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12860355 No.12860355 [Reply] [Original]

What's the point of really big novels? I feel like anything over 400-500ish pages should really be multiple books in a series; one long story arc cannot be sustained over so many pages.

>> No.12860367

Many old long books were published as separate volumes.

>> No.12860416

>>12860355
What's the point of really big tits? I feel like anything over a B cup is really a fat girl who is good a hiding her stomach.

>> No.12860425

>>12860367
this
it makes you notice a lot about the structure of books

>> No.12860761

>>12860355
>one long story arc cannot be sustained over so many pages
source?

>> No.12860773

>Publish a chapter at a time in a magazine
>Get paid by the word
>Write a 1,000 page "novel"
>Wow look how long it is it's such a classic ;)

>> No.12862527

>>12860355
Who is this chick?

>> No.12862534

>>12862527
>chick
more like cow

>> No.12862536

>>12860761
Op never read a novel

>> No.12862544

>>12862534
you say that like it's a bad thing

>> No.12862553

>>12860355
>novels
>one long story arc
listen to yourself

>> No.12862555

>>12860416
if you put your wiener in between a girl's tits it feels really nice anon, even nicer if they are on the bigger side

>> No.12862559

>>12860416
>over b
You accidentally put a backwards d m8

>> No.12862707

>>12860367
Some new ones, too. Circuits of the Wind was divided iirc into volumes by time period, 70s, 80s, 90s. And wasn't there another one, Skippy Dies or something

>> No.12862709

>>12862707
Oh, and Knausgaard of course

>> No.12862711

>>12862555
why would you know this lole

>> No.12862727
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12862727

>>12862711
because I've done it

>> No.12862734

>>12862727
post proof

>> No.12862738

>>12862727
i wish i had done it too, unfortunately the ladies don't like me very much

>> No.12862739

>>12862727
sounds awkward lel

>> No.12862752

Completely false. Big books are the best books.

>> No.12862764

>>12860355
>500 pages should be enough for everybody
t. bill gates

>> No.12862769

>>12860367
>>12860425
wasn't brothers karamazov published on a newspaper as a periodical story?

>> No.12863115

>>12862752
Agreed. Whether or not they are published in single or multiple vols

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>>12860355
Do they still do this

>> No.12863755

>>12862769
Crime and Punishment was

>> No.12863847

>>12860355
i wish a large-chested girl would nurse me so badly

>> No.12864101

>>12860355
The point of really big novels is to deliver really big literature. Not enough do this.

>> No.12864113

>>12860355
I’d rather pay 8 dollars over 5 120 page books than just 22 dollars for a 500 page book

>> No.12864167

>>12862739
In theory it really is, but in practice you are usually stupid with sexual gratification so you don’t really notice

>> No.12864205

>>12862727
>>12864167
normals get out

>> No.12865236

>>12864101
The best novels are under 150 pages.

>> No.12865239

>>12865236
name them

>> No.12865247

t. never read Savage Detectives

>> No.12865385

>>12865236
I think you have it exactly wrong. The best novels are the ones we're talking about: big enough to be published in volumes. And it only makes sense, you have to be good to pull it off.

>> No.12866044

>>12862527
Savannah Brown

>> No.12866513

name a book