forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @evastardust groupRRAAAARRL

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45?!?!?!

Wait lemme see how long the longest chapter in this book is
I forget which chapter my teacher said was the longest but it was one of these two
Queer Lodgings- 28
Flies and Spiders- 31
Looks like it’s Flies and Spiders. 31 pages. (I’m glad she read those chapters to us)

(We’re reading The Hobbit btw. Which, I like the plot, but the chapters are too long and the print is too small and close together so I can’t focus)

To be fair, I’m a sophomore in college

I’m in 8th grade honors reading

Well, I have trouble focusing on books as it is, and long chapters (+ small print) makes it a lot harder

THE CHAPTER I HAVE TO READ TONIGHT FOR HOMEWORK
IS 18 PAGES
18
PAGES
TOO MUCH

Most people finished it in class! I only read like 4 pages because I couldn’t focus!

Me. Wait, The Hobbit? That's an easy read though…

I wish I got to read The Hobbit for school

It's so good.

did someone say The Hobbit? okay but that's legitimately my favorite book of like…all time

long chapters are the best though??

honestly I hardly even acknowledge chapters when I read. I plow through books like how I eat chocolate chip muffins.

oyyy, The Hobbit was so good

long chapters are the best though??

honestly I hardly even acknowledge chapters when I read. I plow through books like how I eat chocolate chip muffins.

Yeah, same.

Idk, I prefer shorter chapters so I can read in smaller increments, but long chapters work fine if written well. That said, it's been a long time since I've read for pleasure.

I prefer chapters on the shorter side because I mostly read at night before I go to bed. Ideally, I like to read at least one chapter every night and a lot of times I'm pretty tired so that's easier when chapters are shorter. I find that around 10 pages is usually a pretty reasonable length for me.

This sounds like you are a conscientious reader. Wth tbh. How even? I either read or I am not reading. That’s about it.

Dude, the only time I have ever done that was with Les Mis, and that was because I needed to make sure I actually slept, lol

Did you find the part on Waterloo excessively boring? I had some trouble getting through that.

Oof yes. It was…long. That and the monologue about the fricking sewers lol

Honestly the sewer jokes are one of my favorite parts of the fandom.

Yeah true. But still. Victor Hugo knows a lot of words. And concise. Is not one of them

Amen.

My brother asked why his sentences were so long and i replied with "because Victor Hugo had a love affair with semi colons". And…I still feel like that sums it up pretty well lol

LOL!!!

I also had the shittiest copy ever, so. The print was tiny and the pages were small, and…god. I can't even describe it. It was terrible

Victor Hugo just couldn't let anything go until he had complained about it for at least 20 million pages

He was certainly verbose.

I also had the shittiest copy ever, so. The print was tiny and the pages were small, and…god. I can't even describe it. It was terrible

I can imagine your pain.

I read The hunchback of Notre Dame and dear god, that was the only book where i skipped pages because of all the damn building descriptions. I wanna know what happens to the characters, i dont need a detailed description of the whole block

Honestly the sewer jokes are one of my favorite parts of the fandom.

Kath Steele voice
tHe fRENcH sEWeR sYStEm!!

War and Peace is good so far, but dear GOD does it drag….

I didn't skip any of Le Mis for bragging rights so now I'm using them.

Same. I always read all the way through on my first go.