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Originally Posted by rahulm
I'm on The Shadow Rising (book 4) at the moment.
I am seriously considering giving the series up. You are right on the money with the comment about braid-tugging, skirt smoothing and the bloated descriptions, it makes getting through the books a real pain in the ass.
The only thing keeping me going is the hope that Jordan will stop describing furniture and go on revealing important information about Rand's ancestry, the Dark One's true nature, etc.
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hehe I've almost finished book 6. I'm going to keep with the series. What irritated me a lot in the first 3 books especially was every description of a fire never let out any heat. Book 4 I think was the first one where a fire actually let out some warmth. Also Jordan was so descriptive on describing the creases on a dress for 3 pages and yet he'd sum up what should have been a good fight scene into 1 or 2 paragraphs. IMHO character fighting outcome is more important than the constant retelling of Aes Sedai dress colours.
I can tolerate him dribbling on a little with the main characters, but when he dedicates an entire chapter to the current feelings/thoughts and history of an insignificant character whom you don't come across again for another few chapters or books, that drives me a little nuts. But that said, the latter books I find the first 200 pages or so difficult to get into, but after that the story seems to flow again at a reasonably good pace. I am starting to break up my reading though, the first 4 I read sequentially but I am finding I need to read a different book to break the story up a little.