> From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:55:49 -0500, The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> The Fool wrote: > >> > >> > But if you really wanted to you could stretch it out by only > > reading a > >> > couple chapters per week. There's something like 500 to 550 > > chapters > >> > so far and the next book would likely take 2 to three years to > > finish. > >> > >> How long are the chapters? > > > > Pretty good size. Ussually between twenty and forty pages or more. > > The later book Prologues can be up to an hundred pages or more > > (ussually 5 - 10 differnt POV's). > > > > Don't judge a Robert Jordan book by it's cover -- Literally. Only the > > first one has decent art, the rest are terrible and misleading, and > > sometimes are scenes that don't actually occur in any of the books. > > And even though they have similar numbers of pages, the last four books > > have only 3/5 to 4/5 of the number of words as the first seven books. > > Only the first one was a decent book. The second few were just OK and
You are wrong. The Fourth book was very nice. Book 6, 9, 11, also have some very nice scenes. > those following went downhill after that - to the point that I threw the > last one I read (6 or 7)accross the room midway through and have felt no > desire to go near one since. So you have no right at all to critisize the later books. Period. > Jorden is obviously milking it for all its worth, stretching a story that > should have ended at book three or four well beyond its logical conclusion. No, you are _Wrong_. The First thing he planned out was the very last scene of the very last book. The Second thing he planned out was the very first scene of the first book. The rest has merely been getting from the first scene to the last scene. The "logical conclusion' is the last scene that he has intended from the very start. > You'll thank yourself if you read Wheel of Time and pretend that there > aren't any more books in the series. You suggest she only read the first one, and you can't even bother to get the title right? _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
