We're all aware of Jordan's obsession with an "ample busom." What reader isn't? I don't think we heard a single busom description in TGS.
That's because it's one example of Brandon using the wrong terminology. Bosoms have become breasts in TGS.
Bosom wasn't used in TEoTW. In TGH and TDR together it was used eleven times. As far as The Gathering Storm, bosom is used three times (never just trust Ideal Seek) and it appears that in the Chapter we have of ToM it is already been used three times (must be because they were trolling forums where people were complaining about word usage and wanted to appease the fans) and not sure in the prologue, haven't gone breast/bosom hunting there...yet!
Additionally, breasts is used four times in TGS, although Brandon seems to have only used the typical "beneath her breasts" variation, instead of adding a "under her breasts" and "below her breasts" or even throwing out a "between her breasts" which happens to be a favorite of mine (although Fires of Heaven does use quite a lot "beneath her breasts" and Path of Daggers is almost explicitly "beneath her breasts", although I do quite like the inclusion of "slopes" regarding breasts that showed up in a few books)...but I'll be honest, while reading the low breast count I knew it was definitely a Mormon author, because I know the books that damn well and I know for sure Jordan was on the upswing of breast and bosom usage before he died. I hope Brandon increased the breasts in ToM (as it already seems apparent we are getting more bosom.)
This message last edited by Tamyrlin on 26/09/2010 at 04:12:24 PM
mistakes sanderson makes that bug you
- 23/09/2010 05:38:52 PM
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Bael mentioning the Aiel Waste; characters using words that are too sophisticated or techical
- 23/09/2010 06:11:34 PM
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I completely agree...
- 23/09/2010 08:54:17 PM
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Re: I completely agree...
- 24/09/2010 01:57:38 AM
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Re: I completely agree...
- 24/09/2010 06:39:17 PM
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Oh, sh**, Moiraine! I never thought about that! The comments about her in tGS suggest you're right
- 26/09/2010 03:23:56 AM
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The entire Graendal scene
- 23/09/2010 06:27:03 PM
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I think this is the type of info that RJ never got around to revealing.
- 23/09/2010 08:46:51 PM
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Particularly the way he described sex. It reeked of Mormon discomfort with the topic.
- 24/09/2010 02:04:08 AM
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Reeked? Great word. It seemed quite in line with RJ's own dealings with the topic. *NM*
- 24/09/2010 03:42:28 AM
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RJ had great sexual humor--he even went a little overboard sometimes IMO
- 24/09/2010 11:28:25 PM
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Re: RJ had great sexual humor--he even went a little overboard sometimes IMO
- 25/09/2010 08:56:47 PM
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RJ said breasts all the time, but in a more clinical manner - folding arms under breasts, etc
- 26/09/2010 03:33:09 AM
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This stuff is cracking me up.
- 26/09/2010 06:48:56 AM
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Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 24/09/2010 04:09:48 AM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 24/09/2010 05:36:23 PM
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A lot of those are reasons why I always thought she was alive..
- 24/09/2010 06:10:35 PM
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Re: A lot of those are reasons why I always thought she was alive..
- 24/09/2010 07:54:54 PM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 25/09/2010 10:02:02 AM
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Re: Actually, didn't RJ do the Forsaken infodump thing too?
- 25/09/2010 08:48:05 PM
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Not really a mistake, I guess
- 25/09/2010 09:45:54 PM
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Well...
- 26/09/2010 06:30:54 AM
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Thanks. I think I didn't notice it with RJ because
- 26/09/2010 06:35:47 AM
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