Length

How can there be objective issues if they are issues? They depend on someone to have an issue with a long book, stop being retarded

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>>8626803
Depends on whether the length is actual plot or just unnecessary padding with purple prose. Read any book from the Spanish "Boom" and you'll see what I mean. Fuck this movement.

>>8626819
I'm saying, is a book being too long an issue in and of itself?

Brevity - wit
t. Wilhelm Shakespears

>>8626827
No, it's an issue for people who don't like long books and not an issue for those who like them.

>>8626824
are you including marquez? because i dont see how there was any wasted space in 100 years

>>8626803
a book with dense ideas and prose needs to be short. i dont want to spend 800 pages on sprints, i need an easy jog if im going to attempt something that long. its all personal really, but IJ just bored me.

>>8626835
Said the most longwinded character in the play

>>8626846
Nah, he's good. I'm talking about hacks like Carpentier and Cortazar.

some writers can blabber
i've heard that ayn rand is an offender but what can you expect from a smack fueled author

>>8626861
i want to learn more about the movement, even if it is shit. is there anything worthwhile or anything noteworthy i should at least look up? mainly to make my own judgement on this

would you consider don quixote to be too long for what its going for? its a fun read but does it go too far?

>>8626870
Cortazar's Hopscotch is a good place to start.