Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 08:59:35 -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>

>yapivy at techemail.com 03/03/03 09:04PM
>>--- Samuel Lubell <samlubell at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
>The thickness of those Wheel of Time books is the main reason I haven't =
even
>tried to read any of them.  I look at them and just feel exhausted.  Is =
he getting
>paid by the page?

Word.
Paid by the word.
Maybe he's channelling R. Lionel Fanthorpe.

mjw