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Originally Posted by Luffy
Before getting my kindle, I tried to read The Shining on my desktop, but even if I liked the book, I had to abandon it, because of the discomfort. That said the major Stephen King books that provoke the most reaction are the Dark Tower series. Harry Potter himself appears in one or more books. I wouldn't know, I only read the 1st three books. Hearing what occurs in the last ones is what deterred me from completing this series.
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I meant the series by J.K. Rowling. If there is a character by that name in one or more of Steven King's books I was unaware of it. There was a character named Harry Potter Jr. in the movie "Troll" though.
A lot of the really long 500 + page books that are out there are the old classics. They had to be long for several reasons. 1st there were no pictures of real world settings which is why in books like Ben-Hur for example have long passages of description present. Also there was less variety for entertainment back then. And of course writers didn't make a lot of $ often making it by the word so that they were encouraged to write long rather than the short, quick writing we know today. Some of the PD books were in fact serialized in newspapers before being set up in book form. If you have to write 2,000 words a week for a newspaper and you try to keep the storyline going for as long as possible you get a fairly long manuscript after a while. 2k * 25 weeks = 50k words in 6.25 months. Which isn't to say there aren't still some long books today certainly. The Wheel of Time series has some fairly thick books.