"David DeLaney" <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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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The last I heard, there going to be at least three additional books
following OAR. David Weber has a Big Story here and he hasn't hidden the
fact that it'll take several books to tell.
The sequel to OAR (BY SCHISM RENT ASUNDER) is currently being snippeted on
Baen's Bar and at http://www.ericflint.net/
--
Paul Howard (Alias Drak Bibliophile)
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