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)