Quote:
Originally Posted by kindlekitten
kinda figured it would have to be 13, that there was no way this book coming in November would wrap it up
|
_The Memory of Light_ will be book fourteen, as published.
Quote:
|
so sad that he passed. what a wonderous mind!
|
He gets knocked for being longer-winded than the critics think he needed to be.
But he had three supreme virtues. The first was the ability to keep a dozen plot lines and associated major characters in the air, without dropping balls. The second was the ability to give each character a distinctive voice. You seldom find yourself losing track of who is talking in a sequence of dialog. And he was highly inventive in not going where you thought he was. If you assumed, based on what you had read, that he was going
here, when he arrived you'd discover you were
there instead, and it was implicit in the build-up all along.
I understand why a lot of people gave up and stopped reading WoT, thinking it would never end, bu I don't begrudge the effort.
______
Dennis