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what are some great books that are really long?
Nothing less than 900 pages please.
>inb4 War and Peace, Life and Fate, Infinite Jest

>> No.12383316
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>>12383311
very dense too

>> No.12383329

2666 isn't great.
It's a god awful book.
DUUUUUDE SEX DUUUDE is literally the selling point of it. Take that out, your eyes would be opened to how awful of a book it really is.

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>> No.12383402

>>12383329
Why even post such a retarded comment? Are you trying to be le epic troll? How low must be an IQ to reach such conclusion?

>> No.12383411

>>12383329
This reads like you've never opened the book past the first section

>> No.12383420

>>12383329
Sex is not the "selling point". You should consider suicide, anon.

>> No.12383442

>>12383311
War and Peace, Life and Fate, and Infinite Jest are pretty good.

>> No.12383471

Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.12383702

>Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
>Mr. Thonchon Pymas' Mason and Dixon
>Marcel Proust's In Search of the Lost Time
>Arno Schmidt's Zettels Traum
>McElroy's Women and Men
>Hugo's Les Misérables
>Moore's Jerusalem
enough to keep one busy for some time

>> No.12383720

My copy of Leaves of Grass is >900 pages, but it contains two editions.

>> No.12383735

>>12383702
>Moore's Jerusalem
Ew.

>> No.12383739

>>12383329
Retard

>> No.12383744

>>12383739
Bolano is middlebrow as fuck, which is exactly why this board worships him. Vulgar writing.

>> No.12383923

>>12383744
You’re middlebrow you mong
Bolaño is the GOAT

>> No.12384950

>>12383744
Internationally known writer who proved his skill in fiction multiple times and wrote a lengthy magnum opus before he died, praised 10+ years after it came out
>vulgar writing
Okay buddy

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>> No.12385558

>>12383329
Yes, it is just like Game of Thrones, people read it only for sex

>> No.12385608

>>12385558
and for the murder