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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1196389" data-attributes="member: 8704">Jordan got his fans to start with because the first books were good and had some real unique points in them, then I guess he got the big head, but you can really tell when things went downhill is when his wife became his editor, it's almost like there is no editor at all anymore, Book 7 and book 8 should of been one book (book 7) and book 9 and 10 should of been one book (book 8), he's managed to pad this whole thing out by 2 extra books (they sell for about $30 a piece in hardback, you do the math). Book 10 was so bad even us die hard fanatics were left scratching our heads, I mean he's not even trying anymore it's all padding, the whole book pads out one chapter of actual worth. Jordan doesn't have a clue where to go with this story, he's just writing off the top of his head to keep it alive and selling. Martin has jet to pad out or stretch out anything, he's done a good job keeping on track (want to bet he has the whole series already outlined from beginning to end?). I think where he has problems with this book is that he didn't intend to write it to start with, he's obviously got several parts he wanted to show in their own book but he probably has several big blank sections he never meant to fill in to start with to worry about. It's obvious he wants this book to be of the quality of the other books or else he would of just gotten something out there (it would of sold whether it was good or not, just like Crossroads of Twilight did). Heck your only as good as your last book, I got a felling Jordan's going to have problems getting his next book to sell like the others did, I'm sure Martin is aware of that.</blockquote>

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