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If a book can't tell it's story in less than 1,000 pages it isn't worth reading

>> No.10596401

>>10596394
>my novel is 999 pages
Phew!

>> No.10596409
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10596409

what if the story is a metanarrative about a guy who feels he has to write a 1000 page book to stop from killing hisself?

>> No.10596422

>>10596401
>my novel is 1001 pages

argh

>> No.10596427

>>10596394
What a strict criterion, you lovable radical!

>> No.10596433

what if i just shrink the font or make the pages bigger lol

>> No.10596441

>>10596394

Dude this thread is a joke. Why signal your heterosexuality like that and say what you would really do?

Why so serious? As my favorite character, the JOKER would say. It's my favorite character because he resembles me psychologically.

Learn to laugh. Learn to troll. Learn to play with your posts. This is 4chan bitch, it's not ducking rebbit.

Welcome to the madhouse. Nothing is what it seems around here.

>> No.10596451

>>10596422
JUST

>> No.10596463

>>10596394
MFW @ Midnight with Chris Hardwick comes on TV.

>> No.10596494

>>10596422
Yikes!

>> No.10596538

>>10596394
If a post can’t distinguish between its and it’s then it’s not worth- oh wait...

>> No.10596543

>>10596394
lol because all books are about stories.

>> No.10596546

I honestly think it's the opposite.
Long term books are always a bigger joy to read for me, truly feels like I've gotten fully immersed in the world of the novel. Anything under 500 is too short for me.

>> No.10596566

>>10596422
PUBLISHERS GONNA FREAK!

>> No.10596567

>>10596394
>breaks his 1000 page novel up into two separate volumes

>> No.10596573

>>10596567
That's still one novel in the end, though.

>> No.10596581

>>10596573
No it's not. The second one is a sequel.

>> No.10596588

>>10596581
The lord of the rings is 1 novel divided into 3 volumes. Book of the new sun is 1 novel divided into 4 volumes.

>> No.10596590

>>10596441
t. intelligent, nihilstic and a wicked sense of humor

>> No.10596608

>>10596588
Lord of the Rings are 6 novels

>> No.10596610

>>10596567
>publisher forces novel to be split into 3 volumes
>gets published as one long novel afterwards, anyway

>> No.10596632

>>10596588
Book one ends. Book two picks up on a whole new scenario years later.
Example: The Three Muskeeters series.
All it takes is one counterexample to disprove your theory, which I have.

>> No.10596635

I agree. Pedro Páramo is the only novel worth reading

>> No.10596673

>>10596632
Yes, but I was talking about something written as one novel but then divided into two as >>10596567 said. Just because it got split doesn't mean it's two books, it's just one book that was divided up.

>> No.10596694

>>10596673
Who's to say my 1000 page novel doesn't cover two distinct time periods?

>> No.10596697

>>10596694
Then why is it written as one novel in the first place? There is no logical reason for this

>> No.10596963

For some reason I despise it when books are more than one volume long, I don't care about the page or word count, I just want it all to be in one book. I have the complete works of O. Henry in hardback and it's one volume with 1,700 pages, and it reads perfectly fine.

>> No.10597018

>he fell for the metric meme

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10597046

>>10596394

>> No.10597067
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10597067

>>10596409
>mfw he killed himself anyway
woopsie

>> No.10597095

OP here, after some time of thinking, I've realized the mistake of using pages over word count. Here's my revised statement: If a book can't tell it's story in less than 300,000 words it isn't worth reading

>> No.10597103

>>10597067
it did hold off the tendencies for a little while.

obvious solution: write even more 1,000+ pages books

>> No.10597115

>>10597095
My book is 299,307 words, but it now you dumb fuck

>> No.10597121

>>10597115
>but it now you dumb fuck
I think you're the dumb fuck

>> No.10597147

>>10596394
What if the book is 1,000 pages in hexadecimal, huh?

>> No.10597183

>>10597046
even if it was less than 1,000 pages, it's still overrated as hell.

>> No.10598682

War & Peace and LOTR are both amazing books and over 1000 pages

>> No.10598941

>>10596409
>>10596394
but what if the book has <1000 pages and the rest of the story is told as annotations

>> No.10599687

>>10596394
i'd argue 500 pages is the real standard for "if you've passed this point you need to cut shit out"

>> No.10599719

>>10598682
>War&Peace and LOTR are both amazing books
I kind of want to see you fight a tiger barehanded

>> No.10601314

>>10599687
That seems a little short to me, I like epics.

>> No.10602139

>>10597046
>>10598682
These books are boring as shit, the fact that they're so fucking long is what makes them boring.