Summon the Thunder (Spoilers)

[Man of Steel]

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No and a good example of this is Dan Brown's Angel & Demons which costs $9.99. The books is also from Pocket just like Trek.

 

[KRAD]

Over a certain threshold, yes, page count affects cover price. Twilight was only able to cling to the regular mass-market cover price because the margins were tiny, the print was tiny, and the chapters ran through without page breaks, and even then, it was a near thing.

 

[Rat Boy]

The font was smaller? Good lord, then I better cancel that eye doctor's appointment I made when I finished it yesterday. I though I was losing my eyesight.

Actually, my fear going into this was that perhaps too much or too little of the Taurus Reach mystery would be revealed in Summon the Thunder, but I found what was discovered and what questions arose from it to be quite compelling. Also kudos to Wardmore for what appears to be tying the events of Vanguard into the backstory of a certain TOS episode hinted at in the epilogue.

 

[ronny]

off topic but we did get into the area of BIG books...

picked up FOUNDATION this morning and plan to have that read before i go to europe on the 9th and i've already decided on my plane books. i'm getting off my butt and finally getting to neal stephenson's barogue cycle. no one writes them bigger than stephenson.

 

[JD]

If you wanna see big books, look at Tom Clancy. I haven't read any of them, but I do know that at least some of his are 1000+ pages.

 

[Smiley]

In Clancy's case, bigger is not always better. Debt of Honor and Executive Orders were about the right length, but The Bear and the Dragon feels quite bloated. YMMV, of course.

 

[Dayton Ward]

^ There's also a pretty decent book buried somewhere in the bulk of Rainbow Six.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

A rule of thumb I discovered reading Clancy was that I could skip two out of every three chapters and get along just fine. Others suggest skipping three out of every four. Your mileage may vary.

 

[KRAD]

^ I, OTOH, couldn't get through The Hunt for Red October (which was irritating, since the movie's one of my favorites), and have found the best approach to be to skip Tom Clancy altogether.

 

[JD]

^At least I'm not the only one, I tried twice and both times I didn't even made it 100 pages.

 

[Procutus]

Elemental said:
^Don't feel bad. I'm only on page 91. This book has a much smaller font than the last one.

You really shouldn't feel bad; I just picked this up on Monday, and just started reading it last night. I'm glad to know that I'm in for a hell of a read.

regards,


Proc

 

[JD]

Yeah, you deffinitely are. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

 

[Man of Steel]

What's the font of STT and it's size?

 

[Procutus]

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I'm not sure of the exact size, but it's pretty small.

 

[JD]

I'm not sure if this is you wanted ManofSteel, but according to Amazon.com the book is 6.7 x 4.0 x 1.1 inches.

 

[Man of Steel]

^ I meant is it a font found in Word? Which raises the question: How do the editors decide the font for a particular book?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

It's some sort of serif font, dude. Nothing fancy, so it's probably Times or some variant thereof.

Not all books from Pocket's tie-in department use the same fonts. The WarCraft novels use a different font, for instance. Still a serif font, but with a different feel, one more befitting a fantasy novel.

How do editors pick? The market for the book might be one consideration. The font itself may make an artistic statement.

The point size may have everything to do with the book's length.

Fonts. I love 'em.

 

[Man of Steel]

Anything for a buck huh. .

 

[KRAD]

^ And the award for "Idiotic Non-Sequitur of the Day" goes to......

 

[JWolf]

KRAD said:
^ I, OTOH, couldn't get through The Hunt for Red October (which was irritating, since the movie's one of my favorites), and have found the best approach to be to skip Tom Clancy altogether.

I'm up to Day Eight and having a problem getting to Day Nine. I'll make it someday. I won't let Tom Clancy get the best of me. But it is kinda well DULL and I too really enjoyed the movie.

And don't leave out Stephen King. Check out how long the NEWER LONGER version of The Stand is.