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Give me books with a sweet pages-money ratio. Deliciously long novels, tasty compilations, sweet collections, etc.

>le steal books!
No.
>le ebooks!
No.

>> No.23171157

>>23170945
Anything by:
Stephen King
Brandon Sanderson
N. K. Jemisin

>> No.23171198
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>> No.23171256

>>23171198
This
I read 10 pages so far
>the world was created
>mankind was deceived by a talking serpent
>fratricide
>extinction level flood, but theres a survival boat with all the kinds of animals in the world
>people tried to make a tower to Heaven but failed
All that in 10 pages
No other book delivers so much in so few pages

>> No.23171742

>>23170945
The Anatomy of Melancholy is ~1150 pages of Renaissance-era musing on melancholy. You can get a legacy reprint from different companies for $10, but I recommend the NYRB paperback (the paper feel is exquisite and the body text Latin is translated). Could probably find a copy of Harold Bloom's massive poetry anthology used. I know there's an edition of Homer with BOTH the Iliad and Odyssey. The Decameron is probably very cheap used.

>> No.23171756
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>>23170945

>> No.23171784

as a leaf, i can go to goodwill and buy 700 page novels for two (2) dollars. i'd imagine the experience is similar elsewhere (but the selection is inconsistent, trending towards bad)

>> No.23172814

>>23171742
Thanks
>>23171756
Nice

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>>23170945
>pages-money ratio