----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> To: "Drageara List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:07 AM Subject: Re: Brust interview > > > 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. > A movie along similar lines is "Zoo: A Zed and Two Naughts". warbi