> Okay. But, although admittedly there's a lot of threads with a lot of > characters near the beginning, by page 100 you almost certainly have _some_ > idea of what's going to happen . . . > > > (Unlike Delaney's _Dhalgren_, where by page 100 most readers have given up > and thrown the book away in disgust . . . ) >
Unlike John Varley's otherwise wonderful _Steel Beach_, in which the plot
does not arrive until roughly page 400 (of a 480-page book), but when it arrives,
it ALL arrives at once, like a cloudburst dumping 8 inches or rain in an
hour.
By coincidence, that's just about what we're having outside right now . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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