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Message: <blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3753444" data-attributes="member: 40894">I agree with this to an extent, due to my natural impatience, but I stuck it out because I like the characters so much. Honestly, though, the situation with Nynaeve, and the one with Rand not getting to the cleansing--I think one book earlier might have done it--was brought back to my mind by this last Harry Potter book, when they were falling over themselves in the woods.I'm always disappointed when the author of a truly fine story like this can't seem to shave off the dry bits without cutting out major expository parts. Even covering interesting fluff, like the history of the Aiel, could have been done a bit more succinctly. All in all, if the series was shorter by a book or two, due to editing out all of the repeats, absolutely unnecessary characters and their characterizations, and cutting the drawn-out waiting for something that you want to--and know is going to--happen, it would probably be better for it. Maybe Jordan was just trying to make sure he filled in all the loose ends. Maybe he was pandering to too much of his fans' commentary, and trying to please ALL the people.I don't mean to villify him, because I think that reading these people's lives has I think, given me a lot of insight and enrichment.EDIT<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Bayle Domon)END EDIT. Domon Bayle is a floating plot device.How relevant ARE the Black Ajah? They got the three strongest women channelers in 1000 years out of the Tower, but are they just somebody for the girls to fight? I think I would have been more satisfied with this storyline if it had been resolved, at least mostly, and had been what led up to the division of the White Tower, instead of the three Accepted leaving beforehand. Lots more thoughts and questions, but I do go on. My apologies.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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