Ok thanks, all fair enough. I guess mainly "It could have been 5 pages to get the point across, but that doesn't sell a book." seemed...unreasonably hostile/cyn

Ok thanks, all fair enough. I guess mainly "It could have been 5 pages to get the point across, but that doesn't sell a book." seemed...unreasonably hostile/cynical. Someone is going to complain this exchange is too civil–it's happened to me before on here. :-)