On reading long novels

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“I can’t say that I enjoyed every minute of it, or even that I enjoyed all that much of it at all, but I can say that by the time I got to the end of it I was glad to have read it. Not just glad that I had finally finished it, but that I had started it and seen it through. I felt as though I had been through something major, as though I had not merely experienced something but done something, and that the doing and the experiencing were inseparable in the way that is peculiar to the act of reading. And I’ve had that same feeling, I realize, with almost every very long novel I’ve read before or since.”

—Mark O’Connell, on The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels in The Millions

(emphasize ours)

Notes

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    so true… especially about...one memoir i read about some lady who
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    I definitely know this feeling. Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina come to mind. For my boyfriend Michael, Infinite...
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    THIS. future students, take note.
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