Jerusalem by Alan Moore

[Joseph Tracy]

I think it probably is an easier way to absorb the book. The actor who reads does a very good job with the accents and has a nice sense of pace. I have a card for the MA inter-library loan system because our nearest city is North Adams Ma. Fabulous library system. I have the advantage as a visual artist of being able to put it on my I pod and listening as I work. I only shut it off when I really need to concentrate on creative or tech decisions.
> On Feb 6, 2018, at 12:16 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> It may be easier to listen through all the way, and you get the local color and flavor of the language. I read the first book and stopped, waiting to re-charge to pick up again. It's very dense, not in a GR sciency kinda way, just the sprawling amount of interrelated characters. I needed a break. though the time frame is much wider than AtD, it does have a familiar feel of that book imho
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> On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> I am listening to a sprawling story about the Northampton area of England, specifically the Boroughs, written by the comic book writer Alan Moore. The essential art of Comic books is to pack the most action and character development into the fewest words. But in Jerusalem Moore spent over a year of research and a lifetime lived in the area to produce a work over 1100 pages. His writing has pynchonesque qualities but with a greater ear for dialect and the colorful language of ordinary folk. It jumps through time into and out of characters and it has a great sense of the accrued layers of time along with the constants of human behavior lived by utterly vivid characters. I am only on 8 of 49 discs so no conclusive thoughts but I am really liking it so far and wonder if anyone else has read it?
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