> To be honest, I've never read any of those novels with an open mind. I'm prejudiced against them because I feel that in each case the original story was just the right length and said everything that needed to be said. In my mind, regardless of the reality, a novel length version is just pointless padding.
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> Pa"don't try changing my mind -- reality is irrelevant"ul

That's an unusual statement from you. I prefer to think -- or, I prefer to HOPE -- that there is some modicum of "real, OBJECTIVE reality" that does exist in the universe... which, nevertheless, is interpreted via shared mental projections among humans and some animals. It is true, though, that the personal consciousness we individually experience as "human reality" tends to be frighteningly malleable and manipulatable.

Wolfspirit