--- M Blumenthal <
blumenidiot@21stcentury.net> wrote:
> Maybe you can evaluate a series
> by examining the number
> of pages of a book as time passes. If Robert
Parker
> could write a very good
> book in under 200 pages in his early books why
does
> he need over 300 in his
> later ones?
It's just an educated guess, but I don't think Parker's books
are any longer than they used to be
(VALEDICTION and CATSKILL EAGLE asise). I think they're
typeset so as to appear longer. There's more white space in a
Parker hardcover than in anything else I read, that's for
sure. A word count would be a better measure, of course, but
I can't seem to pursuade myself that it's worth the
effort.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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