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Originally posted by gornyhuy
I am/was a rabid Robert Jordan fan, I've reread the whole series (so far) several times because he takes like 2 years between books now, HOWEVER:
Book 10 may as well not even have been written... nothing fucking happens. I honestly think that Jordan is just strrrreeeeetching them out to make more money. its fucking annoying. 
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I've read 1-9 many times, I burn through books at a tremendous pace. I read number one then I waited several years to read number two so I had to read number one, again, first. Then when number three came out, I read number one and number two, again, etc. I never get sick of the first six books but around book seven, the series started to bog down. Books seven eight and nine are still good books but not nearly as good as the early ones. That's why I haven't bothered to read number ten, yet.
I am not so sure that he's stretching it out for the money. I think it's a simple matter of having too many stories to tell. Think of how many <B>main</B> characters there are: Lan, Egwene, Nynaeve, Elayne, Rand, Perrin, Mat, Tom, Loial, all of the Forsaken and Elaida just to name a few. Then, factor in all the minor and supporting characters like a dozen of the Aiel, Juilan Sanders, a handful of false dragons, the Asha'man and so on and you end up with a lot of words that need writing.
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