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Originally Posted by dickloraine
To be fair, the quality dips far more in many books by jordan himself. He just lost focus somewhere along the way. But it is a good series, if you can endure his take on gender. There are bad and not that interesting books in the series, but I enjoyed it enough to read through it.
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There are a lot of book I need to read, because during the past 2 years I've read nothing but cozy mysteries. If I begin the WoT books, it will be next year.
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Originally Posted by crich70
I wasn't trying to justify the length of classic authors books, just point out that they are more likely to have 500+ page books than many contemporary authors do, and why that is.  |
I'm sure that before there was more likelihood of books being doorstops, but in terms of sheer numbers...I don't know. I think the thread is winding down. If that's the case, then thanks for being one of its regular patrons.