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Old 10-16-2004, 07:15 AM   #1
Colin Dunstan
Is papyrophobic!
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Rant: Are Books Too Long?

This guy is arguing that many books are just way too long. To support his critique he mentions:

- Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time
- Tad Williams’ Otherland
- Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
- Rowland's Harry Potter
- Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle

These are all books I personally love! (Well except for Wheel of Time that I eventually stopped reading.) Is this guy insane? What about character development? What about the pure joy of knowing that there is just another novel building on top of a wonderful story? What is wrong about a long book if it is well written and not boring? Perhaps this guy should go back to Kindergarten and read Mickey Mouse books for a change.
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