Jerusalem by Alan Moore

Jamie McKittrick jamiemckit at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 10:31:10 CST 2018


Joyce's daughter spent the last 30 years of her life in a Northampton
institution so there's yer main entry point for Joyce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Joyce

On 7 February 2018 at 20:51, Alain Champlain <alainfchamplain at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I’ve got a feeling Joyce plays a big part in this book. Just flipping
> through quickly, I noticed he called the first part Work in Progress
> (original title for Finnegans Wake), which could be easily dismissed, but I
> stumbled upon some more Joyce references later on in the book.
>
> Looking forward to reading it soon.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Feb 7, 2018, at 11:59 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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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