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Is shorter worse? I recently checked out "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", one of the volumes on the list in my little black book from back before Kiva H
by greggarious 4y ago
Is shorter worse? I recently checked out "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", one of the volumes on the list in my little black book from back before Kiva Han became a Chase Manhattan branch, and was surprised how thin it is.
(I also begrudgingly reread Lolita and Animal Farm, both of which aren't exactly War and Peace in terms of page count... believe it or not, you can use "GRE words" outside the GRE when writing literature.)
Maybe folks should worry about whether their book will be read for generations instead of being payola'd into some airport lobby.
- TylerE 4y agoMust be a heavily abridged version. My full edition of RaFotRE is over 2000 pages in 3 volumes.
- chrisbaker98 4y agoAre you sure you're not thinking of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"? That book is extremely long. I haven't heard of the book "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" but it might be this one from 2015: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25686327-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25686327-the-rise-and-fa...
- greggarious 4y agoCan you post the ISBN? I suspect I got the wrong one, and Amazon owns goodreads. (You'd be amazed the adventures you have at the library if you tell them you're doing a series of inter library loans because you're worried the Saudis owned your phone and Bezos can't be trusted.)