From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:08:00 -0500
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From: "Samuel Lubell" <samlubell at yahoo.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Skiffy Book Club Top 50

>
> --- 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.

A member of my writers group is much taken with Jordan and showed me one of
his books.  I tried reading its opening pages and quickly decided that I
felt no urge to read more.   There were several pieces of Bad Writing in
his first paragraphs.  We dicussed them.

--Ted White