On Wed, 12 May 2004, John Klein wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Chris Turkel wrote: > > @> > @> My wife and I joke that the next book will solely consist of Rand > @> > @> having breakfast for 1000 pages... (and hence why we'll wait for the > @> > @> local library to get it... ) > @> > > @> > Why is it that this idea actually sounds kind of neat to me? Not from > @> > Jordan, of course. Just a 1000 page book set entirely at a > @> > breakfast-table. > @> > @> An epic fantasy that never leaves the breakfast table! Someone much > @> smarter than I could pull it off. Me I'd kill everyone off from boredom > @> on page 50. > > So, basically, the remaining 9950 pages would be a detailed account of the > putrefaction of their corpses. Ingenius! This has been written, by Jim Crace - it's called _Being Dead_. It won the Nation Book Circle Award. Though to be accurate it's only 195 pages.