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sharkneto · 16 days ago

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Like, to warrant a length like that, you have to be doing something with it. Crime and Punishment is allowed because the 450+ pages of Raskolnikov's self-inflicted mental anguish punishment is the Point. Lonesome Dove is allowed because the length and tedium of the trail is one of its Points. It takes commitment and mental fortitude to read and stay engaged with a book that long, so if you are not using all that time for a Point, for your Pacing to be doing a Thing, for a Reason, then you probably should edit and streamline, kill a darling or two, and your book will be better for it

W*nd and Tr*th really cementing my opinion that very rarely does a book need to be more than 600 pages, and doubly so for over a 1000

#all of the st*rmlight arch*ve suffers from bloat #even wok - which is one of the best books I've ever read - could have been a couple hundred pages shorter and better for it #and its just gotten more and more bloated as the series has gone on #as we add more and more characters and the plot complicates #tbf the scale of the plot expanded beyond what im personally interested in after book 2 #i'm still reading because i like characters and i read them with some friends #but we dont have to have pov from all... what are we at? 10? more? characters #theres like 7 or 8 distinct plots happening that i have to assume will tie into the big bombastic conclusion at the end #but in the meantime i have to keep track of them all #but what's really frustrating me is how this fucks the pacing #we're supposed to be feeling a time crunch #only 10 days until the meeting of champions to decide the fate of everything!!!#but because we have so many people doing so many different things #it takes 100 pages to get through each day #it kills the urgency #it only works for the adolin chapters because he has to hold a chokepoint for that week with too few men #so that is a slog for him and his men #the rest tho???? i should be panicked i should be stressed about if they can do their million side quests in time #but instead it feels we've got all the time in the world and we're only in a hurry because the characters keep telling me they are #brando could use some more people saying No around him imo when editing time came for his books #book club #sorry if anyone else is reading this book and my little frustrated hater rant finds you #it seems I'm once again a minority for my frustrations so just ignore me and continue your enjoyment!! im but one random dude on th internet

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