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Pacing or Plot? Or both? Gnosis18 Send a noteboard - 01/09/2009 06:42:51 AM
You have to understand after reading something from Jordan, anything else will seem a tad rushed. As for The Black Company, do you mean you find the general pacing rushed, or you just didn't feel he explored the characters/plot to their full potential? There's a difference.

A book can still be enjoyable if it's just the depth of the plot or characters you have a problem with, but it's when the writing itself gets slow that I find a book to really be unenjoyable. For instance, I think Terry Goodkind has this problem. The characters and plot are enjoyable, but the pacing is just too slow for me to stick with it.
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So does this mean we all are noobs now? - 01/09/2009 01:02:33 AM 1209 Views
You found the Black Company rushed? - 01/09/2009 01:08:23 AM 1096 Views
If you want to read novels where the author takes five pages to... - 01/09/2009 02:00:27 AM 950 Views
For REAL. - 01/09/2009 02:48:58 AM 1133 Views
Re: For REAL. - 01/09/2009 03:05:43 AM 1030 Views
yeah, try "The Name of the Rose" - 01/09/2009 06:19:49 PM 864 Views
Re: If you want to read novels where the author takes five pages to... - 02/09/2009 01:05:54 AM 898 Views
I'm with you; I hated the Black Company books. *NM* - 01/09/2009 04:42:45 AM 451 Views
Pacing or Plot? Or both? - 01/09/2009 06:42:51 AM 943 Views
Have you read Otherland? *NM* - 01/09/2009 06:56:42 AM 462 Views
me like Otherland. *NM* - 01/09/2009 07:15:32 AM 403 Views
I loved Otherland. *NM* - 01/09/2009 01:35:49 PM 419 Views
Tad Williams - 01/09/2009 10:19:25 PM 940 Views
Only partly agree (v. mild spoilers) - 01/09/2009 11:54:18 PM 845 Views
I loved Otherland - all of it. - 01/09/2009 11:58:10 PM 882 Views
~here be spoilers~ - 02/09/2009 12:57:16 AM 854 Views
Precisely what I was referring to - 02/09/2009 12:56:24 PM 963 Views
Just rip those pages out. - 02/09/2009 07:43:12 PM 862 Views
I tried reading that once. I even own the first three books. - 02/09/2009 12:53:15 AM 834 Views
Actually I have - 02/09/2009 01:06:52 AM 917 Views
Sweet. - 02/09/2009 07:44:01 PM 844 Views
Only people with an ID higher than 250 are n00bs. *NM* - 01/09/2009 07:15:09 AM 404 Views
You mean 150 *NM* - 01/09/2009 07:17:34 AM 458 Views
I'm comfortable with that. *NM* - 01/09/2009 07:35:33 AM 426 Views
Me too. *NM* - 01/09/2009 10:20:24 PM 420 Views
No, I'm fairly certain it says 250 - 01/09/2009 07:45:21 AM 996 Views
D'oh! *NM* - 01/09/2009 07:57:32 AM 441 Views
I think 112 is a good cutoff *NM* - 01/09/2009 09:56:18 AM 436 Views
I think it goes... If you have to ask... *NM* - 01/09/2009 01:36:20 PM 462 Views
I enjoyed it for what it was - 01/09/2009 07:25:40 AM 904 Views
If you have to ask... :-P *NM* - 01/09/2009 07:56:46 AM 542 Views
I enjoyed both of those. - 02/09/2009 12:50:47 AM 864 Views

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