friends with radical figures like Thomas Paine. And to bring it all back around, Moore used the poem in V for Vendetta for that association, so clearly it's a big influence on him too.

7? kinda excited. I still don't know whether I want the hardcover or the paperback box set though.

yes yes yes

> the great British novel

Nonsensical statement

whens your b day user

Jerusalem is getting so much hype that it'll be impossible for it to live up to expectations.

This is no-mans sky all over again.

>Jerusalem is getting so much hype that it'll be impossible for it to live up to expectations.
It must be difficult to be a retarded person.

To the contrary, no one questions your worthlessnes, endless chicken tendies, no limit shitposting. The best part is going to be buying Jerusalem, reading 1/10th of it and discussing it on Veeky Forums anyway.

Why haven't you become a retard yet user?

its going to be the greatest British book of all time

Going to be the greatest British book since Ulysses.

Ulysses was an Irish book :)

Scottish*

hyped...put me at 8

Shit*

hehe very epic

hardback vs 3 volume paperback with sleeve, Veeky Forums?

I just preordered this shit. Did I just fuck up?

This was GOAT so I'm sure Jerusalem will be amazing too.

The first story in that book is still such a hard read, the linguistic shackles were so strong.

Moore is damn fine at prose, I am happy to experience his post-comics career.

1. I've seen pages from it and its the rantings of a schizophrenic lunatic.

Yeah it took me a ridiculously long time to get through that first chapter.

0, sci-fi is for children. This is for the pretentious grown up ones who can't read big boy literature, so they need something to act like it's just as good.

man who cares about the reviews. it's getting reviewed by people who like Sci fi and genre fiction. even if it's a little bit good these idiots are going to gush over it. you can't take any of the reviews seriously. it's like taking the scifi/fantasy threads word for something lmao.

>sci-fi
You didn't even read the blurb, did you.

Is Moore lit? The only impressions I have of him come from the watchmen movie and my literature professor who was a gay overweight gentleman with rings on every one of his fingers that believed he was a wizard also. He would talk about what he thought was good lit and good anime after class with a small coterie of adoring students.

I don't give a shit about his childrens picture books but his prose novels are great.

He's notorious for having Hollywood make really hacky adaptations of his stuff, the Watchmen movie changed Ozymandias' whole characterization

how did it change Ozy's characterization?

in the comic he seemed more genial and warm, someone who actually feels genuine when he said that he felt bad for all the lives lost (the excerpts and interviews in between chapters gave him more characterization that the chapters don't). In the movie he has a nazi accent and became a snidely whiplash villain.

>scifibulletin.com

>tfw the Tories sing it and people are always trying to make it the national anthem
It's such a perfect example of co-optation.

Have any actual Reviews (big r) taken a look at it? Would tepidly accept the Times of London or New Yorker tier stuff too.

Kirkus: Magisterial: an epic that outdoes Danielewski, Vollmann, Stephenson, and other worldbuilders in vision and depth.

I enjoyed Cryptonomicon but comparing to Stephenson makes me wary.

On his favorite authors:

>I tend to exist at a remote and quarantined distance from most of the world’s news and information media. Given what a spectacular year this is turning out to be for bad news on both sides of the Atlantic, there remains a lingering anxiety about whether all of one’s nominees will still be extant come the (so to speak) deadline. With that said, there follows a painfully incomplete list of names that happen to be passing through my mind right at this specific moment: Pynchon; Coover; Neal Stephenson; Junot Díaz; Joe Hill; William Gibson; Bruce Sterling; Samuel R. Delany; Iain Sinclair; Brian Catling; Michael Moorcock (his currently underway “Whispering Swarm” trilogy is astonishing); Eimear McBride; the remarkable Steve Aylett for everything, and in particular for his indispensable and quietly radioactive “Heart of the Original”; Laura Hird; Geoff Ryman; M. John Harrison; screenwriter Amy Jump. ... Look, I can either go on forever or I can’t go on. I’m already mortified by the pathetic lack of women writers represented and find myself starting to come up with wretched excuses and squirming evasions. Best we end this here.

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I aint reading that shit

I dunno, it seems like there's two different editions of the slipcase (maybe different sizes, hard to tell from the first pic)

...

Served him at Waterstones the other day, he's coming back in on Tuesday to sign a few books.

i think its going to be the book of the decade

Not got much competition, has it?

my hype level is moderate, but I do think that a month after Jerusalem drops and Moore's comic fanbase can't hang and the hype drops McCarthy's The Passenger will drop and completely BTFO Jerusalem in every literary aspect. I think The Passenger is going to make Big J look silly.
I'd still like to read it though.

The Passanger? whens that coming out?

please nobody click on this poorly worded garbage.

ALT RIGHT ALT RIGHT HOORAH

>The Passenger

Knopf doesn’t have any McCarthy title listed for release in September but that they do have two untitled units (listed in their system as “book 1” and “book 2”) slated for a March 2017 release.

literature seems pointless after this book

I thought death was supposed to seem nonexistent after this book?

>comics
>white empowerment

kek

>made thor a woman and then had it get fucked by a black dude
this is no longer accurately described by the word "cucking"

problem goy?

I don't blame Moore for quitting the industry desu

where should i start with Robert Coover and Gilbert Sorrentino? has anyone here read their works?

Moore quit the industry decades ago. the "industry" is the euphemism Moore uses for the major publishers like DC and Marvel. what he's doing now is retiring from the medium after he wraps up the trio of his ongoing series.

Wait, this is for real?
Those "censored" lines were published like this, printed on paper and then sold in stores?

That is exactly what is printed on the page.

What is this exactly?

Now I finally understand why Americans want Trump

Trump is literally a fuck you vote to the powers that be and American media. Even disenfranchised Bernie supporters feel that way in America. Marvel is a shit company for trying to do this stuff, but, as far I understand it, these issues typically do not sell well compared to the books that stick to the basic fundamentals of serialized comic-dom.

I think I am going to get the hardcover.

>as far I understand it, these issues typically do not sell well compared to the books that stick to the basic fundamentals of serialized comic-dom
Very wrong. It's a "any publicity..." kind of deal. If they piss off a group of people or, better yet, their fans, they always sell more in the short term.

9/10

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