There are cases in storytelling where a character will have specific speech patterns that make it okay to use phrases that you wouldn't normally hear in spoken conversation (off the top of my head, the Aiel characters might be an example of this), but Perrin isn't one of those cases. And Sanderson's dialogue has always been more functional than smooth and realistic, so I can only imagine it gets worse when he's working with characters he didn't create in the first place.
Though, Sanderson's dialogue in his most recent Mistborn book (The Alloy of Law) was a definite step up, and even The Way of Kings showed an improvement over the original Mistborn trilogy on the dialogue scale, so I have to think he's getting better at it. It just obviously hasn't translated into WoT, working with someone else's characters and not writing completely in his own style.
There's also the fact that Perrin and Rand haven't been together in more than seven books, if I remember, and when they last parted Rand was pretending to be pissed off at him, so maybe one "my friend" is justified if you can find the right place for it. But not three.
Though, Sanderson's dialogue in his most recent Mistborn book (The Alloy of Law) was a definite step up, and even The Way of Kings showed an improvement over the original Mistborn trilogy on the dialogue scale, so I have to think he's getting better at it. It just obviously hasn't translated into WoT, working with someone else's characters and not writing completely in his own style.
There's also the fact that Perrin and Rand haven't been together in more than seven books, if I remember, and when they last parted Rand was pretending to be pissed off at him, so maybe one "my friend" is justified if you can find the right place for it. But not three.
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If you have to call someone "my friend" three times in a couple of minutes, he isn't.
28/09/2012 11:59:13 AM
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The only people I've ever heard say "my friend" are foreign street vendors
28/09/2012 01:19:00 PM
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I agree in this particular instance.
28/09/2012 03:38:15 PM
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Sanderson's handling of character interractions is pathetic....
28/09/2012 06:43:48 PM
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Now see, here I don't fully agree, or at least think it's a matter of taste.
28/09/2012 07:21:09 PM
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Sorry, that's just not true...
28/09/2012 11:33:59 PM
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I posted something very similar at DM. Reposting...
28/09/2012 11:46:07 PM
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I complained about this regarding the Forsaken chapter
28/09/2012 07:34:25 PM
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I've long since accepted that Sanderson uses inaccurate terms like "powerful"
29/09/2012 05:44:11 AM
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To be fair, the last Moghedian PoV by RJ might have changed her a bit.
29/09/2012 03:27:31 PM
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Yes. The last time it happened to me it ended with the taxi driver fined by the NYPD.
29/09/2012 07:05:26 AM
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The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this...
29/09/2012 08:50:50 AM
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Piggybacking on someone else's established characters and near-climax-point plot?
29/09/2012 03:04:03 PM
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Both of you disgust me
29/09/2012 04:13:16 PM
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To be fair...
29/09/2012 04:36:52 PM
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True ... He may not be perfect, and he certainly made some strange choices
29/09/2012 05:37:29 PM
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B-Sand is not a ghost writer
29/09/2012 06:35:16 PM
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Didn't say he should.
29/09/2012 09:07:45 PM
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What is it you want?
29/09/2012 09:39:36 PM
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We want to bitch about an inferior product. Duh.
29/09/2012 10:00:09 PM
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Hmm that's true I guess. Sad though *NM*
29/09/2012 10:07:25 PM
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It is what it is
30/09/2012 12:52:20 AM
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You do know this isn't his series, right?
29/09/2012 04:19:00 PM
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Do you see us going to Mistborn boards to rip his series? Part of the problem is what you say.
29/09/2012 09:57:54 PM
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Apologies for not being clear: I'm only referring to WoT. Haven't read any of his other work...
30/09/2012 06:56:08 PM
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I'd agree that I like his original works more than his WoT books
01/10/2012 06:17:33 PM
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It's fairly simple....
30/09/2012 09:55:52 PM
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Thanks for that insightful response...
30/09/2012 10:37:27 PM
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Try reading something instead of judging. I recommend the Mistborn trilogy *NM*
01/10/2012 01:14:24 AM
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It's more...
01/10/2012 01:05:18 PM
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Re: The burning question to me, after reading all of the comments above, is this...
11/10/2012 08:22:27 PM
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I have an acquaintance who uses "my friend" as punctuation of every sentence.
05/10/2012 02:47:40 PM
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