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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 6105697" data-attributes="member: 22779">It's funny.  When I was younger, I loved door stopper fantasy.  LotR, David Eddings, you name it.  The longer the book, the better.  Now, I read almost exclusively shorter fiction.  I do read the odd novel, but, largely, it's short stories or even flash fiction.  And that has really reflected my approach to gaming as well.  Not that you don't get setting in short fiction, but, by and large, setting elements and extraneous details get left on the cutting room floor.I finally got around to reading the Game of Thrones books.  I know that whenever Martin starts detailing feasts, my eyes glaze over and I skip down the page.  That boy REALLY loves food.  Same with all the family history stuff of characters that you meet once and then they die a few chapters later.  Yeah, I really, really don't care about heraldry.Cracking good story.  But, personally, I would love it even more if it was about half as long.</blockquote>