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10 months agoI think you are misunderstanding.
These books were the weekly TV series of their day.
Published in magazines one chapter at a time
Each chapter ends on a cliff hanger leaving you desperate for the next episode.
So just as people enjoy binge watching, these novels should also be fun.
Thats not to say all long books are fun, but Dickens and Dumas and…? should keep you entertained
GIF is pronounced both ways and there have been wars fought over the pronunciation https://time.com/5791028/how-to-pronounce-gif/
I am currently listening to Babel by RF Kuang. This is set in Oxford university and they seem to mispronounce all the famous names (eg Bodleian is pronounced boadleian instead of with a hard o)