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Does anyone else read the shortest work by an author before deciding whether or not to pursue their other work - kafka's metamorphosis, the old man and the sea, etc.? Total pleb move, I know. But I want to know that I'm not alone.

>> No.5443176

It's 2014. I judge authors by their twitter posts.

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>>5443176

Not a writer, but I would have loved to have seen Francisco Goya's twitter posts.

>> No.5443192

>Kafka's metamophosis
>The old man and the sea
>shortest work by an author

Hemmmmmingway has a 2-3 page short story numbskull. And the Metamorphosis is much longer than In the Penal Colony (not even his shortest work either, but I don't know what that one is)

>> No.5443213

I did with Gaddis and Pynchon. But 2666 was the first thing I tried from Bolano.

>> No.5443220

>>5443170
Yeah, I just ordered Carpenter's Gothic because I don't want to commit to 900 pages of Gaddis if I don't like what he's doing.

>> No.5443222

>>5443170
I go for whichever book I think I'll most enjoy reading. GRainbow being an obvious example. I didn't enjoy The Crying of Lot 49 when I eventually got to it, so I'm glad I went for GR first.

>> No.5443246

>>5443192
it's quite obvious he's talking about novels

>> No.5443283

>>5443170
>Total pleb move
why/how?

I do that all the time.

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>>5443246
>"it's quite obvious he's talking about novels"
>OP used Kafka's Metamorphosis (a short story) as an example of the only work he's read by Kafka