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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by folli on Sunday December 29, 2019 @02:40AM (#21904655)
Counterpoint: I prefer the abridged version. Dumas was originally paid by number of pages and it shows IMO.
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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by emodendroket on Sunday December 29, 2019 @11:23AM (#21906666)
He was paid by the number of lines -- which actually does show by, for instance, the number of dialogues with Noirtier, a mute who mostly responds "yes" or "no."
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Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? by techer on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:41AM (#21905226)
Which one would you recommend?
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