Hard to believe it was just 5 seasons...
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Mar 2006
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Sep 24, 2007, 09:04 AM
Local time: Sep 24, 2007, 08:04 AM
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Well, if you think that only Tolkien's works should be allowed to exist and no one else should be allowed to write fantasy, then I guess you could complain about Jordan. I just came back from a weekend jaunt to the bookstore and browsed quite a few fantasy novels, and compared to the thousands of hack fantasy books out there, including the myriad world-sharing write-for-hire (not saying those are "de facto" hack works, but many are), Jordan is Shakespeare.
WoT has been enjoyable at times, has dragged on at other times. If book 1 is the Lord of the Rings, book 5 is Dune. Certainly it is somewhat derivative, but at other times it is excitingly original, grasping at genre opportunities that few would dare. I can't imagine what it would feel like to be so close to the conclusion of your life's work, and then pass away just before the conslusion.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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