For all you WOT readersFollow

When you drone on that long, as the Wheel of Time series does, you're not telling a story any more. You're inviting people to live in your world. I quit about book 7, but I'm still curious how it turns out.

Whatever the ending turns out to be, I'm certain he could have wrapped it up in vastly fewer words.

He's an artist, and has the freedom to do this. I've quit. I'm certain lots of others have, too.

Maybe, but I think he just fell in love with his own creation and got a little out of hand with it all.

Either way, he would have benefited from a good editor.

Could have been worse.

Gawd, can you imagine if Thomas Wolfe had been cranking out serial fantasy novels?

Well, ya, I'm way too nice. As I see it, he had a legitimate chance to start a new genre: the plot-thin novel. You don't advance the plot to conclude the tensions. You *live* in the world delving into minutia of everyday life.

There is a reason this would be "new": it's intimately connected to the fact most readers won't put up with it.

The way I see it, he worked long and hard to satisfy people who actually wanted that, as a result.

TWOT series.

It seemed to me that the first half of each book did nothing but recount the events of the previous book and give a bit more insight into the political and cultural structure of the world in which the series is set. The second half, in some cases, offered a bit of plot continuance - though not always. Jordan spent far too much time elaborating on irrelevant details - he makes Stephen King (or, for that matter, gbaji) look concise.

I got one of his books in a white elephant gift exchange. I tried to read it at least 4 times, but never did get past the introduction chapter. That was supposed to be one of the good ones too, haha!

Yeah, Faith of the Fallen was a laughable diatribe against communism. Well, it was funny at first, but then got ridiculously boring. It was, I think, the 5th book in the Goodkind series and I never read another one after that.

Nice enough guy in person though. I met him at a book signing where I was getting one of the books signed for a gift for my father. When I told him to make it out to my dad, he looked at me and said, "You don't want me to sign one for you?" I said that I read them as well, but I only had enough money for one book that day, haha. He then dug up a bookmark and signed it for me, it was really cute. The photo of him on his bookjackets makes him look like some big, beefy guy, but he's really tiny and almost sickly looking.

Maybe he's got cancer too, bhodi, you may be in luck.

Nexa