In article <UfSdnUhl2f_P-oXVnZ2dnUVZ_q2hnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Paul Howard" <ppaulshoward@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "David DeLaney" <dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:slrng1goni.nqn.dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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
> > --
> > \/David DeLaney posting from dbd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"It's not the pot that grows
the
> > flower
> > It's not the clock that slows the hour The definition's plain for
anyone
> > to see
> > Love is all it takes to make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE HAPPYNET
> > VRbeable<BLINK>
> > http://www.vic.com/~dbd/
- net.legends FAQ & Magic / I WUV you in all
> > CAPS! --K.
>
> 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/
I have heard that he has finished the 3rd title, _By Heresies
Distressed_.
--
Robert Woodward <robertaw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
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