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Post by Splitshell on Mar 2, 2005 13:20:39 GMT -5
I have some real issues with his later works in the Wheel of Time series. He's gotta snip some character threads here...too many plot lines...
But his first 5 books are the best.
Any debate on that?
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Post by laurelin on Mar 2, 2005 15:09:16 GMT -5
I think pretty much everyone will agree with you that there are "issues" with the later however many, to say the least. I have a number of qualms with Jordan. He has too many female characters, few of which have any discernable names (Egwene, Elayne, Moirane, do we see a pattern?), much less personalities. He has too many characters in general, as you said, as well. He can't ever just get to his points; the first few books aren't that bad, but he gets more and more into the habit of drawing out a plotline as long as he possibly can. I'm tired of ranting now.
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Post by Inkling on Apr 21, 2005 15:06:03 GMT -5
I think pretty much everyone will agree with you that there are "issues" with the later however many, to say the least. I have a number of qualms with Jordan. He has too many female characters, few of which have any discernable names (Egwene, Elayne, Moirane, do we see a pattern?), much less personalities. He has too many characters in general, as you said, as well. He can't ever just get to his points; the first few books aren't that bad, but he gets more and more into the habit of drawing out a plotline as long as he possibly can. I'm tired of ranting now. It's funny, what you said is exactly what I woud say about the Left Behind series. |
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Post by Dred on Sept 18, 2007 12:44:15 GMT -5
Sad newsIt seems we'll never know the ending.
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Post by Child of Immanuel on Sept 18, 2007 15:50:50 GMT -5
I couldn't get into the first one when I tried it.
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Post by Dred on Sept 19, 2007 13:54:05 GMT -5
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Post by hamameliss on Nov 14, 2007 1:08:02 GMT -5
I agree that his story was getting too drawn out. I was beginning to despair of ever finding the end of the story. It is even sadder to now realize that we will never be able to find out.  I found after a few books that Jordan repeated himself too much. It had begun to irritate me that his descriptions of main characters were extremely redundant, especially if you read his books together. I will say in his defense, though, that he developed a highly intricate world, but by the time I got to the later books, I had forgotten about characters in the early ones. The last time I picked one up, I was about to pull one of my grandmother's strategies which is to list out all the characters on 3x5 cards as a reference. |
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