I don’t even disagree with you about the drag. However, books 1 and 2 are some of the best modern fantasy you can find. I knew the show was in trouble when it started making major changes to the story right out of the gates.
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Doubletake2121@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe author’s story was also pretty terrible. I re-read it again last year, and man does it drag. You could most likely cut it in half and make a better series.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I just finished the series last week after starting it in January 2024. It’s a pretty damn good epic. Yes there are slower parts, but on the whole it’s very enjoyable and well paced. Not sure what you’d expect from a 14 book series. You’re also full of it if you say the 12000 page series is terrible, yet you also reread it last year. That is nonsensical to put that much time and effort into something that’s ‘pretty terrible’.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
WoT is not “Well paced”. It’s egregiously slow and long winded. Robert Jordan should have been beaten with a chair for the bullshit he put his readers through.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s a 14 book epic, that pretty much comes with the territory. You get the details, world building, character’s nuance, etc. it’s not all moving the plot forward.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
It would have lost nothing if it were trimmed to 7 books. It’s only 14 because no one smacked the author with a ruler.
Doubletake2121@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I was a big fan as a child, but I haven’t re-read them in about 15 years or so, since Sanderson finished it. Whenever that was.
It’s not at all well paced. That’s some fandom cope if I’ve ever heard it, good lord.
I can tell you 100% that I don’t plan on reading it again. It’s not worth it.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
You could potentially cut a lot, yeah. But this wasn’t cutting, this was just plain rewriting.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Considering the original author had his wife do his editing, rewriting is hardly the worst thing that could have happened.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
She was a professional editor and worked on his books before they started dating. She’s also been the editor for several other classic and famous series’. So unless you’re implying that her feminity is cause for lesser quality, I fail to see the relevance.
geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Wasn’t implying anything about her gender causing an issue and weird that you chose to go there. My point was that an editor is supposed to provide direct, impartial, and sometimes cutting feedback to an author. In addition to providing basic copy editing, an editor on a novel has to be able to call an author on their BS, and I don’t believe she did that in editing her husband’s books.
The writing is repetitive, long-winded, and self-indulgent. The novels have absolutely no sense of pacing and plotting is not done with any sort of strategy. She may have been a fantastic editor, but her husband’s works were poorly edited, and the fact that she was his wife I think speaks volumes as to why.