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« on: January 19, 2009, 06:53:35 AM »
Ryan, did you read the last WOT book? Sounds like you must have gotten bogged down a book or 2 previously. I thought Book 11 was great. To each his own I guess. WOT is an amazingly complex, gargantuan series and what sets it apart form other series to me are the many emotionally charged incredibly written scenes that are just as powerful and moving to me when I read them for the 10th time as the first (The golden crane flies for Tarmon Gaidon, Gallad challenging the leader of the Whitecloaks and bringing the Whitecloaks back to the light, Mat blowing the horn of Valere, Rand fighting his first 2 forsaken in TEOTW and realizing what it means, Rand entering Ruidean, the redemption and death of the darkfriend Shienaran in the second book, Ran d saving his father and draging him through the woods in the beginning, etc...) WOT is filled with these great scenes because the characterization is so detailed. Granted we have to wade through the detailed descriptions of lots of dresses and way too many scenes of Faile to get to these great scenes, however, Brandon has not yet written a book to rival the WOT is scope or power. We will see how Brandon does. My guess is he will do well, because he is a very good writer, appears to be a very hard worker and is a fan of the series. He will also be helped because he has lots of notes from RJ and Harriet as editor so the transition has the potential to be relatively seamless. But to suggest that because Brandon wrote a shorter less in depth and hence fast pace series (relative to WOT) means Brandon will, therefore, save WOT is disrespectful to RJ and a relatively huge leap. Brandon has never attempted to write a book like Memory of light. He has stated as such many times in his blog. As a big fan of WOT, RJ and now BS as well, I wish him well and believe he will do a great job. However, I disagree with you that naiming BS to finish WOT will save the series from the ruination that RJ left it in, LOL. RJ IMWO was doing just fine and would have written an incredible ending if he had lived.