Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 02/08/2011 06:24:47 AM
(I really don't know these books - I have only read the first half of the first asoiaf book. Too much rape/killing/sex. - but i read lots of forums.)
The backslash is huge. Almost everybody says: despite its length (cca. 420 000 words, if I recall correctly) nothing happens in A Dance of Dragons.
I read only wot forums, where the opinions of aSoIF might actually have some relevance, and this is the first I've heard of it.The backslash is huge. Almost everybody says: despite its length (cca. 420 000 words, if I recall correctly) nothing happens in A Dance of Dragons.
Filler. Padding.
These are infantile words used to describe things some fans can't be bothered with. We (wot fans) know these words. Every Perrin/Faile chapter (Why Perrin didn't die in book 4??? He is useless.), almost every Elayne's chapter, Rand's chapters (from aCoS to aCoT) ...
You know, there's just no point in arguing this with you. Leave it at this. These opinions of yours, that these particular parts are filler or padding, are nonsensical. You call these portions by those terms, simply because you do not like those parts. That does not make them padding. They may or may not be badly written, but given that you seem to have no real idea of what the story in general is about, your assessment of these parts as padding says more about your shortcomings as a reader than Jordan's or Martin's as writers.
Unfortunately, Sanderson follows Jordan's path: the last two books have many, many filler chapters. (Around 60% , I think.)
Mr. Sanderson,
the best advice I can give you is this:
I know the book will be a bestseller but the last WoT book is very important to me/us.
Maybe the rest of us are stupid for swallowing filler and padding and thinking it is actually an enjoyable story, but you are the fucktard who reads a long series of large books you claim is mostly padding, and is only now expressing concern about this issue. "It's SOOOO important to me that you keep this last 7% of the series good, Mr. Sanderson!"Mr. Sanderson,
the best advice I can give you is this:
I know the book will be a bestseller but the last WoT book is very important to me/us.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light?
28/07/2011 03:30:30 PM
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It's impossible for nothing to happen in AMoL.
28/07/2011 07:30:02 PM
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Oh, you're so cute in your innocence!
02/08/2011 06:14:37 AM
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Re: A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light?
28/07/2011 07:37:24 PM
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Actually, there is growing discontent, even among those who've defended Martin.
07/08/2011 11:05:33 PM
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Those who says that nothing happens in ADWD really need to read CoT
29/07/2011 12:02:23 PM
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Watching grass grow is better than reading CoT, so it's not saying much for ADWD *NM*
30/07/2011 02:10:12 AM
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A Dance of Dragons is hardly filler. *shrugs* *NM*
31/07/2011 04:43:58 PM
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Agreed. It could be argued that more happens in the epilogue of ADWD than all of CoT. *NM*
01/08/2011 01:27:58 AM
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I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree.
02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM
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I do request that you don't lump ALL of fantasy into those two authors
02/08/2011 06:08:21 AM
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You are completely overlooking his point, however.
02/08/2011 06:12:45 AM
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F*** you, you idiot. *NM*
02/08/2011 06:13:48 AM
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At least he didn't ramble for five thousand words before actually making a point. *NM*
03/08/2011 11:04:06 PM
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Wait... You want intelligent meaningful books, but you're demanding action?
02/08/2011 06:52:00 AM
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I think the issue is conflating fantasy with the multi-volume epics than anything I'd disagree with
03/08/2011 04:05:12 AM
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Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
02/08/2011 06:24:47 AM
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Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
07/08/2011 10:40:41 PM
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Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come.
19/08/2011 12:07:24 PM
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Okay I'm not reading any of the replies in this thread until I finish ADwD, but I just wanted to say
10/08/2011 01:49:11 PM
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