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>>8748003

Honestly, it a format of writing that the bulk of writers should employ. I am to understand that, from a publishing standpoint, the difference in cost between printing a novel and a novella are basically non-existent however, publishers feel that people won't pay novel prices for novellas so they don't print them because they don't get as much profit from them.

In terms of writing though, they are superior.

Take someone like Stephen King for example. The guy has talent. He is descriptive, and a good word smith (fucks up endings almost universally though) but it is pretty obvious that he pads a shit load of his works to keep the word and page count. It is nice that he can so intricately describe people laying on the grass and looking at the sun or how water flows down a street in a small town for multiple paragraphs, however, none of this adds to a story and is just a very lengthy aside that actually slows down the story incredibly.

A Novella? It allows for characters to be established, the plot to not be rushed, and enough detail to have plenty of great mental pictures and such. In short,novellas offer a complete and well written story without the down-time and stupid side stories that go fucking nowhere that is prevalent in a lot of novels. They are fast reads, not because of the few pages and lesser word count, but because the flow of a well constructed story causes the reader to burn through the book without being fatigued.

I am happy it is starting to gain more traction with e-readers by allowing digital publishing and such and I will even give props to nip translations through companies like Yen Press to advance the medium and help get more people into reading books these days.

>>8748003
nigga we only read big dick books, ulysses, infinite jesjt, gravitys ranbow zettels traum the fucking list goes on

>>8748030
Are you pretending to be a redditor?

>>8747960
Yes.
Jesus was right too and everybody misinterpreted

Maybe.
Das Kapital affirms the worker's revolution is an inevitability.
We still live in capitalism.

No he was quite left wing.

bump tbqh senpai

Haven't read him, nor do I want to, so I'll summarize what I've seen here:
>Best works are Siddharta and Steppenwolf
>On /lit/ beginner lists
>According to some, Siddharta was pesudo hack shit
>/lit/ needs less rec threads

>>8747762
check out narziss und goldmund as well

>>8747706
Agreed. It's comfy desu.

Fucking tard, how can you even say this shit while posting on /lit/ of all fucking places? Talk about a hilarious contradiction, That "utopia" has no books, no art, no creativity, no free thinking in it. There wouldn't be a Brave New World for your retarded self to read if you were living in a "utopia" like that.

Kant would disagree.

>>8747703
more than you, and no

works cited:
your insecurity

>>8747703
Not many, he was blind so how could he see them

>>8747703
I reckon he only actually read a couple of encyclopaedias and just extrapolated from them.

Childhood's End.

"Earth Abides" by George R. Stewart.

>>8747640
On the Beach by Nevil Shute

>>8747637
reading comprehension

>>8747665
>paper magically puts words in your head better

Horseshit

Towel Inn

Plath

nabokov

>>8747569
Read a short Nabokov. Invitation to a Beheading, Sebastian Knight, Pnin. Great literary fun.

And did you say you read the whole damn thing, deuterocanonical books books and all?

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>>8747569

anyone have something more fun to roll with that this?

>>8747595
yeah. i read it all. was just completely unfamiliar with biblical stories, so didn't want to feel like i was missing anything. short nabokov sounds good.

>>8747597
rolling just in case

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>>8747525

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Muh diary
Fuck

>>8747465
>external control
Make that external factors: makes the point better.

>>8747465
A mix of technology, bias, and optimism.

>>8747473
Maybe it is a bias itself, but is it a cultural bias or also innate bias?
John Gray would argue it is a cultural bias leftover from Christianity. Is he in the right here?

What did you mean with technology?

>>8747343
Tolstoevsky

you think you will impress her but theres a better chance at making it obvious how little you know about the subject

Vodka and a Putin poster

ahh like my favorite film!!!! it's such a fantastic work, omg!! no director ever came this close before!! i have that poster on my wall, AHH!H!!!!

>>8747281
Cease
Useless
Considerations,
Kid.

In Search of Lost Time

I read Stories of Your Life and Others last week and found it enjoyable. That said, I also found the collection pretty uneven. If you like Borges, you'll probably enjoy "the Evolution of Human Science".

To answer your question, I really enjoyed "Story of Your Life". The structure of the frame story is pretty interesting and effective imo and it definitely leaves a pretty strong emotional impact. It was a bit like reading Borges for the first time again.

>>8746972

I love Freeza

Hey, autist, can you stop making a bunch threads with the same Freeza picture.

American Psycho

>>8746795
The Lovely Bones.

>>8746795
>the most wonderful being
If this being was so wonderful, then why did you break up?
You are just experiencing withdrawals from your addiction. It will pass.