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Originally Posted by Londoner
The next book to read is the last in the Robert Jordan Wheel of Time series (with the exception of No. 12 which is being written by somebody else for next year as Robert Jordan died, sadly). That series is awesome, though I have found that the detail everything is described in can get a bit tedious. It's a very good set of books, but I get the impression that it could've been a bit shorter or maybe faster paced and not lost too much.
That could be heresy in the eyes of Jordan fans, but it's just my opinion. I felt I got a lot more out of David Gemmel's books in a shorter period of time.
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I'm a Jordan fan, and largely concur. I believe the series was intended as a trilogy, but became what Tolkien said of _The Lord of the Rings_ - "a tale that grew in the tellling". The more Jordan wrote, the more he discovered he had to write to tell the story. He got progressively farther behind, and at one point Tor put him up in a hotel where he could write with no outside distractions.
I met hm a few years back on a signing tour for the then current WoT book. In response to a question of mine, he said he knew what the last scene in the last book was, but not exactly how he was going to get there. He was adamant it would
not be a twelve book series.
I read the book he was then promoting, saw how much it
didn't advance the plot, and said "He's right. this won't be a twelve book series. It will take at least thirteen!"
The final book, being finished posthumously by Brain Sanderson, will be number twelve...
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Dennis