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RWood · 10-20-2008, 10:55 AM

I like all lenghts of stories. I love a well crafted short story (I think they are harder to do well than a novel) and I will savor a good novel like a fine steak or bowl of New England Clam Chowder.

Many of the long books referenced here (and a lot more that are too bad to mention) seem to be in the class where the writer was paid by the word. I have read five page short stories that were six pages too long and thousand page novels that were far too short (ok, not too short but I would have been happy to read another thousand pages just as well crafted.)

10-20-2008, 10:55 AM	#25
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	I like all lenghts of stories. I love a well crafted short story (I think they are harder to do well than a novel) and I will savor a good novel like a fine steak or bowl of New England Clam Chowder. Many of the long books referenced here (and a lot more that are too bad to mention) seem to be in the class where the writer was paid by the word. I have read five page short stories that were six pages too long and thousand page novels that were far too short (ok, not too short but I would have been happy to read another thousand pages just as well crafted.)