I was asked why I was reading a 900-page novel.

And to that I said - "well, it's a long story."

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jordanlund@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 329d (2 replies)

I read Stephen King's "Insomnia" in one night.

When asked how I did it, I said it was easy, I didn't sleep.

SolSerkonos@piefed.social · 11 pts · 329d (1 reply)

"I followed the directions" is what I expected from the punchline.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 328d

I listened to Faithless instead

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 329d (3 replies)

I've read the entire wheel of time series.

Like.

That was a lot of words.

And there are entire books where NOTHING HAPPENS.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 7 pts · 329d

i don't think that's really fair, for example, in the slowest one I grew to hate Faile more than any other character in literary history, and that's technically a result of character exploration.

FlyingCircus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Excuse me, a lot of braids got tugged in those books.

krooklochurm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 328d

Iirc only one braid got tugged. It just got tugged a lot.

SolSerkonos@piefed.social · 6 pts · 329d

900 pages is nice. It's enough to get me engaged, but not enough to drag.

sundray@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 329d (1 reply)

I read a book called the History of Helium recently. I couldn't put it down!

gws@programming.dev · 3 pts · 328d

Not the light reading I would have expected.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 329d

Me rn after i ran out of chapters that were adapted into manga form already so now im continuing with the original novel form instead. Its 5800 pages O.O i still have ~3000 left

MacNCheezus@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 329d

Well, tell it to your momma