Oh, boy. Bad Three is right. Welcome, Neverending Plotline of Doom! Welcome, Let's Describe Everything Elayne Ever Wears and Her Bathtimes! It gets much, much, MUCH better with Knife of Dreams, but, man, is it a slog, even if there is still cool stuff.
I think you're definitely on to something with spending "too much time trying to hide things from the reader." I have a perverse fondness for Jordan's perverse love of torturing the reader (see: Who killed Asmodean?), but it starts to get away with him here. I'm again finding it hard to resist spoiling you, but I hope you'll forgive me for just letting you know, the whole Borderlander question? Doesn't get solved until Towers of Midnight. Yeah. And it's really rather lame, IMHO, when we get the answer, too. Yet, as you point out, he does it so perfectly with Verin, who I continue to consider Jordan's greatest creation. It's maddening.
About Mat, Jordan's explanation was always that Mat spent his hiatus holed up in traction, essentially, and thus not doing anything of any note or importance.
Winter's Heart IS better, I think, because of the Awesome Ending.
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Date: 2011-03-03 06:44 pm (UTC)I think you're definitely on to something with spending "too much time trying to hide things from the reader." I have a perverse fondness for Jordan's perverse love of torturing the reader (see: Who killed Asmodean?), but it starts to get away with him here. I'm again finding it hard to resist spoiling you, but I hope you'll forgive me for just letting you know, the whole Borderlander question? Doesn't get solved until Towers of Midnight. Yeah. And it's really rather lame, IMHO, when we get the answer, too. Yet, as you point out, he does it so perfectly with Verin, who I continue to consider Jordan's greatest creation. It's maddening.
About Mat, Jordan's explanation was always that Mat spent his hiatus holed up in traction, essentially, and thus not doing anything of any note or importance.
Winter's Heart IS better, I think, because of the Awesome Ending.