In Defense of Really Long Books

Spencer Ellsworth
Nov 3 · 3 min read

Not too long ago, I bought Alan Moore’s Jerusalem off the shelf at Powell’s. It was on sale… which is to, say, under 30$… and as I smiled at the cashier and hefted all 1200 pages of it, dropped it into my backpack and then realized I couldn’t get the backpack on.

Kidding.

Mostly.

It was a long walk to the train station from the bookstore, I’ll say that.

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Spencer Ellsworth

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Guy with opinions! Author of A RED PEACE from Tor, and THE GREAT FAERIE STRIKE from Broken Eye Books. Space bugs and faerie unions; check em out.

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