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>the book has more than 300 pages

>> No.17463968
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>>17463962
>it has NO pictures

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>>17463962
>the author uses a lot of hard words and I have to constantly check the dictionary

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>>17463962
>the book has less than 300 pages

>> No.17463986
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>the book has 150 pages of the table of contents

>> No.17464081

>>17463962
Just listen to the audiobook bro, 300 pages passes fast

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>the book is biggoted

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>>17463962
>pages

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17464273

>it's double spaced

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>>17463962
>book has a 50 page forward by some random authors

>> No.17464583

>>17463962
>2/5ths of the book is just prefaces to other editions

>> No.17464621

>>17463962
You mean novella. If it isnt 500+ pages it isnt a book.

>> No.17464921

>>17464549
its foreword

>> No.17465345

>>17464921
It's fourwerd

>> No.17465352

>>17464921
who cars

>> No.17465391

>>17464921
Your a faggot

>> No.17465480

>>17464273
When did Oney draw this?

>> No.17465490

>the introduction and foreword are longer than the entire work

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>translator's foreword to the 2nd edition
>editor's introduction to the 5th edition

>> No.17465928

>author rants about an abridged version of his diary desu

>> No.17466713

>>17464273
You can blame editors and agents for this. They all demand double spacing now in manuscripts. At first it was for ease of reading (lmao), but now it's becoming a standard in actual publishing.

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>>17463962
>book doesn’t have cool funny pop up pages, just plain old boring ones

>> No.17467303

>>17463962
I honestly like reading books like those, though you do need a certain mindset for reading them. I mean, I liked RDR2 when others disliked its slow pace, so I can appreciate the merits of a slow book too.

>> No.17467385

>>17463976
This was Moby Dick for me

>> No.17467544

>book has less than 7000 pages

>> No.17467567

>>17463962
The book has 50 pages of references at the back.

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>the book is eating the rose garden again

>> No.17467611

>>17463986
>book has the table of contents at the end of the book

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>book has endnotes instead of footnotes

>> No.17468072

>>17465480
its in one of his videos called "I draw my fans" or something.

>> No.17468087

>book has chapters but no table of contents

>> No.17468088

>>17463962
based

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>book has fake annotations

>> No.17468139

>>17468113
Fuck off kpop faggot

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>the glue used to bind the book split down the middle and now the book's spine is uneven

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>pirated ebook has no clickable table fo contents

>> No.17468204

>>17463962
post some good ones under 300 pages

>> No.17468243

>>17464921
It's only foreword if it's from the French region of Foreword.

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>>17468139
>it's a parallel text edition

>> No.17468536

>>17468050
Hate that shit

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>>17463976
I spent like 10 minutes a page because I didn't understand his language.

>> No.17468597

>>17463962
> i have to read something longer than a tweet

>> No.17468612

>>17468204
The Picture of Dorian Gay

>> No.17468860

>>17468204
ANIMAL FARUM

>> No.17468874

Just pretend it is multiple 200 page books

>> No.17468997

>>17463962
>its pictures are coloured so i cant colour them in

>> No.17470048

>>17468204
Metamorphosis or In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

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>I have depression and can't focus enough to read more than ~2 pages of a book at a time

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>the author drew his own cover