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1367031 No.1367031 [Reply] [Original]

So, why write excessively long stories, when you could express your idea just as easily through a short story? Do authors simply like to flaunt their massive ego penis?

>> No.1367039

Why the fuck would you write anything when you could just make a movie.

>> No.1367040

paid by the word

>> No.1367047

Why the fuck read anything when you could just watch TV?

>> No.1367051

Why the fuck live when you could just die?

>> No.1367055

Why the fuck would you have sex if you could just masturbate?

>> No.1367067

Why even typ

>> No.1367109

Spoiler: The constance garnett translation is long and sucks

>> No.1367117

NOT LIKE LEO TOLSTOY WAS THE CHAMP OF SHORTER WORKS.

>> No.1367130

Crime and Punishment, War and Peace... why not just Crime and War?

>> No.1367134
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1367134

Why have sex for an hour when you could just as easily blow your load in 37 seconds?

>> No.1367145

Everyone here brings up good points.

>> No.1367150

>>1367130

Different authors, maybe.

>> No.1367156

>>1367150
woooooooosh

>> No.1367157

why bother reading a book that's so long if u are of the same opinion as the OP (who just happens to be a fag)

>> No.1367236

Most of the character in Crime and Punishment could have been cut out being that they served no purpose.