Wheel of Time

[Delora Filth]

No, this is your fault. You know I usually never venture beyond the threads I'm already active in. I'm making your sister Damane for this.

 

[Vieira151]

Wait, I do?


Also, does that not mean that you have the possibility to channel? How does the taint affect you? 

 

[Verbeek]

No taint, (s)he's secretly a transvestite. 

 

[Delora Filth]

Damane in the literal form of the word.

 

[Vieira151]

 

[Delora Filth]

Wait. Was it illegal to fornicate with Damane? Or was that gai'shain?

 

[Amagic]

Both, and in both cases you get treated like it was your sister.

And mother.

 

[Delora Filth]

Ah. **** it. It's Vieira's sister after all. Close enough.

 

[Vieira151]

 

[user1324865215]

I read up to book 10 or so 2 years ago, at which point I fell asleep from descriptions of women's hair and campsites. I'm re-reading them now, do the Sanderson books provide closure to the main storyline well? I don't want to go through the effort of reading 13 books only for a disappointing payoff.

 

[Delora Filth]

He does. And very well as such.

 

[Vieira151]

There are a few minor greviances with the Sanderson books, but he does a pretty darned good job at closing out the story

 

[Delora Filth]

And if memory serves the digressions and page-long descriptions of dresses subside to a far more tolerable level.

 

[Vieira151]

That's not Sanderson's style, so that is true. Sanderson is more to the point, which can sometimes unfortunately cause a little lack of subtlety.

 

[Delora Filth]

True. They certainly don't have the same "what nine levels of sub-plots am I missing here?" feel to them. Definitely a drawback, but it doesn't detract all too much from the general awesomeness. I'm very glad Jordan left such detailed notes though.

 

[user1324865215]

I read both mistborn and Elantris and enjoyed both of them and his writing style in general, so I think it should be fine.

 

[Delora Filth]

Mistborn is awesome.

 

[Vieira151]

True. They certainly don't have the same "what nine levels of sub-plots am I missing here?" feel to them. Definitely a drawback, but it doesn't detract all too much from the general awesomeness. I'm very glad Jordan left such detailed notes though.

Apparently they were quite detailed but not particularly extensive.

While I didn't have a ton of written material from Robert Jordan that I could actually put in—there are about 200 pages worth of scenes and notes that needed to become somewhere around 2,500 pages [Books 12-14 by Sanderson total 2,556 pages]—a lot of those 200 pages were summaries of scenes he wanted. Robert Jordan wrote by instinct. He was what we called a discovery writer, so what was handed to me was a big pile of half-finished scenes or paragraphs where he wrote, "Well, I am either going to do this, this, or this. I was thinking of this, but it could be this." Yes, cracking an ending is hard, and the Wheel of Time had a lot of loose threads. My job was to take all those threads and weave them into an ending, which was a real challenge.

 

[Delora Filth]

Poor bastard.

 

[user1324865215]

The magic system is really original and the setpieces were amazing, one of the best books I've ever read.