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They could have just not finished the series. Crackbrained Asha'man Send a noteboard - 24/12/2009 06:16:49 AM
Having just re read the rest of the series after completing tGS, I just can't bring myself to read tGS again.

The rest of the series has just hit home what an appalling mess tGS is. The slightly off characters, The moronic internal ramblings. The meandering dialogue. The basic step by step descriptions of every thing that happens.

The recent messageboard discussion on Hinderstap really brought it all home to me too.

My initial feelings were that tGS was .....ok.... I gave it the benefit of the doubt.

But as I sat at home with it last night I just could read the thing. I thumbed through read a couple of lines here and there, couldn't get off the first page when I tried to start it.

It is just a complete mess of a book when held beside the rest of the series.

Anyway it now resides in a cardboard box in my spare room together with Bridget Jones diary and whatever other books of the week my girlfriend happened to buy, and not read, this month, where it will stay.

I will still buy the remaining two books to find out what happens and will read them at least once, But I fear I will not enjoy them, I will just be finding out the ending.

Am I alone in this opinion?


As others have already said; Sanderson is not RJ and isn't trying to be. He writes with his style and what works for him. I know that having the last 15% of a series written by a different Author isn't ideal and characters and descriptions you've grown accustom to are no longer the same, but that doesn't mean that those books are necessarily bad.

I personally really enjoyed TSG. I'd say it's one of my favorites' in the series and I'm really looking forward to the last two books and will be considering books by Sanderson in the future. Given the circumstances I'm glad that the series is being finished by an author that is willing and able to adapt his writing style to Characters and a World that are not his creation rather that have the series never finished.
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Can't bring myself to re-read tGS - 23/12/2009 12:01:33 PM 1596 Views
I think pretty much alone, yes - 23/12/2009 01:39:52 PM 967 Views
I have to agree...it was very enjoyable - 23/12/2009 01:48:39 PM 905 Views
I dont know if it's my first favorite or second favorite *NM* - 23/12/2009 04:07:53 PM 365 Views
tGS is IMHO easily one of the top 5 books in the series. *NM* - 23/12/2009 04:28:34 PM 467 Views
No, tGS was a pile of crap. *NM* - 23/12/2009 02:52:40 PM 381 Views
There were parts that clearly needed some help... - 23/12/2009 05:23:22 PM 867 Views
Pretty good given the circumstances. I'm grateful. - 23/12/2009 06:49:46 PM 962 Views
Boo hoo hoo. *NM* - 24/12/2009 02:19:28 AM 343 Views
They could have just not finished the series. - 24/12/2009 06:16:49 AM 839 Views
Re: Can't bring myself to re-read tGS - 27/12/2009 09:00:53 PM 705 Views
Wow. I thought it was a LOT better than some previous books. - 27/12/2009 11:02:13 PM 868 Views
No, you're not. It was OK - I was more happy that the series seemed to be progressing - 29/12/2009 03:43:59 PM 655 Views
Except for the Mat parts, it was fairly good. - 30/12/2009 04:30:15 AM 685 Views
Yeah, CoT is one of the WoT books I don't even use as a reference. I try to forget it. *NM* - 30/12/2009 03:53:25 PM 361 Views
It's kind of sad - 31/12/2009 03:25:03 AM 705 Views
Re: Except for the Mat parts, it was fairly good. - 17/01/2010 10:49:29 PM 772 Views
I couldn't disagree more. - 17/01/2010 11:06:52 PM 713 Views
Not alone! - 19/01/2010 05:41:03 AM 651 Views

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