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1) what's the longest time you've spent reading a book?
2) do you ever get put off by length?
3) what about complexity?
4) how long is too long?
5) Is there any hope of me making it through Tom Bombadil in this thing?


1) A week. As mentioned above Stephenson's Baroque Cycle took a long time - a month all in - but the Court of the Air was the worst I can remember. Took me a week, and it's not long at all.

2) Hell no. Just read and loved Justin Cronin's The Passage. It's approximately the size of the QEII.

3) I'm quite ADHD so I like some complex things but I'm easy to dazzle and confuse. I'll have a dash of complexity with my fiction, yeah. I don't really consider complexity when thinking about what I want to read, I judge based on what the plot is and whether it's had good reviews.

4) If it takes a rainforest, bad times.

5) I love everything else about those books (bar a few minor quibbles). Bombadil, though - Bombadil is so tiresome.
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