In a message dated 2/20/2004 4:22:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> writes: >Jerry Friedman writes: >> Yabbut, Konrad was specifically asking for comparison with >> Robert Jordan. I assure you, that's a single book that's >> being published in n physical volumes. I'm going to officially retract the comments I made last night, since I've spent all morning remembering counter examples (like Donaldson's trilogies from the 70's, or Hugh Cook's _Wizard War_ that I'm currently reading). > Yes, but he was being compared to Hobb, whose first series > [under that name] of books does have some closure in each > book (though the Hobb "Fitz" books (the Assassin books and > the Fool books) are probably best taken as a single > narrative in six parts; note that they do have a single > point of view at all times, since they are written as > autobiography; near as I can tell, this renders them > utterly dissimilar to Jordan's work, and far closer to, > say, Brust, if not either as compartmentalized nor as well > written). Now that I've bothered to think about it, her Farseer trilogy is structured nearly identical to Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series, though her other two trilogies or more three-volume novels. --KG