Dragaera

the next vlad book?

Thu Jul 18 09:07:41 PDT 2002

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:03:48PM -0400, Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Yes, Robert Jordan tends to over write alot--sometimes I just want to 
> scream "Get on with it!". At first, like during the first four books, I 
> was impressed by the level of detail and nuances he described. Now, 5 
> books later, I find it irritating.

I don't mind the quantity of Jordan's writing much.  What bugs me
is how much the quality has declined.  The first three or four
books were tightly written, tightly paced, innovative fantasy. 
After that they started to bog down in relatively irrelevent
details.  You can spend quite a bit of time dissecting the books
to extract every last tidbit of information (there's a LOT that's
implied by the details, rather than stated outright), and I enjoy
doing that.  Lately, though, even trying that kind of analysis
just leaves you spinning in circles, whereas before it could
provide at least some clear answers.

-- 
Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)