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Originally Posted by Geralt
I look at it differently. Some stories are short, some are long. It doesn't matter if it's 200 page book or a 1000 page book. What matters is that you have a good story and an effort on the writers part not to cut it down or fluff it up. But honestly, there is so much more of the fluffing going on in the genre I read (fantasy) than cutting things down.
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Here is a historical fact for you, what you are talking about was most common about the time Moby Dick was written. In those days authors were paid based on the number of pages that they wrote so authors tended to write very long winded novels. I may be wrong, however I believe that this is not so these days, an author, I believe, gets paid based on how well his/her works sells to the public rather than the number of pages.