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Originally Posted by tompe
No, it is not. The story is not mapped linearly to the page number.
But if you have not noticed that stories of different length are usually structured differently then I do not know what to say since I find that so absurd.
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Oh, I've
noticed, when I deign to bother. But that metric isn't even
remotely relevant to my enjoyment of a novel. All that is relevant is whether I get absorbed enough to imagine myself in that world.
If the author concentrates upon words or sentence, paragraph and chapter structure which inhibits my ability to 'transcend the page', then I won't bother finishing the story and I won't bother buying another book from the author. Any author that forces me to be more concerned over his technique, his mechanics, his 'Wow! Look at me forcing a new "style"!' is an author who doesn't really write fiction.
Derek