Watchmen and V For Vendetta author Alan Moore has finished the first draft of a novel so big that he doubts people will actually be able to lift it.

That's a lot of words...

Moore's latest book 'Jerusalem' is a fantastical journey through the history of Moore's hometown of Northampton. The book is over 1 million words long.The Guardian has amassed the tidbits of information that Moore has dropped over the years regarding the tone and structure of Jerusalem. One section will feature "his brother's adventure's in the fourth dimension," and another will evoke a "savage, hallucinating Enid Blyton" (the British children's author.)There is also a “Lucia Joyce chapter, which is completely incomprehensible … all written in a completely invented sub-Joycean text”, one written in the style of playwright Samuel Beckett, “a noir crime narrative based upon the Northampton pastor James Hervey, whom I believe was the father of the entire Gothic movement”, and “a combination of the ghost story and the drug narrative”.Moore added in an interview in 2011 that “I have doubted that people will even be able to pick it up."Moore's daughter Leah recently made the announcement that he had finished the book on his official Facebook page. "Has finished the first draft of his second novel, Jerusalem," she wrote. "Now there's just the small matter of copy editing a more-than-a-million word document, and its all done."Moore is best known as the author of highly acclaimed graphic novels Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From Hell, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

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