Do you shy away from long books?

Time is an issue for me so I do tend to stay away from them when I am studying but during the holidays it doesn't bother me.

Time is also an issue for me, but I do notice that when I go on vacation, I usually find a long book to read as I have more time to devote to it. Not to mention only having to taking one book with me.

Never. In fact, the longer a book is, the more I enjoy it.

I always look for good books in our college library and some of them are thick ones. I must admit that I shy away from them, especially if I'm busy at the moment. But I did borrow "Dream of the Red Mansions" last year and finished it. It's got 120 chapters in 3 volumes of 40 each. I'm looking forward to reading Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu" soon. (That is, if I get to find a copy here in my country.)

I tend to shy away from small print more, but this often goes hand in hand with the thick classics.

I love the longer novels; however I'm in the 500s of Bleak Houses' 800+ and am finding it a little wordy at parts. I read Gone with the Wind at 18 yrs and thought it ended too soon. not the fastest reader, but I do feel gyped if I finish a novel too soon. Loved Dostoyevski, esp the brothers K.

When I was younger and a student, absolutely...

Now that I'm back into reading literature @50(ish) I find myself reactive to our too fast-everything lives. So I try to stake-out my time, be more selfish/contrarian. I find I LOVE long books now. After Proust's In Search of Lost Time's 4300 pages, length is relative. All 19th century novels now look slim to me..;) The amount of time it takes me to read certain works is only sometimes related to their word count or page length. Beckett's 240 page novel Watt took me much longer than any Dickens I have read...

(BTW, my earlier post was meant to be ironic, and I apologize if the "longer works have more words" pun was taken personally..

Current read: Gargantua & Pantagruel by Rabelais (slim little 1000 pager :D)

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