Who /readsbooksbasedonlength/ here? 300-450 pages is *perfect*.

>>8877157
delete this shit

>>8877173
You aren't smarter because you read long books.

You force yourself to read these door-stopper snore-fests only for your own vanity.

You absorb less and less the longer the book is.

Do you even remember anything from the 'books' you read?

I do that. A LOT of the books I read are <300, even <200, short story collections, poetry, plays, etc. because I value my time.
I choose my doorstoppers very carefully always after reading another of the author's smaller books to see if I like their style. Read Tolstoy's short stories before trying AK. Not bothering with Wallace/Pynchon after reading their shorter stuff, no matter how much hype there is here.

>>8877200
I have a preference for short stories and novellas.
I also have a preference for threads that aren't trash

>>8877200
I doubt anyone is under the illusion that reading novels of significant length makes them any smarter. Long books should be able to tell a larger story or make a bigger point. Not all of them accomplish that but some do. Close yourself off from experiencing that is just foolish

>>8877231
^*closing

DFW must have been pretty stupid to think people would want to read his long ass book. Even stupider though, some people actually did it!

>>8877157
lol you read a fat book once and started getting all opinionated.

File: 1474071035968.jpg (20KB, 460x276px) Image search: [Google]

20KB, 460x276px

>>8877237

>>8877243
I tried to read a fat book.

I got that classic 'are-they-still-on-namek' feeling after around 300 pages and realised there was 1000 to go.

>>8877245
Seriously man. It's more than 1000 pages. He must have been ridiculously self-absorbed.

>>8877264
>ambitious art is only the product of self absorbed artists

You got any reasons for this mad assertion?

>>8877289
Nope. I just think his book is too long. Longer than the Iliad and the Odyssey together, longer than The Brothers Karamazov, and longer than Ulysses.

I just don't think DFW's ambition warrants that length.

>>8877346
Thank you oh "Great Arbiter of Lengths of Books"

>>8877364
Okay enjoy 1070 or whatever pages of okay writing by some professor who killed himself. We all have our own tastes.