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>Reading the prologue of Jerusalem
>"Turns left on the avenue"
>Paragraph after paragraph of adjectives and descriptive scenes
>Finally dialogue
>Fourteen months pass
>"Mick turns left down the street"
>Adjectives
>mfw I just want to read about Swift-Footed Achilles and his uncontrollable rage

This is the first move I've made out of the classics. What is this? The Greeks were lively and virile, the intensity of epic poetry took me by surprise. When did literature become focused on setting and endless description?

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9747842

>>9747769
>he thought a comic book maker could write a full fledged maximalist novel

>> No.9747857

>>9747842
Lmao what a retard

>> No.9748077

>>9747857
ikr

>> No.9748084

>>9747769
Alan Moore is used to writing autistically detailed scene descriptions for comic artists, also this book is about his town in the first place
It does get more bearable moving forward though

>> No.9748121

>When did literature become focused on setting and endless description?
I am reading Iliad right now. The guy spends 500 lines listing the ships, the groups of warriors and their leaders.
>adjectives
Yeah, the fair-haired, beloved-by-Ares, long-shadowed, swift-footed, rose-fingered Homer does never waste a single word.

All in all, you're dumb for reading only the Greeks (ie, falling for the memes) and them jumping 3000 years into the future and not expect human sensibilities to change drastically (and also reading just one random work from a period and thinking it can represent the whole of literature from that period).

>> No.9748228

>>9747769
actually moore uses description to invoke meaning. every street corner and seemingly minor character becomes central to the story later on. not the best book ive read but this is definitely good literature. you dick.

>> No.9748268

>>9748121
Those descriptions didn't drag on me in quite the same way. I liked the repetition of dialogue and the poem never felt like it dragged.

>>9748228
I'm still giving it a shot, if just didn't capture me in the same way Homer did.