On my lunch hour today I bought a 1,200-page biography on John Steinbeck. It was expensive, but it's something I can have forever. (It'll take me that long to read it, anyway.)I feel like a big book, especially a big nonfiction book, is something that becomes a part of your character, something you lug around and people ask about. "How are you coming on the book?" they'll say. A person reading a humongous biography is seen as quietly ambitious and slightly eccentric.
Imagine being the kind of person someone would write 1,200 pages about?
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