Reactions to various posts. - The Thick & Thin of It.

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 143999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Bruce Alan Wilson"
<bawilson at c...> wrote:
> ....edited...
> 
> bboymin:
> "Next, JKR has a very terse compact writing style."
> 
> Bruce:
> *cough* Order of the Phoenix *cough* 870 pages *cough*
> 
> You obviously have a very different definition of 'terse'
> or 'compact' than I do.  When I think 'terse and compact 
> style,' I think first of Hemmingway; I can't think of any
> 20th or 21st C. author more UNlike Hemmingway than Rowling.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Bruce Wilson

bboyminn:

Point well taken, but... the measure of compactness is not the number
of pages contained between the covers, but the amount of story
contained therein.

I used that very book (OotP) as an example in my post.

The Dementor attack occurs on page 15, on page 57, Harry has reached
12 Grimmauld Place, by page 112, Harry is on his way to his Hearing at
the Ministry of Magic. 

Using the example of time between Harry's arrival and his hearing, on
superficial review that doesn't seem like much. Summarized, Harry is
at Grimmauld Place. But if you go back and read those roughly 50
pages, you will see that a great deal of story is contain in them.

While OotP may contain a massive 870 pages, the story contained in
those pages is filled with many plots, subplots, and sub-subplots. It
moves at an amazing pace; true, it doesn't move as fast as the
previous books, but it still covers a huge huge amount of story
telling in those 870 pages. 

My comment on was on JKR writing style, not the thickness of her books.

It's fine point.

Steve/bboyminn