Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read this.
RabidWombat Send a noteboard - 07/08/2011 10:24:29 PM
I have every confidence in Jordan's ability to not fully explain things and frustrate the casual fan and in Sanderson's ability to completely miss what RJ was going for and screw it up, leaving us with neither answers nor Jordan's original vision.
Very funny and like so many funny things so true.
I don't things are as bad as you think, though. I liked ToM a fair amount. It seemed more true to RJs vision than tGS. Maybe he will get better in AMoL.
Most of the people I know who read a lot of fantasy don't like WoT much. In some sense WoT is more of a historical novel than a fantasy novel. It doesn't fit well into any genre. It is some weird combination of 1 part fantasy/epic, 1 part historical novel, 1 part Little Women/Anne of Green Gables, 1 part logic puzzle, 1 part Classic Literature. You have to quite eclectic to appreciate it.
Very funny and like so many funny things so true.
I don't things are as bad as you think, though. I liked ToM a fair amount. It seemed more true to RJs vision than tGS. Maybe he will get better in AMoL.
Most of the people I know who read a lot of fantasy don't like WoT much. In some sense WoT is more of a historical novel than a fantasy novel. It doesn't fit well into any genre. It is some weird combination of 1 part fantasy/epic, 1 part historical novel, 1 part Little Women/Anne of Green Gables, 1 part logic puzzle, 1 part Classic Literature. You have to quite eclectic to appreciate it.
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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Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read this.
- 07/08/2011 10:24:29 PM
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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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- 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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*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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