ext_12512: Hinoe from Natsume Yuujinchou, elegant and smirky (Default)
Smilla's Sense of Snark ([identity profile] smillaraaq.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] meganbmoore 2008-02-08 01:35 am (UTC)

Ah, I know you read at least a few paranormals so I didn't want to presume.

Here's the cover art for ACTW, does that look familiar?

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GRRM is...well, I'm largely attached to it for the characters, and the moral message/life of the world, but it also does an extremely good job of making "huge and epic" actually feel huge and epic, instead of tust a thick book.

That is another excellent selling point in its favor. I have no problem with loooooong books when the length is necessary to tell the story properly, but I hate hate hate books that just seem to be full of unnecessary padding to the point where a proper editor would have to trade the red pencil for a chainsaw.

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