JayashreeMegan

Lounging in the octopus' garden...

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Finished in putting edits for the 15,000 words I have for a novel. Another few thousand words (35,000) or so, and some more edits, and it’ll be done. I know I can do it.

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The Average Book Has 64,500 Words

Here’s a sampling of classics and where their word counts land them on the spectrum. Click on the title to view all the statistical viscera.

Animal Farm

29,966 words (75% of books have more words)

Ethan Frome

30,191 words (75% of books have more words)

The Crying of Lot 49

46,573 words (64% of books have more words)

Slaughterhouse-Five

47,192 words (64% of books have more words)

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

53,510 words (58% of books have more words)

Lord of the Flies

62,481 words (51% of books have more words)

Brave New World

64,531 words (50% of books have more words)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

70,570 words (45% of books have more words)

Portnoy’s Complaint

78,535 words (41% of books have more words)

Lolita

112,473 words (21% of books have more words)

Madame Bovary

117,963 words (18% of books have more words)

Mansfield Park

159, 344 words (9% of books have more words)

Moby-Dick

209,117 words (4% of books have more words)

East of Eden

226,741 words (3% of books have more words)

Ulysses

262,869 words (2% of books have more words)

Middlemarch

310,593 words (2% of books have more words)

War and Peace

544,406 words (0% of books have more words)

(Source: amandaonwriting, via teachingliteracy)

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Me and Books

me:
*just finished reading Harry Potter*
me:
I WANT TO STUDY AT HOGWAAAARTS!
me:
*just finished reading Lord of the Rings*
me:
I want to have an adventure in Middle Earth
me:
*just finished The Lightning Thief*
me:
I wish I was a demigod.
me:
*just finished The Hunger Games*
me:
I'm good.