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1073170 No.1073170 [Reply] [Original]

What do you think about doorstoppers in general?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Doorstopper

>> No.1073173

>>1073171
>He isn't aware of the 'Laconic' button

>> No.1073171

brb, tvtropes.

>> No.1073175

Cumbersome and uncomfortable to read. Any work significantly bigger than 300 pages should be turned into multiple volumes.

>> No.1073178

Get a Kindle

>> No.1073182
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>Henry Darger has become famous for his posthumously discovered 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion,

>> No.1073188

>>1073173
I'm not that guy, but holy shit I was unaware of the 'Laconic' button.

Captcha
>here, tisday

>> No.1073189

Fuck.

And just like that, I'm sucked into TvTropes.

>> No.1073192

>>1073189
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife

>> No.1073194

> Thanks to the lack of editors, Fan Fiction has a tendency to run into this, if you count works that are never or hardly ever printed and thus are unsuitable for doorstop use. For instance, FanFiction.Net, as of April 6, 2009, lists 326 Harry Potter stories longer than the 255,000-word Order of the Phoenix, the longest in the series, many of these incomplete. 686 are longer than Goblet of Fire's 191,000 words. At least seventeen FF.Net stories have over a million words, with the Ah My Goddess fanfic Trial By Tenderness having recently broken the 2 million mark — at Harry Potter word-per-page rates, that's 6,800 pages, and over three times the length of Atlas Shrugged. The author doesn't seem to be planning on stopping anytime soon, either.

WHAT

THE

FUCK

>> No.1073200
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1073200

They intimidate me and I rarely get past the first few chapters skimming the top. I need to get the hell over myself, man up and read the entire thing.

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>>1073194
>over three times the length of Atlas Shrugged

That's a goddamn intimidating read.

>> No.1073204

>>1073203
Stephen King's 'It' is longer than Atlas Shrugged

>> No.1073207

>>1073204
IT'S NOT THREE TIMES AS LONG OF FANFICTION THOUGH GODDAMN.

>> No.1073208

ITT: tl;dr

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>> No.1073215

>>1073204
Stephen King proves that there's jack shit to do in Maine based on the length of his novels.

>> No.1073218

>>1073215
I lol'd