Do long books put you off reading?

[Bighuey]

I liked Kings earlier books, like Christine and The Shining and The Dead Zone, in fact Christine was one of the best books I have ever read. But some of his later books rambled on too much, its as if he was getting paid by the word. Another one of my favorite authors, Algernon Blackwood, had that same fault in a lot of his stories. He was too wordy.

[Teesie]

I love long books, especialy series'.

[Bighuey]

About the only series I ever got into was the original Star Trek books by James Blish and the Lensman series by E.E. Smith.

[Envy]

Ugh, well, the length doesn't necessarily put me off as much as the book's reason for being that length. Why does a book need to be that many pages? Only exception is House of Leaves because Danielewski's a genius, and NOBODY can say otherwise >:O

[TheMadHatter]

It wouldn't put me off, but it would make me postpone reading it until I get through my shorter books.

[Bighuey]

Im the same way, I have many long books I really want to read but I cant seem to start them as I have many shorter books I read first.

[Margarita]

when you have kids, you buy more magazines...
for they are easy,short and don't kill many brain cells

[Bighuey]

Magazines are good to read, about the only ones I get are the AARP magazine and assorted junk catalogues but they make fast reading.

[Splinter]

Generally, books with much more than 250 pages are too much for me

[patrickt]

I don't mind long books and avoid very short books. I would say the longer a book is the better the writing will have to be to hold my interest.

I've started Joyce's "Ulysses" but I've never finished. I've considered breaking it into fifty page chunks and reading it backwards.

[Eleganthedgehog]

All I have to say is "Atlas Shrugged".

It is only good for a doorstop.

[Fran]

All I have to say is "Atlas Shrugged".

It is only good for a doorstop.

I loved that book even if it is anything but a 'light' read

[Bighuey]

I startred to read Ben-Hur once but kept falling asleep. I didnt get very far into it and gave it up. Thats a rare case where the movie was better than the book. Lew Wallace wrote it when he was govenor of New Mexico Territory and he should have given more attention in dealing with Billy the Kid than trying to write a dull book.

[Fran]

I startred to read Ben-Hur once but kept falling asleep. I didnt get very far into it and gave it up. Thats a rare case where the movie was better than the book. Lew Wallace wrote it when he was govenor of New Mexico Territory and he should have given more attention in dealing with Billy the Kid than trying to write a dull book.

That's the movie with Charlton Heston right & the brilliant chariot races?
I heard recently that there were homosexual overtones in that movie but all I remember were the chariot races ... better than any western!

[Bighuey]

@ Fran, that was the movie. The chariot races were impressive. There was a silent version of it that came out in the 1920's, even that one was pretty good. I dont recall anything homosexual in it, I think some of those critics look for things that are not there.