Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Slightly Offended, Sort of

Too many words?
Story is too long?
There’s just so many
words to choose,
that I really like to use.

It hurts man,
it hurts.

Author                                  — Book Title                                      — Word Count
(in case it wasn’t obvious)
Alan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country
83,774
Alice Walker
The Color Purple
66,556
Amy Tan
The Kitchen God’s Wife
159,276
Amy Tan
Joy Luck Club
91,419
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
561,996
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
311,596
Betty Smith
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
145,092
Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
135,420
Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders
138,087
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
107,945
Erich Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
61,922
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
67,707
Frank Norris
McTeague
112,737
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment
211,591
George Eliot
Middlemarch
316,059
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four
88,942
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
99,121
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
166,622
Henry David Thoreau
Walden
114,634
Honore de Balzac
Pere Goriot
87,846
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
73,404
James Fenimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans
145,469
Jane Austen
Persuasion
87,978
John Knowles
A Separate Peace
56,787
John Steinback
The Grapes of Wrath
169,481
John Steinback
East of Eden
225,395
Joseph Heller
Catch-22
174,269
Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
49,459
Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House
99,560
Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
587,287
Margaret Atwood
Alias Grace
157,665
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huck Finn
109,571
Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi
127,776
Maxine Hong Kingston
Woman Warrior
70,957
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
85,199
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter
63,604
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
78,462
Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451
46,118
Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
64,768
Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
92,400
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
63,422
William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying
56,695
William Golding
Lord of the Flies
59,900
 I’m sorry my story
yesterday had 1,882 words in
it.


I’ll try to do better. 

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