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Originally Posted by fjtorres
It's a lifelong problem, alas.
I'm not picky on length. (Two of my all-time faves are barely novellas--BURROUGHS' THE RIDER and BRADLEY'S SPELL SWORD--but big ones like MOTE IN GOD'S EYE and most of the Honorverse saga are high in the list, too.)
When I was introduced to Tolkien at 17 I read the whole set twice, back to back...in one week. Shortly afterwards I read the 25 volume Tarzan series. Took me a month cause classes had started. Drove my roommates nuts. Although, truthfully, they were nuts to start with. One of them dreamed Tolkien.
Woke us up ranting "Gandalf can't be dead!"  |
I'm not picky about length, it is just that I'm not happy if a book ahead is mere 250-300 pages. It is a snack. 500 is decent average, 600-700 is all right. Anyting above is a feast (except Under the Dome by Stephen King, oh how I suffered!) Last year I started page count as my average book was 450 to 500 pages, some 800, so book count didn't exactly correspond to the amount I read. But couldn't be bothered to sum it up in the end. I don't read novellas or short stories and wouldn't add them to the count if I did. And as for a break in between I just like to think the story over and still be for a while in that particular world, not jump into another reality immediately.
I remember it was long before ereaders, I borrowed LOTR vol.1 from local library, read it and when I wanted to borrow vol.2 they were all out! Oh!!! I angrily stormed into a bookstore and bought all 3 volumes. Still have them.
And by the way me and Proust don't get well together.