10-21-2003, 10:24 AM
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Chafed.
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Originally posted by SpaceAce
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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Sounds like exactly my approach to it.
I agree with you that he has a lot of balls in the air with all these characters and subplots, but if that is the case it should be PACKED with action jumping from one set of characters to the next with every word used efficiently. I think just the opposite is happening in book 10, and he keeps adding more characters and subplots. No way he can wrap it up in 2 or 3 more books.
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