Timewaster's Guide Archive

WASP = White Anglo Saxon PROTESTANT.

My point was Hello Kitty has nothing to do with WASP, because it's Japanese.

Maybe what the DO wants is for Rand to be using Balefire then. Afterall Rand just did burn a huge hole in the pattern by destroying the castle in tGS.

Well Lanfear has already spoke treasons words against the DO so I am not wholly certain that some of them might be upset that they will blink out of existence should the DO win. I think some of them REALLY believe that they will live in a world they get to rule under the DO. They seem to think that the world will be one giant Morador for them to parcel up.

Well I can't wait to read it as I do enjoy epic fantasy and Brandon had answered me on Twitter that there would be two romances in the story.

This is an excellent idea since Brandon is so forthcoming in speaking with his fandom. So I would love if he answered a question of the week and a question that didn't get a RAFO.

Yeah, he's pretty much an arrogant jerk, and he thinks it's cool to insult his fans.

That, and he insists that he's not a fantasy author, because fantasy books simply can't be good, right? And his books, of course, are (good, not fantasy).

Between his attitudes toward the fantasy genre and his attitudes toward people in general, I've never been able to make myself like Goodkind. Add to that the fact that his books (with the exception of Wizard's First Rule) kind of suck.... Yeah, I'm not a Goodkind fan.

^ This is why I voted Goodkind, Poulini and Meyer's may not be the best authors but at least their not Jerks.

More through editing? Are you kidding me? Harriet, Maria, Brandon, and countless more that I can't remember were editing that book, they took several months to do so. Without the original Author we unfortunatly come to conflicts of interpreting the notes, it seems there were a few points where Maria saw the notes one way and Brandon another.

Lord of the Rings is "Epic" and isn't near as long as WoT. Not too mention you have no understanding of how the market works, or who RJ was as a person (money isn't important on your deathbed and he STILL kept writing).  If WoT was shorter he wouldn't have lost a large percentage of his fan base... and he did i.e. my father after crown of swords.

Yes LotR is short but it seems to be a continuing work under Tolkien's Son. That doesn't change the fact that Brandon is planing a 10 book epic himself. It's hard to judge if RJ was milking the series or merely continuing to add content to a story he felt it needed. He may have lost fans but evidently not enough since his books after Crown of Swords consistently got New York Times best sellers. I thought books 1-7 were great and even enjoyed 8&9 greatly, the only one I consider weak was CoT. I don't think this series could ever have been a trilogy or even a six book series, this struggle was just too big for that small amount of books.

Tolkien's characters main plight was walking to a Volcano, while the rest of the cast ran around keeping Suaron's attention away from the ring bearer. Rather a simple plot when compared to WoT, or even Brandon''s work for that matter.