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I think I tend toward longer (fatter?) novels because I'm hoping for a really engrossing and complicated saga. Shogun comes to mind. Huge novel and loved it all. However, this does not mean I get a brilliantly executed saga every time. I've read some fat books that could have had 300 pages edited out of them and really benefitted from it. But I've read big novels that were great the whole way through and I wouldn't have traded a page for anything.
This does not mean that I dislike shorter novels. If a story is well told regardless of length, that's good. It's when a small book seems to be lacking or a big book is padded that the disappointment sets in.
I'm not sure if the ebook medium will affect novel size. They've always come in all different sizes and I suppose they will continue to do so. E-publishing certainly makes it more affordable to produce a big novel.
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