The browser stopper?
So I've been reading TV Tropes a lot lately, and last Friday I happened to find my way to Door Stopper. The section listed many of my favourite books, but also had a section on fan fiction. Get a load of this:
Thanks to the lack of editors, Fan Fiction has a tendency to run into this, if you count works that are never or hardly ever printed and thus are unsuitable for doorstop use. For instance, FanFiction.Net, as of April 6, 2009, lists 326 Harry Potter stories longer than the 255,000-word Order of the Phoenix, the longest in the series, many of these incomplete. 686 are longer than Goblet of Fire's 191,000 words. At least seventeen FF.Net stories have over a million words, with the Ah My Goddess fanfic Trial By Tenderness having recently broken the 2 million mark - at Harry Potter word-per-page rates, that's 6,800 pages, and over three times the length of Atlas Shrugged. The author doesn't seem to be planning on stopping anytime soon, either.
Over three hundred fics longer than the monster that was Order of the Phoenix?? The mind, consider ir blown.
Thanks to the lack of editors, Fan Fiction has a tendency to run into this, if you count works that are never or hardly ever printed and thus are unsuitable for doorstop use. For instance, FanFiction.Net, as of April 6, 2009, lists 326 Harry Potter stories longer than the 255,000-word Order of the Phoenix, the longest in the series, many of these incomplete. 686 are longer than Goblet of Fire's 191,000 words. At least seventeen FF.Net stories have over a million words, with the Ah My Goddess fanfic Trial By Tenderness having recently broken the 2 million mark - at Harry Potter word-per-page rates, that's 6,800 pages, and over three times the length of Atlas Shrugged. The author doesn't seem to be planning on stopping anytime soon, either.
Over three hundred fics longer than the monster that was Order of the Phoenix?? The mind, consider ir blown.