Alan Moore's finished a one million word epic novel

Yeah but those were 1 million rubbish words

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Agreed. Moore just published a short story in God is Dead Alpha Book of Acts that was terrific.

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I’m always happy to see Moore publishing something, because it means I get entertained three times. It goes like this:

What Moore did: solidly entertaining!
The movie they make based on what Moore did: Quite entertaining indeed!
Moore’s spittle-flecked meltdown over what the movie did to his work: EPIC ENTERTAINMENT.

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Ooooh, looks like it’s finally to be published in English!.

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1 and 3 - YESSS!!!

2 not so much.

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He started five of his eleven novels to date with a definite article. We’ve had two of them with ā€˜IT’, there has been one ā€˜BUT’, two 'AT’s, one ā€˜ON’ and a ā€œSCALZIā€. Oh that of course was never published.

Somehow I don’t think we’re going to get a movie adaptation of a million word stream of consciousness novel with chapters in completely made up languages anytime soon.

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Fun fact: Alan’s beard is 95% monkey.

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And 5% the blood of Christian babies.

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His opinion on Moby Dick doesn’t fill me with confidence, since I agree completely with his hypothetical editor.

admits that any worthwhile editor would probably tell him to shave about two-thirds of the book, but they can’t, and anyway he didn’t write it for them, and also get off his lawn. ā€œI doubt that Herman Melville had an editor—if he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring stuff about whaling: ā€˜Cut to the chase, Herman’,ā€ Moore said.

Also, I’ve been to Northampton a few times. I can’t imagine reading a book twice the size of War and Peace about the place.

Anyway, off to give Gravity’s Rainbow a bit more of a try. Damn thing’s harder to get into than Infinite Jest was.

I gave up on Moby Dick after it took two chapters for the protagonist to walk up the bloody beach and buy himself a pint.

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