Dragaera

Wheel of Taltos (was Brandy)

Mon Nov 18 14:58:48 PST 2002

On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 05:57:01PM -0500, Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> wrote:
> On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 05:36 PM, FelixEisen at aol.com wrote:
> >In some ways, I'm sorry I don't understand this particular thread.  
> >Mostly,
> >though, I am vastly pleased.  WoT seems to me to be a particularly 
> >blatant
> >'milk' series, not unlike Xanth.
> You'd be wrong. if you read the series you'd understand. Robert Jordan 
> is simply taking a loooooooong time to tell his story. Book 10 is due 
> soon, he says there will be twelve, unlike Xanth which is what, 30 book?

More accurately, Jordan isn't deliberately milking the story -- 
he's just lost track of where exactly he was going in all the 
details.  Recent books show some evidence of returning to 
appropriate course.

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