Dan Simmons, a guy best known for his respected sci-fi stuff like the four-book “Hyperion Cantos”, has now produced a horror novel so big and heavy it could knock your head off, if flung. It’s called Drood, and it weighs in at 771 pages.

This is a good thing, of course, if you like reading and want to withdraw from the world for three or four days. And who doesn’t?

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