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that fact that you are probably right makes it worse random thoughts Send a noteboard - 05/06/2017 03:44:23 PM

A little bit in t a book to set up a future series is fine. I have been reading the expanse and they (the writers is really two people) puts an occasional side story that set up shorts story the add to the series. The side stories develop existing characters and have value on their own, not to mention they are relatively short.

Jordan on the other hand went on thousand page rants with side stories that did virtually nothing to develop the existing characters or advance the main story line. That is why I was tired of the series and only finished because I had invested to much time not to finish. Still not sure that was the best choice.

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Which Part of WoT Plot Did You Dislike the Most? MrFarstrider - 30/05/2017 02:49:26 AM 1372 Views
The internecine warfare in the White Tower should have taken up about one fifth the size it did. *NM* Ghavrel - 30/05/2017 06:01:47 AM 442 Views
It felt like such little payoff for staying devoted to such a terrible storyline MrFarstrider - 31/05/2017 12:33:43 AM 665 Views
The real annoyance with the WT stuff. Is not knowing if it never meant much, or just died with RJ. Dunstan - 31/05/2017 06:36:57 PM 699 Views
Almost everything to do with the Seanchan. *NM* Mix - 30/05/2017 07:51:53 AM 888 Views
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Pretty much all the female story lines. random thoughts - 30/05/2017 01:38:39 PM 763 Views
Demandred not being Taim. Tom - 30/05/2017 02:53:40 PM 680 Views
Naw, dude, he was totally in, uh... Shara the while time. Obviously. Ghavrel - 30/05/2017 05:35:15 PM 718 Views
Totally agreed. Tom - 30/05/2017 06:52:00 PM 646 Views
Perrin rescuing Faile HyogaRott - 30/05/2017 04:11:10 PM 773 Views
A Sanderson book, not a Jordan book, just as a point of fact Cannoli - 30/05/2017 11:55:53 PM 800 Views
The subplot was almost the entirety of Crossroads of Twilight... *NM* HyogaRott - 01/06/2017 01:23:21 PM 463 Views
COT may have been the worst novel ever written..... *NM* Anonymous2000 - 01/06/2017 05:17:27 PM 396 Views
Have you read Vellum by Hal Duncan? It was worse. *NM* Tom - 01/06/2017 09:03:08 PM 413 Views
Ah crap. Seriously? I guess I shouldn't feel bad for having it in my to read pile for so long then. *NM* Chas - 03/06/2017 01:08:02 AM 424 Views
Nah, that "award winning" SciFi novel by sombody Adams that either Tom of Cannoli convinced me to re HyogaRott - 02/06/2017 12:56:53 PM 722 Views
There is no way I recommended a sci-fi book to someone, other than Lem's Solaris. Tom - 03/06/2017 07:25:00 PM 599 Views
Anything that had to do... Jeordam - 30/05/2017 04:45:27 PM 682 Views
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Yeah....too bad it took Jeordam - 31/05/2017 04:27:49 PM 735 Views
Anything involving the political machinations of Cannoli's favorite character damookster - 30/05/2017 06:59:31 PM 681 Views
Most plotlines involving Egwene after book three or so. And yeah, much of Perrin's storyline. Legolas - 30/05/2017 07:15:26 PM 708 Views
So, you mean most of the Aes Sedai stuff? *NM* Ghavrel - 30/05/2017 08:22:05 PM 430 Views
Nah, there was plenty that wasn't about her. Legolas - 30/05/2017 09:06:49 PM 685 Views
I always thought making Egwene was a silly contrived story line random thoughts - 30/05/2017 09:27:01 PM 680 Views
Am I the only person who didn't hate Egwene? nossy - 30/05/2017 11:46:47 PM 644 Views
I didn't Cannoli - 30/05/2017 11:52:05 PM 958 Views
What is happening? nossy - 31/05/2017 10:43:52 AM 857 Views
I didn't mind her early on MrFarstrider - 31/05/2017 12:14:19 AM 745 Views
But... Her #1 goal since the very first page she is on is to NOT be "a innkeeper's daughter". Dunstan - 31/05/2017 06:14:18 AM 692 Views
That's true, but she WAS an innkeepers daughter. nossy - 31/05/2017 10:49:04 AM 635 Views
Which simply made her all the more reckless in attempting to NOT be until she wasn't. *NM* Dunstan - 31/05/2017 04:22:46 PM 427 Views
It was the direction he took her. random thoughts - 31/05/2017 03:04:21 AM 510 Views
That's almost true of every character nossy - 31/05/2017 10:52:55 AM 625 Views
That is true random thoughts - 31/05/2017 12:20:47 PM 696 Views
I kind of feel like Seanchan was setting up for the "outrigger" stories. MrFarstrider - 31/05/2017 10:46:53 PM 719 Views
that fact that you are probably right makes it worse random thoughts - 05/06/2017 03:44:23 PM 654 Views
I actively liked her until probably around PATH OF DAGGERS. Then I was just vaguely indifferent. Ghavrel - 31/05/2017 04:15:37 AM 709 Views
I'm always impressed by people who can keep them straight. nossy - 31/05/2017 10:59:09 AM 660 Views
There are resources that can help with that. Cannoli - 31/05/2017 06:16:47 PM 852 Views
Your geekery knows no bounds. nossy - 31/05/2017 06:37:42 PM 633 Views
I didn't at the start. Bergioyn - 11/06/2017 09:24:38 PM 779 Views
Luca's circus...I mean "menagerie" Cannoli - 30/05/2017 11:53:54 PM 811 Views
The return/rescue of Moiraine.....totally pointless in the end Anonymous2000 - 31/05/2017 12:52:27 PM 643 Views
It treated her as somekind of Wheel high priestess... And everone just went with it... Dunstan - 31/05/2017 07:12:40 PM 659 Views
Took forever to think of full on "plot" I'd go so far as to DISLIKE. Then it hit me. "Pink ribbons". Dunstan - 01/06/2017 06:28:13 AM 632 Views
The ludicrous amounts of subplots and minor characters. Bergioyn - 11/06/2017 09:32:32 PM 802 Views
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