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An epic audiobook in 12 parts.
Northampton. The center of England. Twelve extraordinary characters transport you through 6,000 years of astonishing history. As Alan Moore’s place-writing masterpiece reaches its 25th anniversary, New Perspectives brings this expansive work to life through twelve immersive audio journeys.
Violence, madness, lust, and ecstasy all weave together in patterns of recurring visions, restless apparitions, and gut-wrenching narrative that offer an unprecedented voice to one of the country’s most enigmatic regions. A prehistoric boy learns a deadly lesson, a murderess dresses up as her victim, a Roman emissary confronts an unbearable truth about the empire, two lovers burn at the stake for witchcraft, and a poet begins his doomed walk from one incarceration to another.
Blending history with wild imagination, this collection of remarkable tales submerge you in the power of language and unveil the deepest secrets hidden in the land. Spoken by an exceptional cast, from Maxine Peake to Sleaford Mods vocalist Jason Williamson, this is epic cinema for the ears, firmly rooted in the author’s home town of Northampton.
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There’s an episode of Friends where after hearing Joey elaborate on the meaning of something being a “moo point” Rachel says “Am I going crazy or did that just make sense?”
I found myself asking the same question every time I picked up this book. Having always found Alan Moore to be a fascinating character but only sort of enjoying his graphic novels, I thought I’d give him another chance as a novelist and I am glad I did. Voice of the Fire presents an enticing and at times unnerving look at the way in which the stories we tell affect us and the world around us.
As an archaeologist I’ve spent a lot of time researching peoples relationships to their environments and I’ve never read fiction that explored that concept so deeply. People and places leave traces of themselves behind, we study the physical remains via archaeology, the records of them through history, but weaving it all together is this strange world of folklore, myth, and memory. This whole novel takes place in that third zone.
It’s grim - not a lot of joy in the stories themselves, but it’s all about the people caught in the matrix of memory and time. Not all the chapters are equal and at times Moore’s language borders on self-indulgence, but if you are the sort of person who thinks about these things (and if you’re considering this book you probably are), you may just find yourself asking “am I crazy or did that just make sense?”
Watch out for the shagfoals.
Quite an experience
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Grim, beautiful Alan Moore prose.
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I would still recommend this book but only to people who are already Moore fans. After reading Jerusalem, it reads like a welcome addition to the later work but not much more. The book is not lazy or poorly written but overly ambitious and it just fell short of those lofty goals for me.
On the other hand, with the exception of a couple chapters, the performances are wonderful and the addition of sound effects adds significantly to the effect. However, there are a few points that feel a little over-engineered.
All in all, the brilliance of Alan Moore mostly comes through in this book but without the quality of story telling and consistency which he maintains both in Jerusalem and most of his comic books.
Not my favorite Moore
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Alan Moore! What can you say!
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Production quality
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