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>Book is over 400 pages

>> No.16496003

>>16495995
>book’s introduction is over 400 pages while the book itself is 60 pages

>> No.16496014

>>16496003
Ratio wise, that's litterally every theater piece by George Bernard Shaw.

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>>16496003
>the real book was the introduction
>the "book itself" was just an excuse to write the introduction

>> No.16496120

>>16496003
>>16496021
Any books that do this?

>> No.16496122

>>16496120
Pale Fire is the closest thing I can imagine

>> No.16496137

>>16495995
I agree more and more, even though long books can be uniquely comfy it's almost always at the cost of a padded-out narrative. Dostoevsky is one of the worst offenders, and Dickens, and everyone else who got paid by the word, imagine that.

>> No.16496202

If you need more than 200 pages to say what you need you suck at writing

>> No.16496257

>>16496202
based

>> No.16496418

>buy atlas shrugged to figure out how libertarians think
>its a shitty paperback but its like 1k its not that bad
>tiny font ugly paper

>> No.16496433

>>16496120
all of them

>> No.16496489

>>16496202
>to say what you need
art is an end in itself tho. i agree that if you are going to use fiction merely to make a point you should make it a concise parable, &c, but otherwise it's simply a shitty medium to be trying to "say" things. even at its best, like TSZarathustra, it doesn't really function by itself very well. If that was the only work the Nietz had done it would just look like schizoposting

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>>16495995
>Book is over 400 pages
>there is only 1 word per page

>> No.16497245

i'd rather have 500 pages in 12 point font than 200 in 10

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>>16495995
>book is over 200 pages, but under 300 pages.

>> No.16497290

>>16496120
some ranciere stuff

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>>16495995
>first book in the trilogy is over 400 pages
>the hero is only 2 years old at the end of the novel

>> No.16497739

>>16496418
Not really representative of libertardian thought though. Even they think she's a sociopath

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>Book is over 400 pages

>> No.16497863

>>16496003
Oh how much I hate introductions.

>> No.16497880

>>16496137
>Dickens got paid by the word

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>Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

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>Book doesn't have a wikipedia page.

>> No.16498463

>>16496120
I think I did read one book where the introduction was longer than the "main thing", but I can't recall which one it was.

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>>16496120
was skimming half of the book

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>book is under 2000 pages

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>the book is written by a black author

>> No.16499530

>>16499523
Good thing James Baldwin is an honorary white man

>> No.16499545

>>16496489
+1

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>>16499523
*blocks your path*

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>>16496120
Novelization of Dark Knight Rises

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>Been reading War and Peace for a couple of weeks now and I still have over 1000 pages to go