LOL. Talk for yourself, maybe. You'll find few hardcore fans willing to shoulder the blame that isn't ours.

I wish apologists like you would stop and finally understand discussing Brandon vs. the projet is one thing, and it's a completely different thing discussing the book's quality and flaws, which should be judged on its own merits, not from the circumstances surrounding the writing.

We all know Brandon made a lot of efforts, had by and large and excellent respect of RJ, worked in difficult and far less than optimal circumstances. Okay, fine. It's said and gone. Few attack Brandon personally. The books remain, and Brandon himself would want us to look at the final result and judge the books, not him or his circumstances.

Most HC fans were most adamant, and very vocal through it all that TJ took all the time they needed to pull it off. We're not responsible for the insane deadlines they placed upon their heads.

Brandon largely isn't either, beside grossly underestimating how much work it represented and signing the contract to deliver the whole within two years. The rest is mostly TJ and Tor and their perception it had to be done as fast as possible, even at the expanse of the quality of the result. It's most obvious with TOM, which they struggled massively to deliver on time, and which was in a terrible state when it was published... badly edited, full of continuity mistakes and language errors, and still in serious need of more editing and polishing.

After TOM, the HC fans were even more adamant to tell TJ they were wholly supportive of them taking as much time as they required to release a better final book. Harriet listened, a bit, or actually slowed down for other reasons. In any case AMOL is already in a much better state than TOM was, and better in that sense than TGS too.

Don't blame fans for the books. It's pathetic. We've got nothing to do with it - it was out of our hands. If TJ chose to cater to the smaller part of the fanbase that was terribly impatient and vocal about it, it's their problem.