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⌈ Secret Post #2923 ⌋

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I've discovered I just have way less patience for longass bookslabs in general. Back in the day, 300 pages was nothing, and now I'm like, "you shitting me? I could red pen out a hundred of these, it's just more meaningless questing, COME ON."

Yeah that's part of why I stopped reading Stephen King, though I'm (little by little) regaining my ability to read books and get through them, and I intend to tackle House of Leaves again because that's about the only bookslab I want to tackle anymore.

Oh man, House of Leaves. I need to try that, it's just... intimidating.

I presume the Dark Tower or the Stand did you in?

I read through The Stand about 5 times, but no it was the Dark Tower. I gave up.

I don't blame you. I tried the Dark Tower, at the behest of my friends who swore I'd love it. I... made it a little through the first book, and oh man, I had a hard time breaking in.

I seem to enjoy King the best when he's NOT writing horror.

I love the first book, but all subsequent books have been harder and harder to do. I think I've gotten through book 4 maybe once.

Yeah, not gonna lie, I'm a speed-reader and even I am intimidated by the size of those suckers.

(This is also why I don't read manga much, honestly. The idea of being invested and buying for 20 volumes is just not in my nature.)

It's probably gonna take me a couple years to get all the volumes of Batman: No Man's Land. I can read it as a CBR easy enough, but holy christables the books are EXPENSIVE

I knoooooow, it sucks. It's actually another reason I've kinda been staying out of the Big Two; I know that once I get sucked back in, I'll never be able to keep up with the books, and that's a lot of money. Indy comics, at least, tend to update a bit slower, and black and white ones especially are cheaper. (Still can't get over that I was able to buy the whole B&W run of Zot! for like twenty-five bucks. That's like five hundred pages!)

But then again, Empowered is the only comic I've been able to keep up with since 2008, so you know.

If it weren't for the MTCDC series of torrents I'd never have gotten into DC at all. And if it weren't for kat.ph I wouldn't be able to catch up and keep up with The New 52.

Actually buying comics? Call me when they're not like 5 fucking dollars for 20 pages.

I quit DC after the New 52. With Ted Kord erased from history, Amanda Waller stripped of everything I liked about her, and Booster apparently now an old vet... I mean, I just lost my motivation for the publisher.

Yeah, the cost is killer. I mean, I'm used to coughing up a bit for my little creator friends, but that's because they're running the business out of their basement. Seriously, if Marvel or DC made comics that cut down on the color or got rid of it entirely, and sold it for cheaper, I would be all over that. To think comics once cost a nickel... *sigh*

Ted Kord is back (sort of.) The Booster we all know and love never really left either, but he's been busy behind the scenes.

The New 52 has otherwise redeemed itself with Forever Evil, which made slogging through the previous two years worth the trouble and I really like where things are going now. Something big is going down this year and I have a strong suspicion it's another Crisis. It won't be a reboot, or a reversion to the old continuity, but I'm putting money on them deliberately pulling more elements from the old continuity forward and taking off the New 52 label on all the comics.

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It's funny, 'cause I feel like the opposite happened to me - I appreciate long books that I can settle down and enjoy way more than I used to, and I've grown beyond picky about plotting.

I have grown downright SNARKY about plotting. I blame it on a childhood of Mary Brown and Piers Anthony; those folks could not plot their way out of a paper bag, I swear to god.

That said, I DO enjoy long books, when they aren't freakin' obstacle course plots. Rot and Ruin went by pretty fast for me, and I've been chowing on tons of longer nonfiction!

Oh god Piers Anthony.

tbh I think that at heart I'm still a fiction fan, and probably will be for a while yet. But I just plowed through a Brandon Sanderson book and had a jolly good time. Obviously not all plots are good plots, and not all long books have good plots, but so many fics have no plot at all. Drives me nuts.

Yeah, Anthony is my one childhood shame. All the other favorite authors actually turned out to be pretty good--I still have all my old Bruce Coville and Roald Dahl!

I can't comment on the fic, since I basically only read short fluff and porn--when I read at all, these days, lately I've been wandering away from it. I'm everything wrong with the fic reader of today. *snrk*

Yeah, I've grown to love long books. I want to have forgotten that other books exist when I'm done with a book, LOL.

I've grown beyond picky about plotting

THIS.
And not just about plot, but also about writing style, characterisation and the way controversial (sexual/social etc.) themes are treated. I've read some wonderful fanfiction in these last years - veritable books with a level of insight and passion I seldom find in published books - and that has ruined me forever, lol.
That said, I've always loved long books and still do. If anything, good fanfiction made me love short writings, like drabbles and flashfics.

haha, I guess I kind of meant the opposite from you. I'm glad you found great fics, but the more fic I read the more I appreciate sitting down to a long book that's got actual plot, actual development, and won't squander everything in 9837067 sex scenes.
Not to say there aren't lousy books - but even among the high wordcount fics, it's so rare that I find something that actually satisfies my plotting demands.

I'm just baffled at the idea that 300 pages is considered a long book. To me, that seems on the shorter side of average, unless you're reading YA or kidlit.

Ahhhh, those halcyon days before Harry Potter, when 300 pages was considered a lot and nobody thought children would willingly read more...

For me, it was being burned out on all the 400+ page novels I had to read for English classes in college. Nowadays the only way I can get through a book that long is by breaking it up into tiny chunks, preferably during reading in bed to help me fall asleep.

Had the same reaction. Most of the books I read are at least 600 pages, and a fair amount either come close to or cross the 1000 page line.

Same, I sneeze through 300 pages (and if it's a chore reading those 300 pages why would I bother reading the book?)

I probably agree with you, if I could recall just how thick 300 pages is. I do know I borrowed some of my brother's thick sci-fi novels when I was 11 - that was straight from kid's picture books into sci-fi and fantasy bricks.

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