Agree fully. Art and paiting have rarely even been mentioned! It feels like a fan's writing...
fionwe1987 Send a noteboard - 05/09/2009 09:59:15 AM
What changes the most is not the story structure but the voice of the narrator. Calling the White Tower the metaphor, Tar Valon a workaday capital... those things don't gel with the voice RJ had as a narrator.
If nothing else, this will make us appreciate how much of our appreciation for the feel and atmosphere of Randland was because of RJ's supposedly unnecessary descriptions. Brandon describes a lot, maybe as much as RJ, but fails to have some coherence, IMO, which indicates that this is one connected world he is talking about.
To put it simply, where before I could imagine that the narrator was intimately aware of the world he described, he now seems like a tourist from our world, using our lingo to describe the WoT world. He says that the Rebel Amyrlin Egwene al'Vere was captive, when describing the thought process of the Rebel Aes Sedai in general. Would they not have thought that the Amyrlin was captive, as they did in the first chapter of the previous book?
For the first time, I am aware of the narrator as distinct from the setting and the story, and that will take time to get used to.
If nothing else, this will make us appreciate how much of our appreciation for the feel and atmosphere of Randland was because of RJ's supposedly unnecessary descriptions. Brandon describes a lot, maybe as much as RJ, but fails to have some coherence, IMO, which indicates that this is one connected world he is talking about.
To put it simply, where before I could imagine that the narrator was intimately aware of the world he described, he now seems like a tourist from our world, using our lingo to describe the WoT world. He says that the Rebel Amyrlin Egwene al'Vere was captive, when describing the thought process of the Rebel Aes Sedai in general. Would they not have thought that the Amyrlin was captive, as they did in the first chapter of the previous book?
For the first time, I am aware of the narrator as distinct from the setting and the story, and that will take time to get used to.
This is not RJ's writing. (No Spoilers)
05/09/2009 03:46:26 AM
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How long is it? I kinda wanna read it now, but I'm at work, so I'm not sure if I have time. *NM*
05/09/2009 03:55:02 AM
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Bah, so am I. 4.5 pages on Microsoft Word. Single space, no margin, Arial font, size 9.
05/09/2009 04:02:13 AM
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Yeah, it was actually a fairly quick read..no trouble at all reading it at work. *NM*
05/09/2009 05:00:17 AM
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It isn't supposed to be.
05/09/2009 04:08:46 AM
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Re: This is not RJ's writing. (No Spoilers)
05/09/2009 04:13:48 AM
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Absolutely not.
05/09/2009 04:18:51 AM
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Re: Absolutely not.
05/09/2009 04:25:16 AM
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That's what I meant by absolutely not.
05/09/2009 04:31:26 AM
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Could it be rough draft that Sanderson kept, and Jordan never polished? *NM*
05/09/2009 05:14:59 AM
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I doubt it
05/09/2009 05:17:09 AM
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Yeah, I just finished reading it....and it was pretty obvious that it wasn't RJ
05/09/2009 04:55:30 AM
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Re: Yeah, I just finished reading it....and it was pretty obvious that it wasn't RJ
05/09/2009 07:41:51 AM
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Becareful of what you wish for
05/09/2009 08:29:52 AM
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Agree fully. Art and paiting have rarely even been mentioned! It feels like a fan's writing...
05/09/2009 09:59:15 AM
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Are you pre-ordering the book?
05/09/2009 10:48:44 AM
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No. It was never meant to be, it never could be and Sanderson never pretended otherwise.
05/09/2009 07:40:37 PM
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It sounds more like Anderson than Jordan
05/09/2009 11:11:58 PM
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Re: It sounds more like Anderson than Jordan
06/09/2009 12:19:11 AM
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It isn't but I thought BS said he wasn't trying to be exactly like RJ
08/09/2009 08:12:24 PM
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