/lit/ - Literature

I refuse to buy Jerusalem unless they make it a single-volume paperback.

>>8674344
Fair enough I went for the hardcover I'd say they'll do it eventually

>>8674298
looks like finnegans wake but dull

>>8674361
From what I've seen of Finnegan's Wake that's accurate

What is honestly the point of this shit?
Why does it get published?

>>8674368
It fits into the book as a whole, out of context it makes less sense that it does to someone who's read the preceding 800 pages

>>8674298
>>8674361
>>8674365

Honestly if "Round the Bend" wasn't a big enough giveaway that it's a Joyce/Finnegans Wake reference ("riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs") then truly, this board is dead.

>>8674373
I get the reference but I was just struggling to read the thing itself. Needless to say Moore's writing is as he said himself a poor imitation of Joyce's

>>8674298
Holy shit. Does this idiot really think that taking mundane sentences and fucking up the spelling of the words has anything to do with the way Joyce wrote? This is embarrassing.

>>8674373
well fucking duh. that doesnt mean its any good.

>>8674386
Yeah the whole point of the chapter is that it's a emulation of FW. I've only read Portrait and Dubliners and a bit of Ulysses. I was just wondering has anyone else read this and got whats going on

>>8674344
I see... a paperback edition... one year after publication, like every other book in existence.

>>8674298
That's about right - a mixture of meaningful sentences laced with wordgame layers, and of gibberish sentences warped towards the meaningful ones in the same way

>>8674437
you are wrong and a faggot

>>8674451
That's essentially what I got a lot of gibberish with a some good passages about time and how people live and Lucia memeing around doing shit

>>8674454
How am I wrong? That's how big publishing works: hardcover comes out, then one year after publication, the paperback comes out.

>>8674368
>Modern literature.

Is he, dare I say it, the saviour of literature?

>>8674641
At least he trying something different in comparison to the shit that's popular

>>8674714
Different =/= better

>>8674368
I wish more of this got published. It's the only kind of interesting literature after a while. Moore is just dogshit. This seemed really low effort.

>>8674381
I imagine he didn't spend 7 years writing this chapter

>>8674865
Too true. I think Jerusalem is much better though

>>8674998
Of course just making the point that Moore himself wouldn't claim this is nearly as good as Finnegan's Wake

>>8675030
*sucks in air through teeth*

>>8675038
Right

>>8674298
if this exact segment was in ulysses it would have been praised

>>8676059
He essentially did with FW anyway. It's not actually that hard of a chapter anyway it just ends up being about Lucia dancing on a lawn in the end

>>8676059
If anything was in Ulysses it would have been praised. Your statement is meaningless so far as that book is concerned.