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Originally Posted by Pedestrian
The pace is not a major factor, although I'm pretty positive each one of these books could be about 200 pages shorter with all of the worthless braid-tugging omitted. Book 5 pissed me off because it undid everything it accomplished in 800-odd pages with a single chapter where Jordan putzed-out of the actual event by having the chapter's protagonist pass out and come-to with everything resolved.
Also, I hated what he'd done with Aviendha and Rand.
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It's been a while since I read those books, so would you mind refreshing my memory?
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I will admit I'm growing tired of his inability to write female characters though. Literally every single one of them is "made a strong female" by being written stubborn as an ox, and it's difficult to tell any of them apart when you get down to personality.
But my interest has been renewed, and a great many of my friends claim I should trust them and persevere, so I will do so until the next thing makes me angry enough to drop it for a year or two.
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True, but I guess if I'm
truly bothered by anything it's that he seems to have the men be put upon by the women as if you're supposed to root for the men to come out on top in the end as a victory for men everywhere. But in general Jordan seems to be clueless rather than seriously misogynistic, so I usually ignore it.
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