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In any case you can see why RJ wanted one book ajfurst Send a noteboard - 01/12/2010 01:41:56 AM
It's a pity they didn't split it into two books instead of three. Three books split by clusters or chronologically was going to be flawed in one of the ways discussed. Two books could have been split with it ending after Perrin destroyed the Dreamspike and the Shadowspawn.

So by that point in time you'd have had Rand, Egwene, Perrin's arc's completed, Avi's visions taking place when all those arcs are held up/in despair. Leaving only Perrin's talks with Elayne, Elayne's 'exciting' antics in Cairhien and Mat's ToG visit pushed to AMOL of the main arcs. Along with some of Lan and the Epilogue. And of those only the Moraine one missing would have disappointed fans. Sure TGS would have had 500 odd of the 750 odd pages of TOM and required more pages and/or a smaller font, but it would have resolved the problems of chronology - which for me is not the out of order, it's the lack of despair in TOM it caused - whilst still giving fans plenty of resolution.

Of course we would have had an extra 9-12 months to wait for the book in that case, so it wouldn't have been perfect. It would have been the best option though IMO. TGS would have had the Light set back then ready, then AMOL the Last Battle. A neat division, rather then an arbitrary one (TGS could just have easily been Rand and Perrin or Rand and Mat, with TOM Egwene and Perrin or Egwene and Mat).
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/tGS: These are damned good books. - 27/11/2010 02:22:05 AM 1467 Views
OK. *NM* - 27/11/2010 02:35:06 AM 330 Views
meh. ToM sucked for me. after tGS, I had become a bit hopeful, but now I see ... - 27/11/2010 03:39:49 AM 830 Views
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Yeah, they are - 27/11/2010 06:03:59 AM 762 Views
Disagree strongly on the time line issue - TOM showed what a mistake splitting by 'clusters' was IMO - 27/11/2010 07:24:55 AM 804 Views
Re: Disagree strongly on the time line issue - TOM showed what a mistake splitting by 'clusters' was - 27/11/2010 05:59:47 PM 701 Views
I agree with this as well. - 27/11/2010 06:31:37 PM 811 Views
Splitting it this way was the only realistic choice - 29/11/2010 01:58:52 PM 671 Views
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Re: Disagree - plus COT lacked almost anything full stop - 30/11/2010 12:18:57 AM 697 Views
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In any case you can see why RJ wanted one book - 01/12/2010 01:41:56 AM 703 Views
BS style - 27/11/2010 07:25:38 AM 890 Views
That's the thing! If it was in its normal, Jordan paced writing, ... - 27/11/2010 08:52:05 AM 756 Views
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And you know how RJ would've outlined the books from where? - 28/11/2010 05:07:31 AM 749 Views
BURN! *NM* - 29/11/2010 01:20:21 AM 332 Views
Re: And you know how RJ would've outlined the books from where? - 29/11/2010 08:16:12 AM 671 Views
so...you're guessing. - 30/11/2010 08:08:14 PM 729 Views
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Have some question - 28/11/2010 05:38:42 AM 754 Views
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You stole my putters name, btw. - 29/11/2010 01:14:47 PM 784 Views
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I didn't have any problems either. *NM* - 30/11/2010 04:40:24 AM 347 Views

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