On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 18:34, Mia McDavid wrote: > God, this sounds like the disease David Weber has developed! Is there a > cure??? > > Mia > > Andrew said: > > > > > I've read in interviews with him that is taking so long because it is > > taking longer than he planned to explain stuff, cultures, people, etc. > > Maybe Mr. Jordan if you stopped writing pages of people sniffing, > > straightening dresses or casting icy looks, you'd be finished by now. > > Jordan is worse than Weber. At least Weber puts his exposition in blocks which can be skipped without too much trouble. Steve has the vast advantage of being able to get prolixity out of his system by channeling it through Paarfi, for whom prolixity is a structural principle rather than simply flabbiness (although I shudder at the idea of Jordan as told in Paarfi's style).