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I'm not the most attentive or critical of readers... A Deathwatch Guard Send a noteboard - 23/03/2013 04:50:53 AM

And I read the last book nearly two years after reading the previous two, which I also read years after the rest of the series. So I don't even remember many of the minor characters, much less their mannerisms or personal details. And with major characters, I still don't remember every exact mannerism, in fact, I most likely just remember the stereotypical ones so even my memory of them is a caricature.

So Sanderson has quite a bit of leeway in his favor, since as far as I'm concerned, he just had to stay true to the spirit of the characters, and had free reign over the unremembered details. And with some characters he succeeded in that. But with others he failed, particularly with Mat. And as I said, all I was asking him was to write the character true to his spirit, fudging all the details. That, surely, isn't an extremely hard thing to do for someone who is a professional author. Instead we got a Mat that is practically illiterate, who saunters or does other stereotypically "rogue"-like things, and so on. Mat is a rogue, it's true, but he was never one to that extent. It's like Sanderson remembered Mat to about the same extent that I do, and then, using my skewed memories skewed some characters even further into the realm of caricatures and stereotypes. And when they're main, critical characters, that is simply unacceptable.

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His ability to write RJ's characters "correctly"..... - 23/03/2013 03:10:46 AM 1820 Views
I'm not the most attentive or critical of readers... - 23/03/2013 04:50:53 AM 1065 Views
Re: I'm not the most attentive or critical of readers... - 23/03/2013 05:10:41 AM 894 Views
I'm confused... What are you talking about? *NM* - 23/03/2013 11:53:16 AM 359 Views
The aliases Nighthawk is talking about... - 24/03/2013 01:58:14 AM 766 Views
Can you mention some specific examples of problems with Mat? - 23/03/2013 04:56:36 PM 813 Views
Some of it was before AMOL - 23/03/2013 11:33:22 PM 865 Views
Don't forget him making up aliases - 24/03/2013 01:31:05 AM 1136 Views
It just goes to show the tone BS continuously set with Mat - 25/03/2013 12:18:15 AM 825 Views
It may not be fair. - 23/03/2013 12:12:44 PM 1089 Views
Not perfect, but I did expect them to be good. And they weren't good. They were very bad. Awful. *NM* - 23/03/2013 08:30:23 PM 382 Views
Please give a few examples..... *NM* - 24/03/2013 04:09:28 PM 350 Views
Re: Please give a few examples..... - 25/03/2013 07:23:01 PM 1031 Views
Re: Please give a few examples..... - 25/03/2013 07:45:26 PM 825 Views
Same here. - 25/03/2013 09:59:56 PM 839 Views
Well, part of the problem with Uno IS from way back when. - 26/03/2013 12:01:46 AM 841 Views
Well... - 26/03/2013 06:02:11 PM 948 Views
Re: Well... - 26/03/2013 11:54:42 PM 855 Views
Knowing how fast Sanderon's "re-read" was, it's no surprise - 27/03/2013 05:03:37 PM 865 Views
Thanks for the well done and detailed reply.....but I must admit..... - 26/03/2013 02:53:02 AM 874 Views
Re: His ability to write RJ's characters "correctly"..... - 01/05/2013 12:07:48 AM 796 Views

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