Yeah but those were 1 million rubbish words
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Agreed. Moore just published a short story in God is Dead Alpha Book of Acts that was terrific.
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Iām always happy to see Moore publishing something, because it means I get entertained three times. It goes like this:
What Moore did: solidly entertaining!
The movie they make based on what Moore did: Quite entertaining indeed!
Mooreās spittle-flecked meltdown over what the movie did to his work: EPIC ENTERTAINMENT.
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1 and 3 - YESSS!!!
2 not so much.
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He started five of his eleven novels to date with a definite article. Weāve had two of them with āITā, there has been one āBUTā, two 'ATās, one āONā and a āSCALZIā. Oh that of course was never published.
Somehow I donāt think weāre going to get a movie adaptation of a million word stream of consciousness novel with chapters in completely made up languages anytime soon.
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Fun fact: Alanās beard is 95% monkey.
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And 5% the blood of Christian babies.
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His opinion on Moby Dick doesnāt fill me with confidence, since I agree completely with his hypothetical editor.
admits that any worthwhile editor would probably tell him to shave about two-thirds of the book, but they canāt, and anyway he didnāt write it for them, and also get off his lawn. āI doubt that Herman Melville had an editorāif he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring stuff about whaling: āCut to the chase, Hermanā,ā Moore said.
Also, Iāve been to Northampton a few times. I canāt imagine reading a book twice the size of War and Peace about the place.
Anyway, off to give Gravityās Rainbow a bit more of a try. Damn thingās harder to get into than Infinite Jest was.
I gave up on Moby Dick after it took two chapters for the protagonist to walk up the bloody beach and buy himself a pint.
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