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So how do you think the industry will do with its unnecessarily long-winded paid by the page bull-shit now that their
>YEW KIDS DON'T REED ENOUGH CUZ YER LAZY LOWLIVES, DAG-NABIT!
garbage has been essentially disproven with the internet, texting and so on.?

>> No.4145087

No legs. Does that guy even lift?

>> No.4145090

the industry will survive but you won't

>> No.4145098

>>4145084
>garbage has been essentially disproven with the internet, texting and so on.?

>reading
>reading good shit
That was already the problem highlighted by Madame Bovary, and her character was still pretty well read by modern standards

>> No.4146698

>>4145087
No he is dirty hipster scum

>> No.4146705

>>4145084
This might be alright if it were divided into volumes. Fancy that on your shelf.

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4146737

>>4145084
>has been essentially disproven with the internet, texting and so on

It's about what they read that matters.

I'm sure you think the average fat american reading the back of every cereal box and food packaging he consumes/going to consume counts as 'reading' to you as well.

>> No.4146769

>>4146737
Cereal Box>Illiterate

>> No.4146785

>>4146737
>Reading information on food is not reading
>reading [...] is not reading

>> No.4146803

>>4146737
>reading the back of every cereal box and food packaging ... counts as 'reading' to you as well.
Well, yeah, technically it does.

>> No.4146807

>>4145084
>paid by the page bull-shit
I thought I was imagining this, and I'm still not sure if you're saying what I think you are, but do you mean the way modern books are much longer than what was written a few decades or so ago? Because if that's the case I find it very annoying.

>> No.4146844

>>4146769
>>4146785
>>4146803

Take pride in whatever you did achieve, rather than pity yourself for what you didn't, amirite?

>> No.4146921

>>4146807
>the way modern books are much longer than what was written a few decades or so ago?
No, you're not imagining. Books are becoming much, much longer nowadays.

The short story is, for all intents and purposes, a completely dead genre now. Instead we have a whole new 'epic infinitology neverending book series' genre that didn't even exist fifty years ago.

>Because if that's the case I find it very annoying.
Personally, I like longer books, so I'm down with that.

>> No.4146930

>>4145084
I agree OP, fuck Proust, give me a tumblr post or a text from a friend telling me he's stuck behind his sofa and needs help any day

>> No.4146931

I can see it now: "stuk behind sofa pls haolp"

>> No.4147365

>>4146921
This. Debut novels nowadays are 300-400 pages. That used to be your sophomore or third effort.

>> No.4147490

>>4147365
Influence of Pynchon and Wallace maybe? Or maybe because they'll think that the more shelf space the book takes up the more likely it is to get noticed

>> No.4147495

>>4146921
>short story is, for all intents and purposes, a completely dead genre
It's alive in universities, much the same way as poetry really.

>> No.4147496

>>4146921
>>4147365

Gonna need to see some data on this longer novels theory. I suspect it's bullshit. But if it isn't, you shouldn't have trouble proving it.

Also, short stories are still published in tons of magazines, both literary and non-literary.

>> No.4147531

Texting and chatting habits, sitting on facebook all day, posting "do you even lift" on 4chan, it's all just a flood of snippets and bullet points of useless information. Overexposure to it is harmful to your attention span and conditions you to accept superficial explanations simply because they are easier to digest.

>> No.4147566

I want to hear more about this length of novels thing. I haven't noticed one way or the other. I mean, I dunno. Short story collections are getting fucking short, though. Stuff like This is How You Lose Her, The Last Girlfriend on Earth, and The Girl In The Flammable Skirt, all 250 pages or less.