25th January 2004, 8:53 PM
I got Crossroads of Twilight a week and a half ago, and just finished it recently. Another great book in this fantasy series that is certainly right near the top of the list of the best fantasy serieses of all time... slow? Yeah. Fine. I don't care. I love Jordan's writing style and I think it's great... I love the detail. You could make them shorter and speed things up but you'd lose so much of the detail that makes the books so good... I wouldn't want it that way. So yes, in CoT things don't go too far and you're left at the end with everyone's story hanging, some in dramatic points and some in similar ones to where they started the book, and knowing that it'll be some time until it continues...
Now with some authors I do get tired of the 800 page books and endless detal (Tad Williams (Otherland and Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn serieses) I think could stand to shorten up and/or focus a bit better, as I love his books but find reading them for the time it takes tough... and I think that Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth) just needs to cut back on the pages a bit... he just drags in places, I think...), but Robert Jordan? For some reason I don't feel that at all with him. I love how much detail he's got in his.
That of course is the biggest problem, the wait between volumes... it's cruel I say... and of course by the time you get to the next book it's been years and you've forgotten so much that you need to keep looking back or trying to remember who people were or what they were doing...
Anyway, I don't want it to end anytime soon. I do want him to finish the series someday, obviously, but not anytime soon. It's far too good, and too detailed... yes things are building for sure but there is so much potential for the future... and I love to see what happens. I like serieses that go on and on and on... if the quality stays up it's better of course, though. Take Dune for example. I liked the six old original books but IMO the new ones (by a different author since Frank Herbert is dead) just aren't the same. Not nearly as good, I have to say.
Now with some authors I do get tired of the 800 page books and endless detal (Tad Williams (Otherland and Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn serieses) I think could stand to shorten up and/or focus a bit better, as I love his books but find reading them for the time it takes tough... and I think that Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth) just needs to cut back on the pages a bit... he just drags in places, I think...), but Robert Jordan? For some reason I don't feel that at all with him. I love how much detail he's got in his.
That of course is the biggest problem, the wait between volumes... it's cruel I say... and of course by the time you get to the next book it's been years and you've forgotten so much that you need to keep looking back or trying to remember who people were or what they were doing...
Anyway, I don't want it to end anytime soon. I do want him to finish the series someday, obviously, but not anytime soon. It's far too good, and too detailed... yes things are building for sure but there is so much potential for the future... and I love to see what happens. I like serieses that go on and on and on... if the quality stays up it's better of course, though. Take Dune for example. I liked the six old original books but IMO the new ones (by a different author since Frank Herbert is dead) just aren't the same. Not nearly as good, I have to say.
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