Just kidding. Good work, it is nice you get a carrot for all the hard work you do.
But there aren't many review copies going out. I think only a few dozen total. I know of two others at least who've received them and I suspect it might be something that really will avoid most leaks until release date.
But after 120 pages, there's already been a surprising reveal and a foreshadowing that will provoke quite a bit of discussion before AMoL is released. There are some nice new adds as well, but the change in writing style is very noticeable. But considering how I often loathed RJ's garrulous prose, that's not such a bad thing, but some who complained about the shift in TGS will not be pleased, I suspect.
Sandersons prose isn't bad, just different, from what I can see, and, as you note, Jordan wasn't always the paragon of perfection himself. Sanderson still seems like a pretty good writer, so as long as he gets all the details the way Jordan plotted them and isn't flat out clumsy with his prose I don't think it's fair to fault him for not being Jordan. I mean, would you rather the story never got told? I won't say Jordans prose was NEVER clumsy, but there were a few times when, shall we say, a mouse could starve on the difference. We could analyze the difference, but the candle probably isn't worth the wick. Also, you can't roller skate in a buffalo herd.
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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
I just received my review copy of ToM
15/10/2010 10:52:23 PM
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Thanks for showing off Mr. Fancy Pants
15/10/2010 10:56:57 PM
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I've received some interesting things over the years
16/10/2010 12:39:59 AM
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Meh. I wish people would get over it.
16/10/2010 08:04:37 AM
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Seriously. A lot of people have been so stupid over this whole style thing. Sheesh!
17/10/2010 01:31:45 AM
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See, I never anticipated it being the same in the first place...
17/10/2010 03:20:16 AM
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Lucky you!
16/10/2010 01:56:16 AM
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Oh, just think about belief and order a bit
16/10/2010 02:01:31 AM
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Re: I just received my review copy of ToM
16/10/2010 02:06:36 AM
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I'm only 160 pages into it and won't finish it tonight...I think
16/10/2010 02:17:53 AM
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I'd be interested in this question as well, once you've finished. *NM*
16/10/2010 02:28:39 AM
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Has it lived up to your initial excitement on looking at the ending thus far? *NM*
16/10/2010 11:11:44 AM
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It's a surprising book in many ways
16/10/2010 03:25:13 PM
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A few questions, assuming you've now finished
16/10/2010 03:39:57 PM
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I don't read in a lineal fashion, so I'm only 50% done
16/10/2010 03:58:34 PM
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Damn. I bet we're in for a cliffhanger. *NM*
16/10/2010 04:01:56 PM
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16/10/2010 04:03:48 PM
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I think you'd have denied it if it weren't true. I call unspoken confirmation. *NM*
16/10/2010 04:13:47 PM
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Is this in reference to Brandon's 'small unnoticed detail' from books 4-6?
17/10/2010 10:35:37 PM
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Ironically Sanderson's signature looks like he tried to cross out his own name from the title page *NM*
16/10/2010 12:22:33 PM
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Warning for everyone who tends to read the Glossary first
16/10/2010 03:16:09 PM
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Certainly...
16/10/2010 03:36:29 PM
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Or it might be that the glossary reveals that the murderer him/herself gets done over in ToM.
16/10/2010 03:41:21 PM
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Maybe, maybe not
16/10/2010 03:59:36 PM
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Demandred killed Asmodean?
16/10/2010 04:34:27 PM
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Oh I know!
16/10/2010 04:44:54 PM
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Those are separate things
16/10/2010 04:48:31 PM
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Can you at least say this much
16/10/2010 05:26:55 PM
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Some found it so
16/10/2010 05:28:56 PM
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That would seem to rule out everyone but...
17/10/2010 10:33:08 PM
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Obviously Slayer has the power to block someone from the OP for three seconds!
16/10/2010 05:07:10 PM
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I'm surprised no one has commented on the autographed quote in my second photo
16/10/2010 04:06:14 PM
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Re: I'm surprised no one has commented on the autographed quote in my second photo
16/10/2010 04:25:27 PM
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Re-read that song line sometime
16/10/2010 04:33:12 PM
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Re: Re-read that song line sometime
16/10/2010 11:50:54 PM
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Um, I know that
16/10/2010 11:52:04 PM
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I know you know that. I was just noting the odd thing you hinted at explicitly. *NM*
16/10/2010 11:55:21 PM
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Re: I just received my review copy of ToM
16/10/2010 04:24:51 PM
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And one last general question from me
16/10/2010 05:51:51 PM
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Thematically, TGS
16/10/2010 06:00:47 PM
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Thanks, I'm happy with either the thematic or "stuff happening" model. *NM*
16/10/2010 06:40:22 PM
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I forgot to mention that the dedication page references both Linda and Mike *NM*
17/10/2010 12:24:40 AM
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You now sound as cryptic as Sanderson does and Jordan did.
18/10/2010 06:29:45 PM
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Ha! I actually said a lot more than I meant to, ironically enough
18/10/2010 10:19:43 PM
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