Books less than 300 pages

>books less than 300 pages

>’book’ less than 200 pages

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Quality over quantity

If you can't explain a concept in 100 pages, it means you don't understand it.
If you can't tell a story in 100 pages, it means you're just rambling or overfocusing on needless descriptions.

Note: it doesn't apply to advanced sciences

>it doesn’t apply to advanced sciences
your post was stupid to begin with and it ended in a pit you won’t climb out of. Go back to Veeky Forums you pleb rote learning robot nigger

>book

The book of the five rings. Miyamoto Musaship

Miyamoto Musashi (corrected)

What's wrong with short story collections?

Thin lipped Pepe gets me pissed

Not talking about short stories talking about normal stories or other such books, if it is below 400 pages you just know it's low effort trash.

Novellas.

>Frankenstein
>Heart of Darkness
>The Metamorphosis
>Of Mice and Men
>Notes from the Underground.
Repeat ad nauseum.

Yeah but they are short on purpose and they are old.

so? does every other book have to be short "accidentally"? did writers in the previous century have some license to write shorter works?

They were designed as Novellas though, many books today aren't.

Your qualifications are arbitrary then. If you discredit books that are "meant" to be short then you're basically just criticizing books that are badly written.

A book that is under 300 pages but wasn't meant to be is necessarily one where the author couldn't accomplish has intentions ergo bad. So yes. Bad books are bad then.

"novella" is just a part of arbitrary nomenclature regarding length. if you're a writer who wants to release a multi-narrated epic, and you end up writing just 150-250 pages, then you fail. But who said that all authors of 150-250 page long novels had such ambition?

Also, which authors and works do you have in mind. Do you think that Platform or Inherent Vice would've been better as 900 page tomes?

Platform was originally in French, French has less words than English so it's not >300 pages it's >200 pages for French

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the total word count difference is maybe 1500 or so words. answer my question though: would you really find such story better if spread over 900 pages? why?

No it's not, not by a long shot.

>Consequently, English has a much larger vocabulary than either the Germanic languages or the members of the Romance language family to which French belongs.

>less than