Okay I'm not reading any of the replies in this thread until I finish ADwD, but I just wanted to say
Sareitha Sedai Send a noteboard - 10/08/2011 01:49:11 PM
(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.
Filler. Padding.
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) ... 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. We don't need more fluff, rehashing, summarizes, rehashing, summarizes, fluff. If you could write the in book in 400 pages (cca. 150 000 words), then write it in 400 pages.
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.
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) ... 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. We don't need more fluff, rehashing, summarizes, rehashing, summarizes, fluff. If you could write the in book in 400 pages (cca. 150 000 words), then write it in 400 pages.
AFfC seemed like a lot of filler. So far the pace of ADwD is better than that but nowhere near as good as the first 3 books, especially the 3rd. My sense so far (about 300 pgs into ADwD) is that splitting out books 4 and 5 into 2 books was ridiculous and I don't see the point at all. I'm really curious about that decision...all I know about it is what GRRM wrote at the end of AFfC about how it was too long and he needed to split it. My opinion at this point is that these could easily have been one book and still had some filler.
If you are from Betelgeuse, please have one of your Earth friends read what I've written before you respond. Or try concentrating harder.
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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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*NM*
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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