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@cseresz
Karcsi, azért ne feledd, te is rendszeresen rámutattál (legutóbb talán 2-3 hónapja), beszéltünk is róla sokszor, hogy például a WoT 4. könyve hardcoverben 700 oldalas (a betûmérete is megfelelõ), tehát bõven játszhatnának a kiadók (3:5:8 arányt nem kell, nem is szokták mindig betartani).
I look for more than quality prose in a book. I look for character development. I look for atmosphere. I look for plot advancement. And I look for these things to be done concisely (being concise: The most underrated virtue in epic fantasy). Because when books are not concise, they become tedious. If you can write Dany's arc in this book in five meaty, well paced chapters, then that is infinitely better than writing it in ten chapters padded with filler and tedious repetition, even if the prose itself is fine.
It's all well and good to say that more=better, but pretty much every epic fantasy series I've read has proven that this is not true. There was no need for Malazan to be ten 1,000 page long books, the last five of which each could have benefitted from losing 250-500 pages each. There's no reason Wheel of Time had to be anywhere near fourteen books. Because of the slow pace of AFFC and ADWD and lack of meaningful plot progression (due to the general lack of resolution), along with the current gigantic POV cast, there is now probably a need for this series to go to eight books, but if he had done things differently, we might have only needed seven. And IMO, seven tight, concise, well written books are better than three tight, concise, well written books and five to six padded, well written ones.
Edit: I also believe that at a certain point, stories need to end. There are very few stories worthy of ten 1,000 page books. I have yet to find one, actually. I'm not sure if any story is so intrinsically good that it deserves that much space.