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I thought that Sanderson did a great job with the Wheel of Time. I actually prefered his work to most of the middle series books. He was writing with a purpose and it actually felt like the series was going to end. But he had pretty detailed notes, the characters and the world was already really well developed, and the end game was known. His style is different but it wasn't jarring.
I have not read any of the co-authored Tom Clancy type stuff. Really? Write your own books, don't develop outlines or basic plot points and hand them off to someone else so you get paid. He was doing that before he passed. It irritates the hell out of me.
I read the first three Bourne novels, which were awesome, but nothing after that. I wouldn't read Bourne written by anyone else and found the movies to be truely terrible. Great books with a well developed, action based plot, and they still managed to toss out the vast majority of the storyline in the books. Really?
For the most part, I avoid the practice. I might give it a book to see if the transition is jarring. I probably won't read the fourth book in the OP series. I liked the first three books but don't feel the need to read a fourth that is being written to make a huge profit on a mans work that, I believe, was published after he died in the first place.
And I have not read anything but the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. I see no reason to read the stuff written by his kid.
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