06-14-2003, 02:35 PM
Quote:If the same thing happens to GRR Matins "A Song of Ice and Fire" I will be bitterly dissapointed.
What a disturbing thought! I really can't see Martin's books ending up the same way--he's too good, and has had more flair for character and plot than Jordan ever had (even though I agree with the consensus that the early books were very good). I'm more worried about Martin dying than flagging. A Feast for Crows is taking so long. I just started rereading A Game of Thrones to get ready for it.
In my opinion, the worst thing about the Wheel of Time isn't that so little happens (although its bad--this last one was unbelievable--not a single event--NOTHING!), but rather that all the characters have ended up with the same personality.
Everyone is incredibly petty, frightfully immature, and flies into ineffectual rages at the drop of a pin. I'm not sure, but somewhere around book five every female character turned into a personality clone of Nynaeve (about as unlikable as any woman character I've read about anywhere). A book or two later, and the male ones did too.
And wielding the power is somehow commonplace, Aes Sedai are just a bunch of bickering bitches whose skill in the power is dwarfed by the Sea Folk and the Kin, not to mention the Ashaman. There's nowhere to have a sense of mystery or awe. Just annoyance. Yet I feel obligated to finish out the series for some idiotic reason.