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Title: Pulp Sci-Fi
Review: Readers who've been giving 4 or 5 stars to this book or others by Rand amaze me. No doubt a fair percentage of them watch the daytime soaps that run for 20+ years... Quantity doesn't mean quality. Another review stated that Rand kept going until she "ran out of ideas." NOT TRUE. A book should be as long as it needs to be without meandering. Lord of the Ring was three books (4 if you count The Hobbit) but every page meant something, served a purpose, moved the story forward. AS treads water. Was Rand paid by the page? Or by the word? Where ten words could suffice, Rand uses two hundred and fifty. I have just enough interest in these characters to keep me reading the book, but I don't need page-long descriptions of everyone's hair, breeches, chin, face, skirt, expression, cleavage, skin color, sweat, shoes, etc. NO ONE CARES. Perhaps Rand alone isn't to blame. We keep buying her books. And who the heck is the editor?
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