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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 2306 Views
It's impossible for nothing to happen in AMoL. Marshall - 28/07/2011 07:30:02 PM 1270 Views
Oh, you're so cute in your innocence! Cannoli - 02/08/2011 06:14:37 AM 1045 Views
Good thing I wasn't drinking milk when I read this. RabidWombat - 07/08/2011 10:24:29 PM 850 Views
Yeah, suck it WoT-haters! We're eclectic! *NM* Cannoli - 11/08/2011 02:00:05 AM 551 Views
Regardless of how bad it is, stuff still WILL happen. *NM* Marshall - 10/08/2011 05:30:02 PM 368 Views
Re: A Dance of Dragons will influence A Memory of Light? AshaShan - 28/07/2011 07:37:24 PM 1036 Views
Actually, there is growing discontent, even among those who've defended Martin. Libby - 07/08/2011 11:05:33 PM 1107 Views
Those who says that nothing happens in ADWD really need to read CoT Zeratul - 29/07/2011 12:02:23 PM 1051 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 355 Views
~facepalm~ Libby - 08/08/2011 12:10:47 AM 867 Views
A Dance of Dragons is hardly filler. *shrugs* *NM* everynametaken - 31/07/2011 04:43:58 PM 576 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 362 Views
*NM* fionwe1987 - 01/08/2011 05:22:18 AM 341 Views
That's like a pissing match between Gigli and Ishtar. Tom - 02/08/2011 04:43:18 AM 740 Views
I regret wasting much of July reading it, so I respectfully disagree. Tom - 02/08/2011 04:41:39 AM 843 Views
I do request that you don't lump ALL of fantasy into those two authors LadyLorraine - 02/08/2011 06:08:21 AM 835 Views
You are completely overlooking his point, however. Cannoli - 02/08/2011 06:12:45 AM 900 Views
F*** you, you idiot. *NM* Tom - 02/08/2011 06:13:48 AM 380 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 419 Views
Are you talking about Cannoli or Joel? : Larry - 03/08/2011 11:15:36 PM 818 Views
*NM* everynametaken - 04/08/2011 04:19:40 AM 411 Views
There is that. Tom - 04/08/2011 04:51:39 PM 756 Views
And a direct reply: Tom - 02/08/2011 06:25:28 AM 920 Views
that's fair enough LadyLorraine - 03/08/2011 12:22:34 AM 845 Views
Pretty much. RugbyPlayingAshaman - 15/08/2011 04:49:40 PM 648 Views
Wait... You want intelligent meaningful books, but you're demanding action? A Deathwatch Guard - 02/08/2011 06:52:00 AM 841 Views
I want one or the other. Tom - 02/08/2011 05:07:41 PM 737 Views
I don't mind a little of both Praziquantel - 02/08/2011 10:02:23 PM 640 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 1107 Views
That's debatable. *NM* Libby - 07/08/2011 11:07:51 PM 424 Views
Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come. Cannoli - 02/08/2011 06:24:47 AM 930 Views
Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come. RabidWombat - 07/08/2011 10:40:41 PM 989 Views
Re: Oooo! A smart one! She reads forums! Thank heavens an expert has come. Cannoli - 19/08/2011 12:07:24 PM 1264 Views
I've wanted to say this for so long Japhy - 05/08/2011 02:21:10 AM 825 Views
This "fluff" as you call it is important. Japhy - 05/08/2011 02:54:32 AM 962 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 991 Views
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