I’m enjoying Brent Weeks’ “The Black Prism” well enough, but that’s one hell of an unwieldy paperback to deal with, especially if you’re trying not to bend the poor thing in half at the back so you can see the whole page…
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These days, I’m reluctant to read anything that’s more than 400 pages. It’s just too big a commitment. I’m convinced this is the real reason for trilogies & such — to suck you in before you realize that you’ve got to read over 1000 pages to get the entire story.
Side note: I once started a series thinking it was a trilogy, only to discover that (a) the series wasn’t finished yet and (b) it was going to be FIVE lengthy books. I decided I didn’t want to know the ending that badly.
Big commitments don’t bother me. Hell, I’ve read and re-read the Belgariad & Malloreon over and over, and that’s ten books (if you don’t count the ancillary volumes). But break it down into smaller, more manageable pieces!
Peter F Hamilton is a monster. Not only does he do trilogies, but if I remember correctly, they’re 2k pages each.
Now, that’s just insane. The book in the comic is only 800 pages…
And this is why pretty much all the fiction I read is online these days.
Yes, the average quality goes down a lot (you get what you pay for), but hey – as a writer, you learn just as much from BAD writing as GOOD writing.
As long as you get enough good writing in your diet so you don’t end up as an unwitting Bulwer-Lytton winner… 🙂
Yet that still ends up being thousand page epics. I start reading Fallout Equestria, 20 rather long chapters… Much time later and it is among the world’s longest fictional works. Not even mentioning Project Horizons, which is longer. Somebody needs to do and official word count.