If you haven't already, you should read DomA's review of ToM (linked). I've not finished ToM (only just started really), but DomA is usually right, so if you disagree with any of the stuff in there, I'd like to know what.
Basically, the flaws that DomA points attention to (continuity, use of phrases that don't fit in WoTdom, etc.) are likely to only bother the avid reader to any great degree, but the disappointment is that, for some of us, the complexity of WoT, which was one of the things that was so appealing to me, seems to be it's undoing in these final stages of the story. No one but Jordan would have gotten everything right, but DomA seems correct in saying that the editors needed to give this one a closer look than they did.
Basically, the flaws that DomA points attention to (continuity, use of phrases that don't fit in WoTdom, etc.) are likely to only bother the avid reader to any great degree, but the disappointment is that, for some of us, the complexity of WoT, which was one of the things that was so appealing to me, seems to be it's undoing in these final stages of the story. No one but Jordan would have gotten everything right, but DomA seems correct in saying that the editors needed to give this one a closer look than they did.
Whats with all the hate?
- 05/12/2010 03:46:29 PM
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well it's a fan-site so we're nit-picky
- 05/12/2010 04:14:34 PM
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Re: well it's a fan-site so we're nit-picky
- 05/12/2010 04:18:15 PM
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Sanderson just makes him too much of a clown for me
- 05/12/2010 04:21:34 PM
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Re: Sanderson just makes him too much of a clown for me
- 05/12/2010 11:23:37 PM
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Yup, Sanderson has no subtly, or at least assumes that his readers have an IQ of 6.
- 06/12/2010 01:04:44 AM
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I've posted this once or twice before, but
- 05/12/2010 06:04:55 PM
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hater gotta hate! *strikes a pose* *NM*
- 05/12/2010 06:31:03 PM
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and lovers gotta love? Uncritically? *NM* *NM*
- 05/12/2010 08:22:13 PM
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Lovers can love and still be critical.
- 05/12/2010 08:46:40 PM
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This.
- 05/12/2010 09:19:24 PM
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exactly. ToM had it's flaws, but it was still satisfying
- 05/12/2010 10:39:58 PM
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Re: exactly. ToM had it's flaws, but it was still satisfying
- 05/12/2010 11:15:46 PM
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If you don't find it acceptable, fine, but I do. reading is not objective.
- 05/12/2010 11:58:50 PM
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Re: If you don't find it acceptable, fine, but I do. reading is not objective.
- 06/12/2010 07:17:03 AM
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Re: If you don't find it acceptable, fine, but I do. reading is not objective.
- 06/12/2010 12:10:30 PM
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Hate is such a strong word....
- 05/12/2010 07:35:04 PM
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Re: Hate is such a strong word....
- 05/12/2010 08:25:23 PM
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Re: Hate is such a strong word....
- 05/12/2010 09:07:27 PM
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I agree with you on just about everything, but have you considered ...
- 05/12/2010 10:59:50 PM
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I'd love to see a re-edit of ToM and TGS
- 06/12/2010 01:10:00 AM
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Personally I don't get it. If I wanted to read Shakespeare I would've picked up Hamlet.
- 05/12/2010 08:24:04 PM
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Re: Personally I don't get it. If I wanted to read Shakespeare I would've picked up Hamlet.
- 05/12/2010 08:28:09 PM
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Yeah, what's wrong with the Hobbit?
- 05/12/2010 09:22:38 PM
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*lol* You can still agree but not on everything!
- 05/12/2010 11:36:55 PM
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- 05/12/2010 11:36:55 PM
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I liked the book alright, but I tend to talk about the good and exciting things first
- 06/12/2010 04:44:54 AM
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Hitler told the Jews ahead of time what he had planned for them: why are they so bitter?
- 06/12/2010 12:52:08 PM
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Wow. I had no idea people felt this way.
- 07/12/2010 03:30:08 AM
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Similarly short, similar number of Perrin/Faile/Shaido chapters,
- 07/12/2010 09:59:48 AM
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