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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Apok" data-source="post: 639054" data-attributes="member: 1969">*sigh*Well, I was going to pick it up (B&N had it for 30% off) but if it's just more of Jordan's literary masturbating then I won't bother.  I seriously think Jordan has written himself into something he can't get out of.  He can't focus the story without breaking the internal consistency and some of his metaplots (the whole ta'veren concept and a few others) but if he continues to write the way he does, this series will never get finished.  Something drastic needs to happen to kill off about 75% of these tertiary characters, then we can forget about them and go on with the actual plot.  Does anyone else think that Jordan seems to be writing these books more as a day-by-day journal account rather than an epic story?  Hell, even LotR glossed over some facts, but Jordan appears determined to tell you everything that's going on minute-by-minute.  This isn't a story anymore, it's the Wheel of Time Daily Newspaper!</blockquote>