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**Petwrenny** · 10-20-2008, 10:08 PM

This book was a lot of fun, a brilliant gothic page turner, in spite of the unavoidable cliches. I think one needs to read such novels from time to time. It made me feel like I was ten again.

I love a gothic page turner as much as the next man, and I certainly wouldn't want my own literary diet being nothing but highbrow literary fiction, but did you not think it was a bit long for its content?

My problem with it wasn't that it was a pageturner, I think that's a quality well worth appreciating on occasion and I do (I love Mickey Spillane for example), it was that it was huge but didn't really seem to need all the space it took. It felt a bit fat to me. Do you know what I mean at all, or did you not find that?

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Petwrenny Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	This book was a lot of fun, a brilliant gothic page turner, in spite of the unavoidable cliches. I think one needs to read such novels from time to time. It made me feel like I was ten again. I love a gothic page turner as much as the next man, and I certainly wouldn't want my own literary diet being nothing but highbrow literary fiction, but did you not think it was a bit long for its content? My problem with it wasn't that it was a pageturner, I think that's a quality well worth appreciating on occasion and I do (I love Mickey Spillane for example), it was that it was huge but didn't really seem to need all the space it took. It felt a bit fat to me. Do you know what I mean at all, or did you not find that?
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