After ‘The Stand’ everything seems short

I finished ‘The Stand’ last night. 1211 pages was a lot, but I must admit that the length was kinda justified. It allowed King to create complex storylines and take the reader and characters through an epidemic/pandemic that killed about 99% of the population and its aftermath. You get to follow the characters as they start travelling and meeting other people and you also get to see them making key choices - Mother Abagail vs Randall Flagg, for example.

All in all, it was an excellent book. The funny thing is that now every book that I have seems quite short. Except Rebbecca Ray’s ‘Newfoundland’ which has 1002 pages. I got it for my dissertation but I decided I haven’t got time for it. I’m still in no rush to read it.

I’m now reading a Romanian crime novel by Rodica Ojog Brașoveanu. I started it a few weeks ago as a ‘read on the go’ book (I wasn’t gonna carry the other brick with me), but I can finally read it properly with a cup of green tea on the side. I’ll probably finish it today and start another ROB book - I have a volume with two novellas in it and I’ve only read the first so I’m curious.