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[appending_doom]

When I planned to someday read "Journey to the West", it was ignorant of the fact that this classic of Chinese literature is 1400 pages longNot to say I'm not planning to make a good run of it, now that I'm past the bit I know backward and forward (I will confess to having an unreasonable love of Monkey Kine/Son Goku

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[foxfour]

aw, c'mon, that's a totally decent size for a classic. think shōgun! or moby-dick!

[appending_doom]

I only got through the latter by being allowed to skip the most egregious episodes of whaling porn.

[foxfour]

my mom began to read it to me as a bedtime story many years ago. she wanted to give up, but i never let her…

[q10]

i'm pretty sure my unabridged paperback copy of Moby Dick is under 600 pages.

[eclectic_boy]

If you read it on the original scroll, it's only one page long!

[appending_doom]

It would be significantly heavier than the 1400-page pdf on my laptop. Heavier than my laptop, too.

[lula_vampiro]

Damn, son, y'all got some small font. Mine is 2500 pages or so. How far into it are you? I'm a little over a quarter done.

[appending_doom]

Chapter 9

[rose_garden]

It's on my shelf in the to-read section. We will have to compare thoughts when I actually get around to reading it!

(Which might be very soon because I am rushing through the book I'm reading now.)

[ampleforth]

It's way shorter when you read the comic book version (as we did in my Chinese class).

[appending_doom]

Well, sure, if you want to be lazy about it.