![]() ![]() It has its flaws, but I doubt at the time of its writing these were seen as flaws. ![]() Just one satiric thrust after another, right into the belly of society. This book is so overwhelmingly clever that every third or fourth sentence, I had to stand back and marvel at how hilariously clever it was. Well, no, six, because I’ve already made my way through Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash, which isn’t actually that long–480 pages. The Really Long Book is on my mind lately, because I have a stack of Really/Fairly Long Books to read. I don’t even know if that’s true, but I like the idea so much that I don’t care if it’s true. Its length is often glorious – but it is also an admission of failure. I enjoyed this GAWKER essay by Tom Whyman about Really Long Books:Ī book is Really Long because there is something essentially stupid about it, something broken: its length is the product of the writer having no ultimate clue how to say what they want to be saying. ![]() What got me started today Photo – Unsplash ![]()
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