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Originally Posted by Waylander
[...] It seems to be that most new fantasy authors just write huge, great fat bloated doorstop books, and take forever to get the story going.
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I agree... the one thing I often see is that a story starts out with a company that splits up into three or four smaller groups quite early, just to be able to write three or four books, one about each part. Some parts of the books really feel like filler and padding without contributing anything to the actual story. Therefore I'll be reading less fantasy in 2014.
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It seems that most of the time quality seems to have been sacrificed for quantity.
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Yes, maybe so.
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I'm not saying these books are bad, its just that a lot of fantasy books seem to be too long, and seem to be of lower quality. My favourite author, David Gemmell, did not write huge doorstop books his whole writing career, and his only books to pass the 600 page mark were his Troy books. He proves that you don't need over 700 pages to tell a good story.
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I recently picked up the first three books of the Drenai series (in chronological order), just because they weren't too long, and I expect them to be quick reads in the fashion of the Forgotten Reamls fantasy. I've already wondered if your username "Waylander" had something to do with those books. It seems it does
Still, I will be reading less fantasy in 2014, but there will be some (very) long books of over 1200 pages, notably Musashi (re-read), Taiko (first read), and Tai-Pan (first read).
I hope Taiko and Tai-Pan are as good as Musashi and Shogun were.