No. Once again, accelerating the pace is not the same as finishing in one more book.
Tom Send a noteboard - 14/03/2011 03:02:46 PM
You can try to justify why Jordan did what he did all you like, but it's just your opinion. Ultimately, since history doesn't know the conditional mood, as they say, we can't even satisfactorily determine how many books it would have been.
The thing that I find amusing is that you go into extended analyses of plot lines as though somehow that was the problem, and Jordan was trying but failing to solve it.
Jordan had a good idea. He let it get away from him and started to drag things out because it was profitable. If he were just interested in tying things together he could have cut out a lot of needless dress explanations, horse names, and side stories that he intentionally added in books 7-10.
All of your explanations are simply guesses and fictional reconstructions of what Jordan might have wanted to do. You can't prove it, not remotely.
I would also remind you how TOR was trying to reissue the first six Wheel of Time books as two books each, with "new material". If that had made money you would have seen all six of the first books broken up. It was all about $$$, nothing more. That, and getting people used to the idea that big books like 1-6 were not going to appear in the future.
As for the TOR point, I'm just going by what Brandon Sanderson had written about the situation.
The thing that I find amusing is that you go into extended analyses of plot lines as though somehow that was the problem, and Jordan was trying but failing to solve it.
Jordan had a good idea. He let it get away from him and started to drag things out because it was profitable. If he were just interested in tying things together he could have cut out a lot of needless dress explanations, horse names, and side stories that he intentionally added in books 7-10.
All of your explanations are simply guesses and fictional reconstructions of what Jordan might have wanted to do. You can't prove it, not remotely.
I would also remind you how TOR was trying to reissue the first six Wheel of Time books as two books each, with "new material". If that had made money you would have seen all six of the first books broken up. It was all about $$$, nothing more. That, and getting people used to the idea that big books like 1-6 were not going to appear in the future.
As for the TOR point, I'm just going by what Brandon Sanderson had written about the situation.
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How Many Books Would AMoL Have Been If Jordan Had Not Passed Away?
- 11/03/2011 01:06:18 PM
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5, but I enjoy the series so much that 15 would have been fine with me. *NM*
- 11/03/2011 03:24:32 PM
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One, he said it himself every time.
- 11/03/2011 11:03:00 PM
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I think he only said that bc he knew his health was failing *NM*
- 22/03/2011 04:43:49 PM
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No, he had other projects he wanted to do. He wanted to warp it up and move on. *NM*
- 22/03/2011 05:00:53 PM
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If Jordan had not gotten sick in the first place or just if he hadn't died?
- 11/03/2011 11:11:26 PM
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Not in a million years...
- 12/03/2011 07:33:53 PM
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Why do you persist in this fiction?
- 13/03/2011 01:48:06 AM
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Me? It's you who's built up a fiction
- 13/03/2011 07:43:16 PM
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No. Once again, accelerating the pace is not the same as finishing in one more book.
- 14/03/2011 03:02:46 PM
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Please distinguish between the publisher's hopes and Jordan's intent. You ignore RJ's character too.
- 14/03/2011 10:46:58 PM
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*NM*
Re: Not in a million years...
- 15/03/2011 10:27:12 AM
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