On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:29:15PM -0800, "Penney, Sean" <seanp at ea.com> wrote: > 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. > I disagree. I gave up on Jordan after book 5 or 6 when I > became confused as to whether or not I had already read the > book. I hadn't, but the events in each book were sufficiently > alike that I was having trouble telling the difference. That was the beginning of the doldrums, yes. But you have a bit of gall to be making judgements on the whole series when you have only read half of it. Yes, it has gone pretty far down, but calling it "blatant milking" is IMO incorrect. Hopefully it will recover -- and as noted, the last book made some significant progress. Now, you want blatant milking... try Piers Anthony, > Charles Dickens and other Victorian writers used to milk their > serial publications because they were being paid by the word. I'm familiar with the form, yes. > Books like "Bleak House" were the result. Jordan is a modern > day Victorian serial writer. It's a great formula - develop a > rich world, fill it with interesting people and places, then > advance the story a plot-point per book. (OK, I'm exaggerating, > but the series had a lot of promise and he's gone and scared me > off). Don't be scared off yet. He still has the chance to end the series well. > As for Anthony, I think he's gone senile - "The colour of her > Panties" - puh-lease. And puns are the lowest form of humour - > the ONLY form of humour he seems capable of nowadays. To think > this is the same fellow who wrote "Macroscope" and the > "Omnivore, Orn & Ox" series. Senile would be one word for it. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt