Re: The length of a novel
Steve Hayes <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jun 2022 15:04:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 31 May 2022 23:37:52 +1000, Peter Moylan wrote: > The problem there is even worse than in SF. The thick-book authors just > ramble on without getting anywhere. I managed 1 1/2 of George R.R. Martin's "Ice & Fire" thing, and gave up. I started treading the second to find what had happened to an interesting character in the first volume, but decided it wasn't worth wading through endless pages of political sleaze to find out. The real thing is bad enough, one doesn't need to read it in fiction. -- Steve Hayes http://khanya.wordpress.com