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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 647409" data-attributes="member: 8704">Re: Includes SpoilersI think the first reaction of most people when they first finish COT is to rant. I spent a couple of days looking around the net to see what other people thought of the book and I found that I actually wasn't as mad as many of the true diehard fans out there. I never truly believed that he was just padding it out before but if you take the hardback version of The Fires of Heaven (683 Pages long) and the hardback version of Crossroads of Twilight (680 pages long) and you open them up and place them side to side it is just insane the difference in the the font size used. Fires had 56 chapters, Crossroads had 30 chapters. The font size was increased to pad the book out to make it look like he was still doing 600+ page books, (In Fires of Heaven chapter 31 starts on page 357). He isn't writing longer chapters, and there is no way you can say that he is putting more in his chapters as nothing really happens in them. A Crown of Swords has a larger typeset than the first six books and Path of Daggers, Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight have huge typesets by comparison. I don't have the first two books here right now but not including the glossary;  The Dragon Reborn (55 chapters, 578 pages), The Shadow Rising (58 chapters, 681 pages), The Fires of Heaven ( 56 chapters, 683 pages), Lord of Chaos (55 chapters, 699 pages), Crown of Swords ( 41 chapters, 663 pages), Path of Daggers (31 chapters, 591 pages), Winters Heart (35 chapters, 656 pages), Crossroads of Twilight (30 chapters, 680 pages). The typeset gets a little bit smaller from Dragon Reborn to Fires of Heaven, then gets larger by a little bit from Lord of Chaos to Crown of Swords and then gets huge from Crown of Swords to Path of Daggers (not so suprisingly this is where people started to really complain about nothing happening and the series getting drawn out). Yea I know it sounds like a conspiracy theory but there is a reason that people are saying that Crossroads of Twilight only seems like half a book, by comparison to his older books it is. There is a difference of 26 chapters between Fires of Heaven and Crossroads of Twilight yet the chapters don't seem to read like they are twice as long as they used to be. Winters Heart and Crossroads of Twilight combined would of made one very good book.</blockquote>

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