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He is also, to my mind, maybe the worst author to bring up defending extremely long books, considering even his fans usually acknowledge...

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The reason I got an eReader in the first place was the Wheel of Time series. Because back then I was still commuting to work and...

And they make those 1000 page tomes much more enjoyable because you only have the weight of your e-reader!

Tastes vary, and that's okay. There are plenty of books that left me wanting more, but to my mind that feeling is okay. When I was a...

I have literally never felt like I wanted any book to be shorter...? Whereas I am frequently left wanting more. Sometimes from the...

I definitely prefer shorter works to longer. Not that I don't think the world of certain long-form works. But for me, a book really...

I cannot imagine such a life. You must be blessed to never be confronted with persons - writers or not - who are babbling on and on...

Precisely so. Thieves World presents a squalid, gritty world with troubled, morally conflicted protagonists. Xanth presents as a...

The problematic elements of Xanth, IMO, are that Piers Anthony is talking to an intended audience of kids with ideas that start with...

It's funny, Thieves World has more mature content, but despite having read both it and the Xanth series around the age of 9-10, I feel...

Hoo boy . . . yes, parenting in the 80s was a combo of parents not keeping up with societal changes and also being more "hands off" . ...

Unfortunately true. I also get the feeling that there wasn't a lot of oversight (at least, not from my parents) as to what was behind...

Sci-fi and fantasy literature in the 80s was marginalized. For instance, there was a lot of splash in the Waldenbooks I frequented, but...