----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Turkel" <zizban at adelphia.net> To: "Drageara List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 7:34 AM Subject: Re: Brust interview > > 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. > Wasn't that called Ulysses? warbi