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The Average Book Has 64,500 Words ›

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amandaonwriting:

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)

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Stars don’t fall for men. Red comet means one thing, boy… Dragons.

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Happy 33rd half birthday, Hazel.

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“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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Title: Rue's Whistle Song (Full Orchestra) - The Hunger Games Soundtrack 77,466 plays

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Rue’s Whistle Song (Full Orchestra) - The Hunger Games [x]

Will you please tell me you love me? I’m dying here.

Étienne St. Clair (Anna and the French Kiss)  (via oldmoriarty)

My brother couldn’t take it so there. He commented on it. Lol.

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