Would you rather read ten short novels or a single, huge epic?

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Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

Today's novels mostly range in size from 350 to 600 pages. Those are plenty big enough.

Then you get a group like the Millennium Trilogy where the story continues from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, though The Girl Who Played With Fire, to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. It's a continuous story through the three volumes and is riveting.

They're about 700 or 800 pages each and I read them in record time. (A fourth story, The Girl in the Spider's Web was added and is, perhaps, better than the first three, but is a stand-alone novel that borrows on the trilogy but is not part of them).

So yeah, I like single novels very much, and I like long, well-constructed stories that cover so much more territory, but I just can't get into short stories. (They're fun to write but not as rewarding to read.)

Jann Nikka Profile
Jann Nikka answered

Short.

Rooster Cogburn Profile
Rooster Cogburn , Rooster Cogburn, answered

I get tired of short stories and short novels. Give me the big Epic ! Much more enjoyable to read !

Janis Haskell Profile
Janis Haskell answered

I like long novels.  If it's really good, I get attached to the characters and hate to see the story end.  I'm delighted when I find a good series with multiple volumes :)

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

I read The Godfather and The Stand from start to finish.  (Yep, up all night.)

My ADHD would probably not let me sit still long enough to repeat such feats at present, so give me a few "O'Henry" type short stories.

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