The Wheel of Time series
Robert Jordan
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Review:
The Wheel of Time series is fun, but I get frustrated by it
often. It goes on for so long, and there is lots of stuff that
happens that seems unnecessary. It isn't clear to me that
anything is gained by having the plot drag out for so long. I
suspect that part of it is to give the feeling of being part of
the saga - not finding out what happens right away but having to
live through lots of daily stuff until things happen and seeing
that everything comes in its own time. But I sometimes feel like
we're being made to wait so that it will be a saga, rather than
it being necessarily a saga and the waiting being inherent to the
plot. There are also specific things which bug me about the
books, but they are only relevant to people who have read the
books...