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Old 04-10-2013, 10:28 AM   #252
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Originally Posted by jbcohen View Post
Don't typically care that much for short stories and novellas and such I do not feel that an author can do justice to a tale in that small a number of pages. An author needs to take his/her time to develop the story line and the characters. Personal opinion only.
Depends on the story. Arthur C. Clarke was an absolute master of the ultra-short story, with a couple of his most memorable being only one or two pages.

Don't get me wrong; I like big books, too - Stephen King's It is one of my favorites, and clocks in at 1138 pages as originally printed. But that's a five-course banquet, and sometimes all you want is a gumdrop...
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