On May 12, 2004, at 10:23 AM, John Klein wrote: > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Durston, Andrew (AGRE) wrote: > > @> Hi all, > @> > @> [Off topic, but this has always bugged me... ] > @> Has Robert Jordan ever commented on why his books have become more > @> turgid as they go onward? > @> > @> My wife and I joke that the next book will solely consist of Rand > @> having breakfast for 1000 pages... (and hence why we'll wait for the > @> local library to get it... ) > > Why is it that this idea actually sounds kind of neat to me? Not from > Jordan, of course. Just a 1000 page book set entirely at a > breakfast-table. An epic fantasy that never leaves the breakfast table! Someone much smarter than I could pull it off. Me I'd kill everyone off from boredom on page 50.