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Re: Wheel of Time Books
Though my experience of Jordan is only the first 8 chapters of The Eye of The World, I'd say his writing is decidedly inferior to J.R.R. Tolkien. In only a couple hundred pages Jordan managed to introduce character after sterotypical character and creature after Monster Manual creature, all to fill an endless stream of miniplots that, together, did not add up to a whole plot. This might satisfy the average 13 year old reader, new to fantasy and eager for quanity (I may well have loved it at that age - who knows?), but it left me (not 13 anymore for a long time) tired from all the pointless action and poor story-telling. There's no sense of history, scale or grandeur that I found and still find in Middle-Earth.
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