Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 1/23/2003 7:40:31 PM Eastern Standard > Time, Gomi no Sensei <gomi at speakeasy.net> writes: > > > This is certainly why I got tired of Jordan (circa book 7) > > -- the characters, instead of filling out, actually > > _deflated_ into caricatures. Female characters in > > particular ring incredibly false -- does Jordan _know_ any > > women? > > Jordan has said (at booksignings) that all the female chars > are based on his wife. She seems to take this as a > compliment. > > The thing you have to understand about this series is that in > that universe, it is not possible for men and women to > cooperate or even understand each other. Didn't Eddings say the same thing? Or was it that his wife actually wrote all the female characters?