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6629135 No.6629135 [Reply] [Original]

>mfw the book has more than 500 pages

>> No.6629143

*looks at book* you're a big guy

>> No.6629147
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6629147

>mfw my book has more than 500 pages

>> No.6629166

>>6629143
That's the joke.

>> No.6629171
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>>6629135
>the book comes in 4 volumes, each volume being more than 500 pages

>> No.6629174
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6629174

>book has over 500 pages
>it is the first book in a set of 7 volumes
>mfw

>> No.6629175

300+ is too much for me
short stories 4 lyfe

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>>6629174
>>>it is the first book in a set of 7 volumes
>set of 7 volumes
>set
>volumes
>7
Confirmed for shit book.

>> No.6629188
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6629188

>each book has the double number of pages of each previous book

>> No.6629189

>>6629166
For you

>> No.6629190

>>6629174
That's a great autoportrait

>> No.6629195

>>6629190
Did it paint itself?

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6629200

>Book 1 ends in a cliffhanger
>There isn't a book 2

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>>6629200
> there actually is book 2
> there is even book 3
> but they are lost

>> No.6629341
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6629341

>>6629174
You called?

>> No.6629346

>>6629200
>>book ends mid sentence
>>second book burned by author before he dies

>> No.6629356
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>>6629346
Nice one Gogol, nice one.

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6629361

>>6629147
>yfw nobody is ever going to read your book

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6629380

>book is less than 200 pages
>£10.99

>> No.6629390

>>6629361
I will read it, anon, I promise.

>> No.6629423
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>>6629356
In April 1848 Gogol returned to Russia from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and passed his last years in restless movement throughout the country. While visiting the capitals, he stayed with friends such as Mikhail Pogodin and Sergei Aksakov. During this period, he also spent much time with his old Ukrainian friends, Maksymovych and Osyp Bodiansky. He intensified his relationship with a starets or spiritual elder, Matvey Konstantinovsky, whom he had known for several years. Konstantinovsky seems to have strengthened in Gogol the fear of perdition by insisting on the sinfulness of all his imaginative work. Exaggerated ascetic practices undermined his health and he fell into a state of deep depression. On the night of 24 February 1852 he burned some of his manuscripts, which contained most of the second part of Dead Souls. He explained this as a mistake, a practical joke played on him by the Devil. Soon thereafter, he took to bed, refused all food, and died in great pain nine days later. (Wikipedia 2015)

that's horrible

>> No.6629424

>>6629341
no, the gunslinger is like 300 pages

>> No.6629781
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6629781

>the first book from 27 volumes, has more than 800 pages

>> No.6629821
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6629821

>The whole series has 40 books

I know people say Pratchett is based, however when I start a series I read until the end of it. 40 books is way too much, IMO.

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>>6629135
>"book" is less than 100 pages

>> No.6629843

>>6629824
What is a novella?

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>>6629821
It's barely a series, more like a bunch of story lines that are only tangentially connected. I get that feeling though, I've only read one of the smaller arcs and one of the standalone novels.

>> No.6629893

>>6629853
Thank you for the pic. If I ever read Discworld, I'll use it.

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>>6629308
oh shit that hit close to home.
>mfw a book is over a thousand pages and still incomplete.

>> No.6629939

>>6629424
Yeah, but the entirety of the series is 4,250 pages.

>> No.6630331
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6630331

>mfw Infinite Jest

>> No.6630341

>>6629200
B A S E D G O G O L

>> No.6630350

does it make me an elitist if i only read books over 400 pages because anything less than that is for terrible pleb shit?

>> No.6630352

>>6629423
pretty good joke by the devil though

>> No.6630360

>>6629824
wth are the dorms that big
>>6630350
this is a literal child's logic

>> No.6630372

>>6629781
>spans of 20-30 pages with 1-5 lines per page

I get what you're trying to do Danielewski, but the gimmick is getting old now.

>> No.6630419

>>6629361
I already read it

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>>6629135
the first book i read that was that long was a biography of richard yates.
I'm now obsessed with all of his books

>mfw this is my first post on lit