Caoilin
Title: Instigator
Posts:
56,728
Registered:
Nov 20, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 54,027
User ID: 513,313
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
like i agree with everyone that said the kitty norville series was good. i didn't really like the first book at all. but the second was a fun read and the 3rd i loved. problem is, i can read this in less than a day.  and they're like $7 each so i'm like ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu i'm scared to get into another series like this that has short ass books that are the same price as longer books that take me more than a day to go through.
-----signature-----
"Cao is really an asexual cricket from outer space" - Bernion
"I just wish you had man bits" - ShalisR
"i'll be your dirty ignorant redneck if you will be my drugged out cripple bitch" - shaggynuts24
"again, I'm stupid" - Brandun
|
|
Link to this post
|
Yossarian_42
Title: RUSH > ALL
Posts:
43,073
Registered:
Feb 28, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 40,466
User ID: 651,769
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
I have been malcontent with the length of a few good UF authors for a while. Carrie Vaughn, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Charlaine Harris, etc. all write these books that come in under 300 pages; that is pushing the limits of decorum.
On one hand the books are good, in part, because they are short. They get in, tell their story and then get out. But on the other hand I'm paying $8 for half a novel.
-----signature-----
If I have burnt my bridges I will walk on water.
If you're on the shore, then you're sure not me, oh
My seething wrath and urge for blood is fueled by searing hate.
I'm X X X bitch, triple X rated.
|
|
Link to this post
|
Caoilin
Title: Instigator
Posts:
56,728
Registered:
Nov 20, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 54,027
User ID: 513,313
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
|
that's exactly how i feel right now. i don't begrudge them their money. they definitely earned it and $8 isn't a lot. but reading more than 1 book a day and paying $8 sometimes twice a day is wearing on me. i wish i could rent them or something. it's tempting to just download them. i have $100 in gift cards for amazon. i might start buying from them and converting them for my nook. they always hold up really well with links and stuff when you do that. with my luck though, they'd be in goddamn topaz and i wouldn't be able to. i might do that when i'm done with this and start on the hollows books. bulk buy, convert and have 'em all ready for 11 days of reading.
-----signature-----
"Cao is really an asexual cricket from outer space" - Bernion
"I just wish you had man bits" - ShalisR
"i'll be your dirty ignorant redneck if you will be my drugged out cripple bitch" - shaggynuts24
"again, I'm stupid" - Brandun
|
|
Link to this post
|
Walker_ID
Posts:
24,809
Registered:
May 29, '02
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 23,164
User ID: 683,720
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
agreed....even digital books cost far too much...especially considering the nonexistent overhead in comparison to printed books...
give me a 700+ page book or gtfo!
-----signature-----
You can't outrun Darwin
|
|
Link to this post
|
purplehugmonkey
Posts:
12,787
Registered:
May 16, '05
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 12,662
User ID: 1,049,746
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
Yeah, that's how those stupid Jim Butcher ones are too.
$10 a pop and they're gone in an(admittedly enjoyable) afternoon.
-----signature-----
College women are as unstable as free radicals. Thanks college.
-Anebriated
He was a jedi before he was a father and everyone knows how much jedi love to chop off hands.
-Kigaro
|
|
Link to this post
|
poenadare
Posts:
3,423
Registered:
Nov 5, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 3,373
User ID: 494,520
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
Cryptonomicon was a good meaty three day read for me. But the Baroque Cycle was just too dense for me. Go figure.
It's been years since I've been held captive by a giant thick book. 
-----signature-----
What kind of god would admit to creating us?
-- Pyrrho the Skeptic
|
|
Link to this post
|
Ravynmagi
Title: Moderator
Posts:
29,978
Registered:
Dec 23, '01
Extended Info (if available)
Real Post Cnt: 29,452
User ID: 572,278
|
Subject:
short good books are pissing me off
|
Bought The Night Circus in e-book and just realized it's only 387 pages.
Just saw my Kindle progress bar and, "Oh crap, I'm that far through already?"
Wish it was longer.
-----signature-----
(none)
|
|
Link to this post
|
