@LeopoldNestor: Well, I don't know the guy personally but in my experience comments that make an industry outsider sound like an asshole are ten times more likely to be published than comments that lend credibility to his position.
@Arryma: Might have something to do with the natural formation of groups, and the suspicion that tends to be directed towards the ones outside of it.
Considering that he also likes to challenge the comic book medium, I'd say that hostility would be expected.
@Smeagol92055: I wouldn't say every one (I personally preferred Watchmen as a film over it as a comic, in terms of story. There, I said it), but yes, he has been screwed over on multiple occasions by the Big Two and the Hollywood establishment.
Slight crazy aside, he actually seems like a very nice and personable guy. Just very dedicated to his sense of ethics, which is something I admire.
@Smeagol92055: not ALL of them are abominations, and he acts the same with LXG than he does with V. V is arguably a bad adaptation, and I agree with him that it's not loyal to the spirit of the book, but that doesn't make it a bad movie, and hardly puts it on LXG level.
@Aidan_: Having ideals is one thing, but ethics is also how you treat and relate to other human beings. If you believe in your work and hate to see it altered, that's one thing, and it can be a mature and strong conviction. But if you treat other people like shit, it means that you yourself are insecure, immature and have never fully developed into an adult. Still being a child, you have to lash out at the world to bolster your own sense of security.
I'm not trying to put it in a way that's offensive, but it seems to me that's the divide between people who "admire" Moore and people who think he acts like a tool. I think he acts like a tool.
@LeopoldNestor: he has antisocial personality disorder. many writers are like that eccentric people who prefer characters they create to actual people. he is someone who wants complete control and he doesnt have it with other people. so when his characters are taken from him he gets angry over another loss of said control. etc.
@GreyHammer: Antisocial personality disorder doesn't actually make you an angry, antisocial recluse. It tends to be the diagnosis given to utterly amoral serial killers, the kind who laugh about torturing their victims for fun and then hit on their interrogators in the same sentence. I don't think anyone has accused Moore of going quite that far.
Me, I'm just waiting until 50 years from now, when academics at the same conference will all start claiming he was gay, or actually 5 different writers.
@0kami: Exactly. While I found V very entertaining, I have to admit that the political message was changed, what would give AM grounds to be rightfully pissed #alanmoore
@braak: Gee is it likely that an author making a vaguely grandiose and somewhat boneheaded statement designed to provoke a really tiresome "scandal" would have a book out now?
Let me check the magic 8 ball. Oh, "most probably".
The photograph here of "Greg Egan" is not me (the SF writer mentioned in the article), it is a professor of electrical engineering who happens to share my name.
I do hate that, "the perfect science fiction novel for people who don't like science fiction" line.
It's everywhere these days. I don't hear about, "the perfect romance novel for people who don't like romance" or "the perfect historical fiction novel for people who don't like historical fiction."
No, it's just sci-fi which is a taboo: too insular, too strange, too 'not normal'.
"And what killed the "quixotic literary experiment" of the New Wave: the popularity of Star Wars."
That is such a crock of shit. Just goes to show you, you can be a talented artist but still be a whining moron. Tell you what, Bob, Go stand next to Steve Perry and Loverboy who blame Kurt Cobain for the end of their popularity.
@NotArthurPDragon: Yeah, how old are you? You might be right about the music (I don't care for any of that), but he's right about Star Wars. It changed both the movie biz and the written SF biz very dramatically.
Yet, falling inconveniently between genres -- too fantastic for literary critics, too literary for sci-fi reviewers
This is fantastic bullshit on both sides. The kind of idiot statement thrown off by someone who just can't find anything real to say and wants to start some sort of controversy. It's always a safe bet to appeal to the old platitude of the hateful book reviewer and academic destroying the appeal of the artist.
Book reviews don't mean SHIT. The only person who cares enough about a book review to read it is the person who would READ THE BOOK ANYWAYS. The basic fact with art is that art will always reach the exact level which it "deserves", because that is a pretty meaningless measurement in the world of art. How can you judge the idea of a "deserving" work? Well, based on how much it touched people and where it ended up in the grand perspective of history... So from that point of view, it ended up exactly where it deserved to end up.
"Reviewers" don't make a difference to anyone. If a book is going to end up somewhere it's going to end up somewhere. Wherever that is is where it should be.
@Pope John Peeps II: That explains why I have stacks and stacks of novels that have absolutely no review blurbs anywhere on the front or back covers... and they end up being the most awesomest of them all.
10/12/09
If we could clean him up, who knows what he would be capable of creating !??!
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Considering that he also likes to challenge the comic book medium, I'd say that hostility would be expected.
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Slight crazy aside, he actually seems like a very nice and personable guy. Just very dedicated to his sense of ethics, which is something I admire.
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I'm not trying to put it in a way that's offensive, but it seems to me that's the divide between people who "admire" Moore and people who think he acts like a tool. I think he acts like a tool.
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Me, I'm just waiting until 50 years from now, when academics at the same conference will all start claiming he was gay, or actually 5 different writers.
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Let me check the magic 8 ball. Oh, "most probably".
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Of course not! Peoples tastes never change.
Hey you kids, turn down that noise!
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It's everywhere these days. I don't hear about, "the perfect romance novel for people who don't like romance" or "the perfect historical fiction novel for people who don't like historical fiction."
No, it's just sci-fi which is a taboo: too insular, too strange, too 'not normal'.
Well good. It's better that way, right?
04/21/09
04/21/09
It's not BORING. Silverberg is a better writer IMO.
I picked it up at a grocery store in the 70's and it was mind-boggling. The "literary" stuff is a snooze.
His SF and his fantasy are both excellent.
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That is such a crock of shit. Just goes to show you, you can be a talented artist but still be a whining moron. Tell you what, Bob, Go stand next to Steve Perry and Loverboy who blame Kurt Cobain for the end of their popularity.
04/21/09
04/21/09
This is fantastic bullshit on both sides. The kind of idiot statement thrown off by someone who just can't find anything real to say and wants to start some sort of controversy. It's always a safe bet to appeal to the old platitude of the hateful book reviewer and academic destroying the appeal of the artist.
Book reviews don't mean SHIT. The only person who cares enough about a book review to read it is the person who would READ THE BOOK ANYWAYS. The basic fact with art is that art will always reach the exact level which it "deserves", because that is a pretty meaningless measurement in the world of art. How can you judge the idea of a "deserving" work? Well, based on how much it touched people and where it ended up in the grand perspective of history... So from that point of view, it ended up exactly where it deserved to end up.
"Reviewers" don't make a difference to anyone. If a book is going to end up somewhere it's going to end up somewhere. Wherever that is is where it should be.
04/21/09
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"BLEH! BLEH BLEH BLEH!"
"...bleh..."
me want boobies
03/02/09