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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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.
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Dennis
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Yeah I agree with what everybody's saying, it's a mammoth of a series. I've read them back to back up to this one (with a brief break between 10 and 11 for the rather excellent Lies of Locke Lamorra) and it's been a bit of a labour of love.
To be honest, you'll struggle if you take too many breaks because there are so many characters ( although it only follows about a dozen closely) that you inevitably get names confused. Especially considering the way most of them are in almost every book!
It's worth sticking with right the way through, but I now have a hell of wait for the final conclusion. Halfway through 11 now as I type this, and struggling to figure out how the massive conclusion to 11 books of build up is going to be achieved with just number 12.