Would you read a book that was a 1,000 page long sentence

No. If it had been written before WWII and stood the test of time, maybe.

Lions didn't have access to typewriters prior to WWII.

They're not having a lot of luck with voice recognition software either.

You had me at mountain lioness.

Pshaw, R2. Elon Musk's brain implant.

Duh.

Umm no. I could barely make it with op’s post.

That pink sweater is peak frau. Impressive rack.

Below is the authoress.

This sounds really pretentious. Even Joyce didn't have Molly Bloom blather on for 400,000 words.

Squirrels, death

Some of Henry James's sentences feel longer than that - not that there's anything wrong with that.

It's a wonderful book. Despite the page count you get into a rhythm. It's not pretentious. You get to know the character and the story, such that it is, the way we really get to know one another, by seeing the connections they make as they talk, slips of tongue and word leaps. The urgency in the novel hints at some shit that went down. She doubts herself, reveals herself and her family. It's a fucking wild ride. Utterly unlike anything else. I loved Ulysses and Tristram Shandy. This book had the playfulness of Tristram Shandry (language is a delight) with the intricacy of Ulysses—with way more vitality. The intricacy serves the intimacy not the proof of the intellect of the author.

Try a sample and you'll know right away if it's for you, this fucking triumph.

In school, I constantly got in trouble for writing sentences my English teacher felt were too long.

I am going to hunt that cunt down and throw this book at him.

R10 you make me want to read it! Thanks.

It takes time thinking when putting a coffee spoon from cup to mouth.

No because everytime I hear a book or story hyped, I wind up hating it. I loathed Jonathan Franzen's boring sub-par work. He is a fraud who thinks he's a genius . I couldn't get through Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, completely unreadable. I thought Cat People, the short story in the New Yorker that everyone was raving about, was cliched crap for overly indulged upper middle class women . I hate Gillian Flynn's books for similar reasons and I don't think she is as perceptive as some seem to think. The "cool girl " speech in gone girl was self pitying bullshit. I also thought The Goldfinch was dreary. I just know I will hate this.

[quote] "Ducks, Newburyport is, as The Telegraph describes it, “the interior monologue of an Ohio housewife ruminating on everything from dinner party menus to the dark side of Trump’s America.”

For this, I can just read DL.

Seems like a gimmick to make up for lack of substance, like writing in second person in most cases.

What books did you like R14?

R17 Robert Harris, Ian Rankin, Phillip Kerr, Alan Furst, Queen Agatha of course . I'll admit I don't read much fiction anymore. I find it much harder to get immersed in fiction as I get older.

Stunt writing holds little appeal to most readers.

She married her professor. Her daddy was a well-known literary figure. She's just trying to impress her family.

Gimmick. Gimmicky. Gimmick.

That plus the 1000 pages = instant No. Real writers aren't interested in stunts.

So the picture is in German??

R14, agree with everything- but -Gone Girl. Page turner, for me anyway-

Quite big tits

She looks like she's too old for periods anyway.

A shopping list is not art and there's a whole page that's nothing but product names. And there's a constant repeat of the phrase, "the fact is" which makes one think that, of the 400,000 words, "original writing" before the copy and paste inserts to extend the text, comprises about twelve words.

I was so high when I wrote that, please excuse the rambling. Wish I'd polished it before posting.

R27 is author Lucy Ellmann, discussing her book.

R25 I laughed out loud.

R17, I hated all the books you mentioned, and I fucking love Ducks, Newburyport.

So far the top 3 are r15, r25, and r28.

James Joyce beat all you yahoos to it......

Laurence Sterne did.