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View Poll Results: Do you like long or short novels? | |||
Really Short (less than 60K words) | 3 | 2.19% | |
Short about 80K is right | 7 | 5.11% | |
Medium (somewhere 'tween 80-120K) is perfect | 16 | 11.68% | |
Long (give it to me baby. Stephen King is my idol) | 62 | 45.26% | |
Don't care | 49 | 35.77% | |
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09-20-2010, 11:16 AM | #61 |
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Shogun was a long read....
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09-20-2010, 01:06 PM | #62 |
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09-20-2010, 01:19 PM | #63 | |
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(I have read and enjoyed a few doorstoppers such as LOTR, but they are exceptions that I read when much younger. Time is even more critical to me now and I do check the number of locations. I simply don't want a book that is too long for my time allotment.) |
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09-21-2010, 03:16 AM | #64 |
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I'm all about the drama. I prefer long because there is more room to describe the characters so I can have a personal love hate relationship with them. Haha.
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09-22-2010, 02:39 AM | #65 |
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I'd like a novel to continue as long as it can entertain me. As soon as it stops being entertaining it can end That's why I like sequels and series where each individual book as a proper story; I can stop after any individual book.
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09-24-2010, 12:41 PM | #66 |
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One of the advantages of my e-reader, is:
a Vely Long Novel is just as light as a 2 Stanza poem |
09-24-2010, 01:31 PM | #67 | |
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09-24-2010, 02:56 PM | #68 |
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If the story has me tied to my seat, then it should be long. I have read good novels that were short, of course. However I like to read about the lives of people, fictional or otherwise, and most lives last a bit longer than 2 days
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09-24-2010, 05:19 PM | #69 |
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Would any authors out there care to comment on whether they find it easier to write long or or short fiction?
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09-24-2010, 06:04 PM | #70 |
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If a book is good I don't care how long it is. Some days I like to read short novels (about 200 pages) but other times I love a long one. I'm talking 600-1000 pages for a long one.
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09-24-2010, 08:57 PM | #71 | |
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Now one could say that people in a bookstore are also people who are really into reading and I'd have to agree with you - the only other place I can think of is the bookstore at the airport that I regularly travel through. |
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