>From: Mario Taboada <
matrxtech@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: re: various film posts and
the Ice Harvest
<<On the other hand, J.K. Rowling can write a 700+ page
children's book where nothing is extraneous and everything
works perfectly [and sell a hundred gajillion
copies].>>
If you are referring to the philosopher's stone book
(forget the exact title), I beg to differ. About 150 pages go
by and Harry Potter hasn't even gotten to his school.
before we veer totally OT into a debate on the merits of a
certain bespectacled one, my only point was that a very long
book isn't necessarily inflated - I'm actually referring to
book 4, the very long one, which I found a lot tighter than
book 1, to which Mario is referring. I only brought it up
because a lot of people automatically starting grousing when
the book came out that because it was so long the editors
obviously weren't doing their job. I often have this reaction
to long books in any genre, but that isn't always a fair
criticism.
giving the list back to the Muggles now, Carrie
*****************
"When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was
drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball
Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma,
California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring
afternoon."
-James Crumley, "The Last Good Kiss"
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