1 | '''Basic Trope''': A long, thick, heavy book. |
2 | * '''Straight''': ''The Story'' contains 30 chapters, each around 100 pages. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': ''The Story'' contains 3,000 chapters, each goes well above 10,000 pages, printed in 10pt fonts. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': ''The Story'' actually consists of [[{{Omnibus}} a trilogy of books, published as one.]] |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** ''The Story'' is a long, complex story, perhaps [[NestedStory with several]] [[KudzuPlot different]] PlotThreads. |
7 | ** A How To book or other nonfiction book details a complicated subject. |
8 | ** Or it's a GreatBigBookOfEverything. |
9 | * '''Inverted''': ''The Story'' is a one-shot ShortStory or a novella. |
10 | * '''Subverted''': |
11 | ** ''The Story'' is a compilation of short stories writen over a large period of time. |
12 | ** ''The Story'' is big in volume but only a little fraction of each page is used. |
13 | ** ''The Story'' has really big letters. |
14 | ** ''The Story'' is mostly composed of blank pages. |
15 | ** There are a lot of illustrations. |
16 | ** ''The Story'' has really thick pages. |
17 | ** Given that most of ''The Story'' is filler or padding, the author warns the reader to skip them entirely. |
18 | ** A much shorter abridged version of ''The Story'' is published. |
19 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
20 | ** Even when the individual stories are deceptively short, taken as a whole, the series constitutes a Doorstopper Series. (May or may not be combined into an {{Omnibus}}), depending on the publisher. |
21 | ** Even if the format makes use of lots of pages to comunicate very little information, when taken on a normal format still takes 20 thousand pages. |
22 | ** Hardcore fans read the padding and filter anyway. |
23 | ** The abridged version is still bigger than most phone books. |
24 | * '''Parodied''': |
25 | ** Bob manages to lift ''The Story'' over his head, but is promptly flattened by it. |
26 | ** Bob uses ''The Story'' as [[UsefulBook an actual doorstop]]. |
27 | * '''Zig Zagged''': The book is magical and gets bigger or smaller depending on who is reading. |
28 | * '''Averted''': The book is of average length. |
29 | * '''Enforced''': "I want to write a HeroicFantasy containing [[JigsawPuzzlePlot many different plot threads]], a large cast, a LoveDodecahedron, etc." |
30 | * '''Lampshaded''': "It's a long story..." |
31 | * '''Invoked''': See "Enforced". |
32 | * '''Exploited''': |
33 | ** Bob uses ''The Story'' as an improvised weapon. |
34 | ** Someone uses ''The Story'' literally as a doorstop or paperweight. |
35 | ** Bob writes secret information in one of the pages of ''The Story'', knowing that, given its size, nobody will find it. |
36 | * '''Defied''': |
37 | ** The writer doesn't want the audience to be intimidated or bored by a long story and either shortens it or doesn't write it. |
38 | ** The publisher [[ExecutiveMeddling makes the author]] compress the story, fearing that a book that length will hurt [[MoneyDearBoy sales]]. |
39 | ** The story gets DividedForPublication. |
40 | * '''Discussed''': "Did anyone actually finish ''The Story''?" |
41 | * '''Conversed''': "It was so long, I couldn't finish it with my busy schedule." |
42 | * '''Implied''': "Alice is a fast reader, but she's been at ''The Story'' for a long time." |
43 | * '''Deconstructed''': May be a sign of excessive {{Padding}} and/or just plain bad writing. The [[EndingFatigue audience may grow bored and give up]]. |
44 | * '''Reconstructed''': {{Padding}} is not used excessively, and the plotlines keep the audience hungry for more; they end up not giving a damn ''how'' long it is. |
45 | * '''Played For Drama''': Alice neglects her schedule to finish ''The Story''. |
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47 | Back to {{Doorstopper}} |
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49 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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51 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
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