Please tell me you are not assigning a 709 page novel. In previous posts I have listed reasons why I do not enjoy reading. I would like to add to that list the length of most works of literature. After seeing that the novel we will next be dealing with in class is House of Leaves, I looked at the amazon page only to find that the book is 709 pages!!!!!!!!!!! So we are supposed to read a textbook in 2 weeks? I don't think there is a book I would be interested in enough of such a length to think that 709 pages could be anything less than a daunting task. To me, its kind of the same principle as when a teacher gives an assignment along with a length requirement. Why can't they just say, write as much as it takes you to fully explain your answer? I think books also fall into this trap. There is always so much extra material with little relavance to the story in most books, I am fearful of how much extra "stuff" there will be in the span of those 709 pages.
And just as we were doing so well with short plays and articles, what happened?
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RELAX--did you actually look at the book? There are many, many pages where there is one word on the page. Deep breath my friend, dee breath
still have to carry around all 709 pages regardless of how many words are on each page.
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