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I used to seek out longer books, but now I think it's possibly the opposite. I wonder if, with paperbacks, there was a trend to ever-increasing size to try to justify the ever-increasing price. I certainly liked to feel I was getting value for money - getting a lot of entertainment for my buck - when I had greater constraints on the amounts of space and money I could devote to books.
With ebooks, the size is kind of irrelevant, almost invisible. I wonder if people will be able to write short books again, even though it's actually much more convenient to read long works on an ereader.
When I'm looking for classic crime fiction in second-hand bookshops, I look for the thin books.
I don't usually tend to find big thick fantasy novels too difficult to read, though. They seem to get up to a high pace, and carry you along fairly easily. I tend to think of the books that really intimidate me as being dense, rather than merely long. This seems to be feature of the style and the pacing. If suspense is maintained, then the book can fly by, but if the story broken up into distinct sections, or whatever, then it can feel very slow.
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