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A Dance of Dragons is hardly filler. *shrugs* *NM* everynametaken Send a noteboard - 31/07/2011 04:43:58 PM
(I really don't know these books - I have only read the first half of the first asoiaf book. Too much rape/killing/sex. - but i read lots of forums.)

The backslash is huge. Almost everybody says: despite its length (cca. 420 000 words, if I recall correctly) nothing happens in A Dance of Dragons.

Filler. Padding.

We (wot fans) know these words. Every Perrin/Faile chapter (Why Perrin didn't die in book 4??? He is useless.), almost every Elayne's chapter, Rand's chapters (from aCoS to aCoT) ... Unfortunately, Sanderson follows Jordan's path: the last two books have many, many filler chapters. (Around 60% , I think.)

Mr. Sanderson,

the best advice I can give you is this:

I know the book will be a bestseller but the last WoT book is very important to me/us. We don't need more fluff, rehashing, summarizes, rehashing, summarizes, fluff. If you could write the in book in 400 pages (cca. 150 000 words), then write it in 400 pages.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light? beelaa - 28/07/2011 03:30:30 PM 2651 Views
It's impossible for nothing to happen in AMoL. Marshall - 28/07/2011 07:30:02 PM 1621 Views
Oh, you're so cute in your innocence! Cannoli - 02/08/2011 06:14:37 AM 1381 Views
Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read this. RabidWombat - 07/08/2011 10:24:29 PM 1219 Views
Yeah, suck it WoT-haters! We're eclectic! *NM* Cannoli - 11/08/2011 02:00:05 AM 741 Views
Regardless of how bad it is, stuff still WILL happen. *NM* Marshall - 10/08/2011 05:30:02 PM 537 Views
Re: A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light? AshaShan - 28/07/2011 07:37:24 PM 1401 Views
Actually, there is growing discontent, even among those who've defended Martin. Libby - 07/08/2011 11:05:33 PM 1456 Views
Those who says that nothing happens in ADWD really need to read CoT Zeratul - 29/07/2011 12:02:23 PM 1404 Views
Watching grass grow is better than reading CoT, so it's not saying much for ADWD *NM* Praziquantel - 30/07/2011 02:10:12 AM 517 Views
~facepalm~ Libby - 08/08/2011 12:10:47 AM 1237 Views
A Dance of Dragons is hardly filler. *shrugs* *NM* everynametaken - 31/07/2011 04:43:58 PM 831 Views
Agreed. It could be argued that more happens in the epilogue of ADWD than all of CoT. *NM* RandAllThor - 01/08/2011 01:27:58 AM 549 Views
*NM* fionwe1987 - 01/08/2011 05:22:18 AM 518 Views
That's like a pissing match between Gigli and Ishtar. Tom - 02/08/2011 04:43:18 AM 1119 Views
I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree. Tom - 02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM 1239 Views
I do request that you don't lump ALL of fantasy into those two authors LadyLorraine - 02/08/2011 06:08:21 AM 1266 Views
You are completely overlooking his point, however. Cannoli - 02/08/2011 06:12:45 AM 1273 Views
F*** you, you idiot. *NM* Tom - 02/08/2011 06:13:48 AM 533 Views
At least he didn't ramble for five thousand words before actually making a point. *NM* everynametaken - 03/08/2011 11:04:06 PM 660 Views
Are you talking about Cannoli or Joel? : Larry - 03/08/2011 11:15:36 PM 1300 Views
*NM* everynametaken - 04/08/2011 04:19:40 AM 681 Views
There is that. Tom - 04/08/2011 04:51:39 PM 1108 Views
And a direct reply: Tom - 02/08/2011 06:25:28 AM 1287 Views
that's fair enough LadyLorraine - 03/08/2011 12:22:34 AM 1192 Views
Pretty much. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 15/08/2011 04:49:40 PM 1032 Views
Wait... You want intelligent meaningful books, but you're demanding action? A Deathwatch Guard - 02/08/2011 06:52:00 AM 1213 Views
I want one or the other. Tom - 02/08/2011 05:07:41 PM 1092 Views
I don't mind a little of both Praziquantel - 02/08/2011 10:02:23 PM 1038 Views
I think the issue is conflating fantasy with the multi-volume epics than anything I'd disagree with Larry - 03/08/2011 04:05:12 AM 1510 Views
That's debatable. *NM* Libby - 07/08/2011 11:07:51 PM 608 Views
Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come. Cannoli - 02/08/2011 06:24:47 AM 1324 Views
Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come. RabidWombat - 07/08/2011 10:40:41 PM 1347 Views
Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come. Cannoli - 19/08/2011 12:07:24 PM 1658 Views
I've wanted to say this for so long Japhy - 05/08/2011 02:21:10 AM 1223 Views
This "fluff" as you call it is important. Japhy - 05/08/2011 02:54:32 AM 1363 Views
Okay I'm not reading any of the replies in this thread until I finish ADwD, but I just wanted to say Sareitha Sedai - 10/08/2011 01:49:11 PM 1458 Views
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