On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:02:03 +0100, Barb <black.cat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"In the past I've criticized certain authors for the extreme amounts of
>bloat present in their books. Most notably David Weber, who regularly
>padded 350 pages of plot into an 800 page novel...."
There's also the books where there's a nice thinner book struggling to get
out, but it's being smothered by unrelated plot-Velveeta and/or
exposition.
(Goodkind, I'm pointing at YOU.)
>Having said that, I enjoyed the book and recommend it as a good read
>(perhaps on a long-haul flight?), and there seems to be scope for a
sequel.
Scope? There's a whole half-acre of traps that have been set out carefully
in the early dawn just WAITING to catch the wily sequel, there. This is
one
of those sequels that's going to have to take extraordinary measures to
avoid
being written, and will likely end up at least a trilogy. Not that
there's,
you know, anything necessarily WRONG with that.
Dave
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