Title: Cussler page count
pasoleati - October 28, 2006 02:24 AM (GMT)
What on earth is happening? I have noted that word count of recent Cussler books is not what it used to be when Flood Tide, Sahara etc were done??? If mr. Cussler or any of friends are monitoring: I wish you could do books as thick as Clancy´s Executive Orders! I dislike short books (short=less than 500 English pages on using average text density).
DirkPitt - October 28, 2006 08:35 AM (GMT)
Are you referring to the Clive/Dirk's last book or the Kemprecos and DuBrul books? Black Wind has 529pp and Treasure of Khan has 560pp so I assume you mean the Numa Files and Oregon Files books.
pasoleati - October 28, 2006 10:35 AM (GMT)
Dirk, my apologies. I should have mentioned that I mean mainly Finnish editions. E.g. the Finnish edition of Black Wind has only 400 pages. E.g. the Cyclops had over 500 pages in its Finnish edition.
DirkPitt - October 28, 2006 05:12 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (pasoleati @ Oct 28 2006, 06:35 PM) |
| the Finnish edition of Black Wind has only 400 pages. E.g. the Cyclops had over 500 pages in its Finnish edition. |
Thats interesting. I wonder if the Finnish Black Wind has been shortened or if that is normal for translated books.
pasoleati - October 28, 2006 06:08 PM (GMT)
At least that is not mentioned. Sahara was abridged, and I am pretty furious over that! Other Cusslers have not been abridged, at least according to the publisher. What I also find annoying is the fact that only one Kurt Austin (Andrea Doria) adventure has been translated and none of the co-efforts with Dirgo.
If you have the English hardcover edition of Trojan Odyssey, could you calculate the number of lines per page and how many characters (letters, spaces etc) there are per page? Finnish edition has 40 lines and 66-70 characters per full line. There are 389 numbered pages. I don´t know if you knew this, but it is often said by experts that translating the same text from English to Finnish results in text requiring more space. At least some cartoonist have mentioned that they have to draw bigger "bubbles" to cater for differences in length.
Mostly Heep - October 28, 2006 09:13 PM (GMT)
This is interesting.........
My ppb German Treasure has 638 pages,the American version 547 and the British 600,those are all the ppb versions.
Inca Gold American Hb 538, British hb 539,American Trade ppb 577,Estonian ppb 303,Polish ppb 462,Swedish Hb 438..
Cyclops American hb 475,British BCE 460,British ppb 500,German ppb 511
Sahara American hb 541,American trade ppb 568, Serbian ppb 527,Hebrew ppb 554
quite the differences between languages and editions