Dragaera

Avoiding Jordan (Was: Re: POTD question...)

Thu Jan 23 19:03:51 PST 2003

At 06:32 PM 1/23/2003 -0600, Davis, Iain E. wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kat [mailto:tsarren at alyra.org]
>
> > I have heard the annoyance at the characters from just about
> > everyone I know. The general consensus seems to be that we
> > read Jordan for the complexity of the plot and the richness
> > of the world, but not for the depth of the characters.
>
>Oddly, that makes a certain amount of sense.  However, that kinda puts
>it in the "Yet Another World" category for me. Hmm.  I'm trying to think
>of some books that I liked that the characters weren't important (to me
>at least).  At first I couldn't think of any, but then I remembered
>Asimov's "Foundation Series".


What?  You didn't think Hari Seldon was cool?  Not to mention the other 
guy....uh...the one who tried to ignore his psycho-history training.  He 
was cool too.