Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Long Novels......

"Reading a novel of punishing difficulty and length is a version of climbing Everest for people who prefer not to leave the house. And people who climb Everest don't howl with exhilaration at the summit because the mountain was a good or a well made or an interesting mountain per se, but because they're overawed at themselves for having done such a fantastically difficult thing."

--Mark O'Connell, from his essay "The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels" in the Millions - from Shelf Awareness

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