Chula Vista

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

This is unfair.

I was perfectly capable of writing long blocks of poor, bog-standard text with a blue ink pen and some copybook paper. Who needs a typewriter? I still remember the problem of the pen blotting, and how annoying it would be to have to keep squeezing the nib (shut up Batty) to remove the excess ink so I could go on. Also, the feel of a copybook page heavy both sides with ink writing, and all the little notes scribbled on the cover. I even remember some of them.

"One day everyone will pay"

"Think they're so smart"

"How much to kill someone?"

and so on.

The little stick figures in pools of red ink with various weapons jammed in them were of course completely unconnected to these.

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Chula Vista

Hey, can this board be changed to accept reaction emoticons? Would have saved me this post.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Um, it already does? Unless you're talking about something else...?

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Chula Vista

Like this.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Trollheart

Ah I see. Okay then. Well, no doubt we have them over at SCD (plug plug) but here it would be about as likely they'd implement something new as it would be that I might write a succinct post making my point in less than fifty words.

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jwb

the biggest one I read was the brothers Karamazov which was like 950 pages. No way I would've ever read that Nixon memoir though.

Chula Vista

Could never hang with non-fiction for that long.

Read the original The Stand which is over 800.
Also the Foundation Trilogy - that's about 750.

Longest non-fiction is maybe Iron Coffins at a little over 400.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

SGR

I tried reading The Brothers Karamazov. I maybe got 40 pages in before I got bored. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mindset at the time. The exploits of Nixon getting stoned in Caracas was much more interesting reading.

I tried reading that one too - got maybe 200 pages in - but there's too many ****ing characters in that book, I'd have to take notes to ****ing keep track of them all. The only King novel I ever read completely was Cujo.

Trollheart

If you want recs for King (I don't know if you do, but if you do) Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, The Green Mile, The Shining, The Dead Zone, Thinner, Christine, Misery.

Personally my best is probably Lord of the Rings (about 1000 pages) but of course if you start counting trilogies/series then it's well over the 2-3,000 mark.

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