Dragaera

Brust interview

Tue May 11 09:12:53 PDT 2004

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:55:12AM -0400, Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> wrote:
> On May 11, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Matthew Hunter wrote:
> >This paragraph is fairly reassuring.
> >It is widely speculated that one of the reasons Jordan's series
> >degenerated so rapidly was because the online fan base engaged in
> >such extensive (one might even say "rabid") analysis of the
> >books.  The author noticed this and seemed to become annoyed that
> >we were unravelling a substantial fraction of his mysteries
> >before the story did, and so he started obfuscating them even
> >more (some would argue that he even changed his plans to avoid
> >giving the "accepted wisdom on the net" answer to some).
> That's an interesting theory. I always though he had diarrhea of the 
> word processor myself.

Certainly there's room for more than just one cause.

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