The Middle Game

"I kept reading a lot of times because I was feeling compelled to find out, Oh, what happens next? Are they going to like discover this thing that they are, you know, connected in some way?" "But it did feel like it stretched on for a long time. And then occasionally at time, I feel like some of the really interesting stuff comes much later," he says. "'Middle game' would be half the length. It would be 250 300 pages, not 500 pages."