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The novel so long it feels like a sentence

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While most authors struggle to hit standard page counts, Marcel Proust wrote a sprawling epic that drags on for an absurdly long time. Reading it completely feels less like a cozy pastime and more like serving a lengthy linguistic sentence.

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