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Novels that would have worked better as short stories Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:50:49 2019 No.12987581 [Reply] [Original]

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>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:54:56 2019 No.12987595 >>12987581 Russian authors intentionally wrote lengthy books as russian publishing houses paid them by pages and not by books.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 22 21:58:34 2019 No.12987616 >>12987595 That explains why Dostoevsky went on and on and on in describing how Sonya's sole emotions and character depth was looking down and crying

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 02:16:45 2019 No.12988718 >>12987581 C&P is not nearly long enough and anybody who complains about the length of books is a certified psued amd gayboi.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 02:19:34 2019 No.12988727 >>12987595 Holy shit it all makes sense now. Got a source on that, just to make sure?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 03:55:25 2019 No.12989080 >>12987581 >C&P >Short story Get out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 04:14:07 2019 No.12989143 >>12987581 Honest question /lit/. I've read that book when I was maybe 15 years old and thought of it as boring shit. Should I try it again or is it just typical literature snob memebook like Ulysses or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:03:38 2019 No.12989287 >>12989143 it's worth trying again, let's say at least the first 200 pages.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:04:25 2019 No.12989289 >>12988718 This. I wanted for it to be even longer because of last sentences.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:05:12 2019 No.12989291 >>12987581 shit tier opinion >>12989143 I doubt a 15 year old can possibly understand Dosty's work, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to reread. I read C&P when I was 18 and I missed the point then too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:08:43 2019 No.12989302 >>12987581 the real punishment was having to read this garbage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:10:16 2019 No.12989305 File: 67 KB, 720x467, 1524070924893.2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12988718 >tfw we don't get a full length treatment of his repentance and the happy life him and sonya live together

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:22:25 2019 No.12989345 File: 257 KB, 700x900, 1511639849597.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12989305 >we don't get a full length treatment of his repentance

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:26:31 2019 No.12989352 >>12989291 >doubt a 15 year old can possible understand It's really not that complicated

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:27:27 2019 No.12989353 American Psycho

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:28:33 2019 No.12989357 >>12989345 based /RILEYGANG/ rise up just jitsuers

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:37:56 2019 No.12989373 >>12989345 i dun get it

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 05:53:46 2019 No.12989405 >>12987581 >I read for the plot The plot is literally the least interesting part about C&P

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 06:09:42 2019 No.12989431 >>12989352 Then tell me what it's about then

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 07:48:45 2019 No.12989697 >>12989405 Then what is the best part? Prose? I disagree with you, Mr Anon

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 07:54:13 2019 No.12989720 >>12987581 No i didnt want it to end and this was basically my first good read. Was a major pleb who never read before

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 12:50:50 2019 No.12990935 war and peace a hundred years of solitude the odyssey finnegans wake remembrance of things past

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 23 12:51:57 2019 No.12990937 >>12987595 This is blatantly untrue.