Novels that would have worked better as short stories

I'll start with pic related

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Russian authors intentionally wrote lengthy books as russian publishing houses paid them by pages and not by books.

That explains why Dostoevsky went on and on and on in describing how Sonya's sole emotions and character depth was looking down and crying

C&P is not nearly long enough and anybody who complains about the length of books is a certified psued amd gayboi.

Holy shit it all makes sense now.
Got a source on that, just to make sure?

>C&P
>Short story

Get out.

Honest question Yea Forums. I've read that book when I was maybe 15 years old and thought of it as boring shit. Should I try it again or is it just typical literature snob memebook like Ulysses or something?

it's worth trying again, let's say at least the first 200 pages.

This.
I wanted for it to be even longer because of last sentences.

shit tier opinion

I doubt a 15 year old can possibly understand Dosty's work, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to reread. I read C&P when I was 18 and I missed the point then too.

the real punishment was having to read this garbage.

>tfw we don't get a full length treatment of his repentance and the happy life him and sonya live together

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>we don't get a full length treatment of his repentance

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>doubt a 15 year old can possible understand
It's really not that complicated

American Psycho

based /RILEYGANG/

rise up just jitsuers

i dun get it

>I read for the plot

The plot is literally the least interesting part about C&P

Then tell me what it's about then

Then what is the best part?
Prose? I disagree with you, Mr user

No i didnt want it to end and this was basically my first good read. Was a major pleb who never read before

war and peace
a hundred years of solitude
the odyssey
finnegans wake
remembrance of things past

This is blatantly untrue.