{"id":45098,"date":"2014-09-10T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/life-is-too-short-and-alan-moore-is-too-long.html"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:18:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T17:18:36","slug":"life-is-too-short-and-alan-moore-is-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/life-is-too-short-and-alan-moore-is-too-long.html","title":{"rendered":"Life is too short, and Alan Moore is too long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll still read long books. But given the direction Alan Moore&#8217;s writing has gone in the last 10-15 years, I probably won&#8217;t be reading this long book.<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112539429469437111274\">Curt Thompson<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\">+The Verge<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s more than two Lord of the Rings<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/9\/10\/6132295\/alan-moore-novel-jerusalem-finished-at-1-million-words\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yaNgTK3QL2tqvJ1tmyjZotl_YiAGSE1ETLh3B7xre-V7y53L4QoLJFANlp3m4cJVv8Gqu3vUk9VTv87zhF0zo_5YPHC3kPWAWgJanrcfaVe97EQI75u2HYV7phuHabNiB_KZ6mmcXl_I2aS538cbYCjXYaXJ6mcXjg=w506-h303\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/9\/10\/6132295\/alan-moore-novel-jerusalem-finished-at-1-million-words\">&#8216;Watchmen&#8217; writer Alan Moore has finished a 1 million word novel<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWatchmen writer Alan Moore has completed work on the first draft of an epic novel that has now spiraled into an enormous story totaling over one million words. For context, that&#8217;s more than two L&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aKkwzJP2Rvb\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll still read long books. But given the direction Alan Moore&#8217;s writing has gone in the last 10-15 years, I probably won&#8217;t be reading this long book. (h\/t +Curt Thompson) Originally shared by +The Verge: That&#8217;s more than two Lord of the Rings &#8216;Watchmen&#8217; writer Alan Moore has finished a 1 million word novel Watchmen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/10\/life-is-too-short-and-alan-moore-is-too-long.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life is too short, and Alan Moore is too long&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/speakiing-of-neil-gaiman-and-alan-moore.html","url_meta":{"origin":45098,"position":0},"title":"Speaking of Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Feb-09 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... as I did in talking about Watchmen, here's an interview Gaiman did with Moore, back in the mid-80s (just before Watchmen came out), and back when a mid-20s Gaiman was writing interviews and articles and such for British men's magazines. 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