Hmm.. I think they only got that long is because the writers were encouraged to do so. People expected higher word count to go along with higher prices. Books

Hmm.. I think they only got that long is because the writers were encouraged to do so. People expected higher word count to go along with higher prices. Books didn't used to be all that long. Agatha Christie novels were 40 - 60K words. The Great Gatsby was around 50K IIRC. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskerville was 60K Jaws was about 80K