I APOLOGIZE FOR MY BAD ENGLISH - please forgive me And thanks again for your answers!


"he realised these things seemed pretty much common place expectations among the real maniacs of the series"

WorldCon week-end book signing with Brandon 2009


"Another question was if there were shocking/very surprising twists coming (Brandon was asked to answer this one as a fan when he read the outline). Sanderson said himself was surprised by a few things (most of which will happen in book 13) and he initally had a few WTF! moments when Harriet or Maria explained to him what Jordan intended to happen during some of the outline's gaps, but after looking around the WOT sites more he realised these things seemed pretty much common place expectations among the real maniacs of the series. He also said if someone picked all the right bits from all the theories and threads and put them together and in the right order, that's pretty much the books. So, no, in his opinion, there aren't many big plot twists or shocking moments in store, not for the hardcore fans - he said Jordan rather found out interesting ways to tie up all the foreshadowing and it made for a very satisfying finale, especially the third part, the Last Battle, which he enjoyed the most."


So he basically says: The Ending (book 12, 13, 14) = Lost final
season/finale. (I'm one of the 10 people who liked the ending, it was so emotional.)

And honestly, the last two books were very boring. Why? Let's see the main reasons!


1. Robert Jordan's fault: too much foreshadowing

(from the very first page - I think less is more but sometimes it's really funny the way Jordan used it)


2. the smart fans (some of them are genius, no doubt)

WoT (like Lost) has many dedicated fans, who really theorized everything out. These fans had theorized over the many possibilities the last book could’ve taken after book 1, after book 2 etc, loony/crackpot theories are everywhere, and we, like serious fans had read/discussed everything what we found.


3. Sanderson

I must quote Luckers by saying:

http://www.dragonmount.com/forums/topic/56925-can-it-be-done-in-just-one-more-book/page__p__1764954#entry1764954

"I do believe that Brandon should have put his foot down--WoT books needed two years by the master--and I know thats a harsh judgement on my behalf, given it would have brought flack (from us ingrateful bastards) down on him in a torrent--but then he accepted that responsibility when he took on the job."

I agree with Luckers, no one can write two qualitative books (330 000 words - WoT and 400 000 words - TWoK) in every year (!), plus the constant use of twitter, facebook, chat, e-mail, plus teaching, plus going to conventions, FAMILY etc.

To sum up, I think these novels are sub-par because the aforementioned stuffs.

What do you think?



Post scriptum: my friends (Henriette, Klaudia, cseresz, igorr) and me have a dream ending:

One step, and he stopped, the blood draining from his face.

“You? No!”