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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 1226296" data-attributes="member: 5100">Not to the exclusion of standalones, just in preferrence of them.  Also, I think Jordan's nine+ book ordeal is a bit long -- if it wasn't clear before, let it be so now. I think my reasons are these: 1) After 350 or so pages in the standard novel, assuming the novel really is quite good, I don't feel like I've gotten to spend enough time with the characters.  I want more.  This isn't a hard-and-fast rule.  It only applies to really good stories/characters.  As an example, I was plenty happy to be done with Zane (IIRC) after On a Pale Horse.  Lestat was fine after Queen of the Damned (although I never finished Interview because Louis is such a schmuck). On the other hand, I felt like I was just getting to know Rand after Eye of the World, Karl after The Sleeping Dragon, etc.  I wanted to see more of them.  And seeing more of them was a great experience -- one that was preferable to the others, not only because it was longer, but because the quality was better per page.  I don't want 15,000 pages of drek.  I'm not sure I want 15,000 pages of anything.  I just want characters that are interesting enough that I feel drawn to "meet them more than once". 2) I am an extremely fast reader.  I've slowed a bit in recent years (savoring more), but I used to read at about a page a minute.  That means that it didn't take me much longer to read Fellowship of the Ring than it did to watch the extended DVD (especially since I went into a skim mode with Bombadil -- ick). Maybe that means I have a lower comprehension than others (although experience tells me I'm about average -- now), and I don't get as much out of the novels.  Maybe not.  Regardless, I suspect that there is some relationship between how long it takes me and how long I want it to be.</blockquote>

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