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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of The Fool
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 3:03 PM
> To: Brin-L
> Subject: Re: Stuff to read (rj spoilers)
>> And I would say otherwise. I'll go further and say that
> several of the villains later exhibit signs of personal growth.
Any writer, given over 3000 pages, should be able to write a halfway
interesting villian without having to wait for the last 4000 pages.
> > What grates is that the same situation keeps... on... happening...
> > for... hundreds... of... pages... without end. Nynaeve love
> > wots-his-name, and can't tell him, and he can't tell her.... for 5
> > 600+ page books..
>
> And you can't skim for hundreds of pages? I don't
> particularly slaver over certain passages either.
Oh, see, I didn't buy the annotated version with all the passages I
thought I could skip marked out for me :) that's my problem! =D
> > > He also takes all kinds of mythologies and reverse engineers
> > > them, so they are backwards.
> >
> > I found White Goddess and Golden Branch to be far more
> interesting and
> > well researched books on myth engineering :)
>
> I doubt you picked out a significant fraction of the
> mythological allusions / references / plot devices.
Well, you'd be wrong. I saw it all laid out.. blatent and poorly
handled.
> > B) that its ever going to end while
> > the man is alive.
>
> You haven't even read half of it, so how can you make that
> kind of statement?
Yikes... well, one would think that any decent writer can finish a story
in less than 7000 pages. Heck, even Stephen King can do that :)
-j-
