[Azurehero]

Don't get me wrong, I like the serries, but the author pisses me off. I don't like his leisurely pace of writing. I don't like how he can't decide how many books are left to go.

I wonder if he even knows how he's going to end the serries. You all know he's an over weight sotherner. Thus he eats a lot of pork. He'll be in the middle of telling us where Rand's sheat was made and a brief, concise a history of the the sheath's maker when BAM! Heart attack.

Am I alone in my feelings here?

PS If Mat has amnesia I won't read anymore Jordan books. pppbbbttt.

[Ravenlock]

I don't uderstand why people keep saying that there is any possibility of Matt having Amnesia. Just because of where he was the last time that we saw him?
I do agree that Jordan had better have some idea of where things are going. If the next book, which comes out in less then a week!, isn't really good a lot of people are going to be ticked off at him.
Also I don't know if it is true or not, but I heard that he already had one heart attack after he wrote 7th book.
I really like the WoT books, and the characters, however I have series problems with the way he writes sometimes. It has never happened to me before, but in his books I'll be reading and get to a sentence I just don't like. I don't feel that he is especially talented at writing. However I do feel that he is a very good story teller and that he is really good at Character develpement. I really like the Characters in WoT.

[Rob B]

I don't hate Robert Jordan but like waiting for any of my favorite authors, I do get frustrated. GRR Martin originally intended A Song of Ice and Fire to be a trilogy, but now it will be six books (two trilogies). I don't see many complaints about that.

Remember, when The Path of Daggers came out, RJ may have over-extended himself-that was about the time that the Guide to WOT came out and when New Spring came out in the Legends anthology.

It does not bother me that he isn't exactly sure how long it will end being; the story will take as long as it takes.

He knows exactly where the book is going, he has stated in many interviews that I've known the last scene of the last book for 15 years. I could have written it easily 15 years ago, and it would be only changes in the wording, not in what happens, from that to now. You can check out the interview he did at amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/11690/102-1016064-5644159 when POD came out and in the SCIFI.CoM chat transcript that he did in '98, where states just that.

I see it this way--It is just getting to that point is challenging; it's like life--you make your planes but **** happens and it takes a little longer to get to your plans.

That said, put Mat in the book and I hope I don't have to read about Nynave folding her arms under her breasts anymore.

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/wink.gif

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[Lady Fox]

I can empathize with just about everything that everyone has said. I love WoT, but waiting for the books is frustrating, especially after not much happened in PoD. I'm hoping Winter's Heart actually goes somewhere. But do you know what the truth is for most of us? No matter how long it takes or how frustrated we get, we will keep coming back for more. I'm not a Wot fan, I'm a WoT ADDICT! Yes fellow fantasy fans, I need a 12 step program for Jordan addiction. Ha! :-)

And hay, Azurehero!! There's nothing wrong with being an overweight southerner. I'm an overweight southerner right down to wagon I'm draggin' behind me. We know how to eat good down here in NC. :->

[Macros]

LOL. Am I the only one that busted his gut reading the first post. I agree with a lot of what people have posted. Jordan may know the last scene of the last book but obviously, he's a little confused as to how to get there. Personally, I'm going to wait until he ends the series to pick it up again.

[Azurehero]

I'm thinkin Macros has the right idea about waiting for a CONCLUSIVE ENDING. I'm not just saying that 'cause he thought I was funny.

Sorry about the fat southerner thing Ms. Fox. Of course there is nothing wrong with good eating.

Or pork induced heart attacks for that matter.

PS I think ol' Jordan's running out of Forsaken to "kill" at the end of the books. . .

[FitzChivalry]

Heh, not really, for every forsaken killed there is a new one reborn in a new body.

[Macros]

FitzChivalry, now that is just plain scary. What if he keeps writing but the forsaken never die. We could be stuck in an endless loop here.

[FitzChivalry]

Am i the only one who hears in his mind "Welcome again to The Young and The Rest.. err.. Wheel of Time" everytime he looks at a wot book?

[Azurehero]

At least Lan, resident bad-ass is back. Even though we all know that Morraine isn't dead for whatever reason.

Asmodean was the coolest Foresaken. I sure would like to know how he died. Speculation anyone?

"Will Rand find happiness with any of the THREE women who love him? Will Perrin shave his manly beard? Will the wall that fell on Mat give him amnesia? Tune in next time, for As The Wheel of Time Turns."