Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:51:11 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>samlubell at yahoo.com 03/03/03 05:42PM
>>--- Lawhorn_W <Lawhorn_W at bls.gov> wrote:
>> I was also surprised that after keeping fans
>> ravenous for more books, the
>> Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan didn't make it.  That
>> series has attracted
>> many adult non-Skiffy readers... similar to
>> Rawlings.  He will of course be
>> hurt by no movie related publicity.
>>
>> My two cents.
>>
>> Bill Lawhorn
>
>Unlike the Harry Potter books which are mostly
>complete in themselves the Wheel of Time books are
>more or less a continuous narrative.  And since he
>hasn't written the end yet (or even come close to it),
>we can't really say how good the series is.
>
>And the amount of padding is incredible.  The most
>recent book was 100% padding.  Absolutely nothing
>happened until the very last page.  The hero of the
>series didn't even appear until after page 500.

 . . .and the book is listed at Amazon as having 672 pages.

Well, atleast it allows Tor to publish new writers . . .

mjw