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by SirFatty
42 days ago
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"I wanted to find something to read, and finish, in one or two evenings. Over the years, I grew a slight disgust for ultra-long forms that drag on like soap operas, no matter how epic or interesting." They seem like a prime candidate for Gilligan's Island reruns on MeTV. |
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Even Dickens, who was often paid by the word, would be appalled at the length of some books today, not to mention the epic cycles like Wheel of Time, that go on forever and in which the author carefully doles out plot points