It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What I find remarkable is that so much of the 18th century literature that I read is more accessible than reading your alternative weekly from ten years ago. People really aspired to write clearly.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.
Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
There's so much more to a book than just the reading.
Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Books come from within.