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It depends... Zeratul Send a noteboard - 17/11/2011 05:40:24 PM
I'm a total Sanderson fanboy, and even I wouldn't go that far. I dearly love Sanderson's other works, and I wouldn't say his WoT books are the worst of the series (especially because it's hard to account for which plot elements were his and which were RJ's- ugh, that Graendal thing still kind of bugs me), but I can't even imagine putting tGS or ToM above Winter's Heart, Knife of Dreams, Shadow Rising, Fires of Heaven, and maybe some others if I ever sat down and did a real ranking.

Weird.


Personally I think TGS is by far the best book in the second part of the series. It has its problems, but they are much less severe than those of book 7-11, in which Jordan lost control of the plot, let side stories get expanded to a ridiculous degree, and build most of the plot on the characters behaving stupidly and out of character at plot convenient moments instead of keeping them consistent. It's not the lack of action and battles that's the problem for me, I've never cared much about this stuff anyway.

The Shadow Rising and The Fires of Heaven are the best books in the series IMO, and Jordan at his best was better and polished writer than Sanderson for sure, but I honestly find it hard to understand those people who claim that Sanderson's books are clearly the worst and they drag the series down. TGS is much closer in quality to TFOH and TSR than CoT is to TGS, and ye, Cot is inferior to TGS, thanks for asking. ToM is much inferior to TGS IMO, but still easily better than books 8-10. The series was already dragged down by Jordan producing successive subpar books before Sanderson took over.
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Are there really people who like Sanderson's WoT better than Jordan's? - 17/11/2011 03:44:53 AM 728 Views
It depends... - 17/11/2011 05:40:24 PM 815 Views
Re: It depends... - 17/11/2011 07:31:38 PM 899 Views
Uh... I like them more than some of his books? - 06/12/2011 09:51:59 PM 732 Views
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What do you mean by "abuses dialogue to carry scenes?" - 17/11/2011 03:38:03 PM 730 Views
Re: What do you mean by "abuses dialogue to carry scenes?" - 17/11/2011 04:34:30 PM 850 Views
A considered and mature response. Or some crude name-calling - read and find out which! - 17/11/2011 05:37:38 AM 951 Views
ha ha ha love your final metaphor *NM* - 17/11/2011 03:54:58 PM 385 Views
So do I !!! - 17/11/2011 06:15:24 PM 1073 Views
Re: A considered and mature response. Or some crude name-calling - read and find out which! - 18/11/2011 02:40:04 AM 779 Views
Good point. Very well reasoned and articulate. - 18/11/2011 03:01:29 AM 855 Views
Re: A considered and mature response. Or some crude name-calling - read and find out which! - 18/11/2011 02:44:15 AM 726 Views
This is the stupidest thing I have ever read in my life. That B-Sand did not write. - 18/11/2011 03:02:45 AM 897 Views
*confused* - 18/11/2011 03:38:34 AM 830 Views
Yes, absolutely not. *NM* - 18/11/2011 06:18:32 PM 358 Views
Sorry for the double post *NM* - 18/11/2011 05:04:35 AM 980 Views
No way tGS and ToM are the worst in the series. Not the best, but not the worst. - 02/12/2011 06:20:43 PM 1202 Views

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