After plodding through a 2000+ pages long fantasy trilogy.
If anyone ever decides to write a fantasy novel, not very long, not a part of a cycle, not filled with heroes walking and talking about walking for so long, just a standalone purebred 300 pages long fantasy with a good story not diluted in pages and pages of nothing happening and real characters that bleed and feel pain when crashing through the window and a definite 'this is it' ending, well if anyone writes such book than let me know cause I'll miss it, buried under a pile of well established fantasy cycle writers populating Waterstone's shelves.
Yes, I still read fantasy trilogies, but I get weary sometimes halfway through.
A theory about hardcore fantasy readers - the genre suggests a well developed need for escapism, so probably they are so shy that when they eventually sneak out to top up on books, they are more than happy to get a brick-like cycle that will allow them not to leave the house for another month. And some authors happily provide more and more of such cycles.
Just to remind all the offended shy fantasy reades - I like to read it too, it's just that I got to the point when I treat any book with 'dragon ', 'mage', 'staff' or 'quest' in their title with suspicion. I don't want another ramblers guide through a land with
unpronouncable name with a group of stereotypical characters engaged in confusing sope-ish personal revelations pn a quest seeking magical staff guarded by a dragon, a 666 pages long book that will end in a cliffhanger, next part available in 2012...
If noone else is going to write a standalone purebred fantasy book soon - I will have to. Just to have something to read.
