My opinion of Robert Jordan's writing steadily decreased as the series progressed.. around like book 6 or 7 it was still quite good i think. But after that it just became repetitive and irritating. And how he kept freaking re-using the same damn phrases over and over, like i about started lighting things on fire with how like in.. 9? /every/ freaking time he mentioned Vandin it was 'he sat his saddle like a sack of suet'.. GAH.
And his outlines seem to run something like this anymore:
1: Three Mouseketeer Feminazis sit around and ***** about how stupid men are but why the need to marry lots of them right away
2: Naked Women For No Apparent Reason
3: Vandin, like a sack of suet.
4: see 1
5: see 2
6: The Boyz sit around and talk about how stupid women are but why they need to shag lots of them right away
7: The Boyz sit around thoroughly whipped weeping over their naked woman mouseketeer feminazi wife/girlfriend/friend-with-benefits got taken by the aiel/trollocs/democrats and is probably currently Naked [see 2]
8: Aes Sedai sit around having mutual back-patting parties about how sneaky and Illuminatoid they are. [insert much paleo-Freudian repression and man-hating here]
9: See 1
10: Asha'man sit around having mutual back-patting parties about how much of bad-*** mofos they are and how the Aes Sedai are nothing but spoiled brats and how pimp and fly they look in black. [insert much paleo-Freudian repression and woman-hating here]
11: Cool aiel interlude.
12: See 2
13: See 1
14: See 1 and 2
15: Verin is still cool.
16: Dark One summons people to his sekrit lair designed by a crack team of Martha Stewart and Van Gogh clones, only to regale them with fuzzy dog jokes and ask them in all-caps: "DO YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?"
And so forth.. covering the last several books so far.
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[This message has been edited by Dormouse (edited February 17, 2004).]
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