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Re: I'd really love someone to do a good job of this. DomA Send a noteboard - 31/01/2012 02:11:42 AM
Cut out all the superfluous dress and sniffing stuff, and make a really good read. The basis of a great story is there; it's just the execution that's lacking.


This always makes me laugh.

For fun we extrapolated from one novel in the mid-series just how many lines exactly are dealing with the "redundant body language" or the descriptions of clothes in one novel.

There was material for about a page in TFOH, which likely means there's something between one to two chapters' worth of it in the whole series, if it was all regrouped, perhaps 3 chapters to account for the books with a lot of Elayne and her wardrobe. Given the number of chapters, it's really a drop in the ocean.

The length of these descriptions is part of the problem, but not the way people usually think: Jordan made them too short and too formulaic, so they rapidly become boring and repetitive, it's not because he described the clothes in too many details.
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Inspired by The Guardian, which books (classic or otherwise) do you think could be shorter? - 30/01/2012 02:10:22 PM 1445 Views
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The Wheel of Time. *NM* - 30/01/2012 02:59:03 PM 505 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 30/01/2012 03:10:23 PM 392 Views
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Hmph indeed. *NM* - 31/01/2012 05:38:18 PM 417 Views
<3 *NM* - 31/01/2012 06:01:10 PM 378 Views
Exactly. - 30/01/2012 03:26:23 PM 992 Views
I'd really love someone to do a good job of this. - 30/01/2012 04:29:01 PM 944 Views
Re: I'd really love someone to do a good job of this. - 31/01/2012 02:11:42 AM 1076 Views
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Mansfield Park needs a jolly good rework. - 30/01/2012 04:34:54 PM 931 Views
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"Could" be shorter doesn't always mean "should" be shorter. - 31/01/2012 02:18:44 AM 1059 Views
Re: "Could" be shorter doesn't always mean "should" be shorter. - 31/01/2012 04:00:13 AM 1062 Views
I agree. I would even go farther than that. - 01/02/2012 07:59:13 PM 1088 Views
Re: I agree. I would even go farther than that. - 02/02/2012 12:51:45 PM 1163 Views
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Tom. Thanks for that information. *NM* - 02/02/2012 02:10:34 PM 510 Views
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