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Um, it already does? Unless you're talking about something else...?
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.”
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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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.”
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.
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.
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Could never hang with non-fiction for that long.
Read the original The Stand which is over 800.
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.
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.
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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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.
I didn't really, but thanks anyways.
I love the Shining movie, I've sort of been wanting to read the actual novel for a while now though. Maybe when I get bored, I'll pick some up. To be perfectly honest, the only books I've read in the last couple years have all been music related. I just haven't been inspired to read fiction in a long time.
I did watch the Thinner TV movie a long time ago though - I remember it being goofy as hell. I can sort of get all the horror of anorexia in this 5 minute track and save me the time of reading a whole novel though.
I've never managed to get into Lord of the Rings. Way back when I was a kid, my mom and uncle were bringing me and my brother to see the first movie in theatres. It turned out, they were sold out for that movie, so we ended up seeing Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius in theatre 2 instead. Great movie, I should've taken that experience as a sign that it just wasn't meant for me. As an adult, my wife made me watch the first Lord of the Rings and I was bored to tears. I swear, most of the run time, they're just walking up this big mountain, trying to find the ring, or trying to protect it, I don't ****ing remember, but I kind of wish someone just smashed that god damn ring with a sledgehammer and saved me the time. Good movie to fall asleep to though - I swear that mountain was like, the biggest mountain ever. The only action I even remember was a fight with a troll/giant (or was it a big spider?) - that lasted for all of 5 minutes. That part was ok.
Yeah, I'm not big on fantasy movies. Harry Potter is okay though.
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Hah! I read Shogun which is 1152 pages. Noobs.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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.
It was one of the best novels I've ever read tbh
I could see it starting sorta slow yeah. And I probably never would have had the patience if I wasn't basically locked down in the program with no electronic device to keep me distracted. Like Chula, I don't have the passion or attention span for finishing a 1000 page non fiction book. I'll get bored of the topic before 300 pages is up and that's if I'm really enjoying it.
Like i have a ww2 book about the nazis that is super long like that and I read what I consider a lot of it... like 300+ pages... yet I'm still only a third of the way
Unless you're talking about something else...?
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