The thing I most admire about Brandon Sanderson is his immense dedication to the craft of writing. Listen to his podcast ("Writing Excuses"), read the things he's written on his blog and on twitter; he has a great passion for writing, and additionally he has been a fan of the Wheel of Time since Eye of the World. How many of us can say the same? Beside that, any minor quibbles I may have with his style aren't worth fretting over.
Ultimately, we have to recognize that Robert Jordan left us before he could finish writing the series, and no one could possibly write the ending as authentically as he would have had he lived. You have to think of TGS, ToM, and aMoL as somehow separate from the books Robert Jordan might have written. That way it hopefully won't bother you so much, and you can enjoy what we do have.
Personally, Mat's letter to Elayne made me laugh out loud, and I guess it doesn't really matter to me whether Sanderson or Jordan wrote it.
The Change of Mat's Personality from Brandon Sanderson
in Wheel of Time Books
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The thing I most admire about Brandon Sanderson is his immense dedication to the craft of writing. Listen to his podcast ("Writing Excuses"), read the things he's written on his blog and on twitter; he has a great passion for writing, and additionally he has been a fan of the Wheel of Time since Eye of the World. How many of us can say the same? Beside that, any minor quibbles I may have with his style aren't worth fretting over.
Ultimately, we have to recognize that Robert Jordan left us before he could finish writing the series, and no one could possibly write the ending as authentically as he would have had he lived. You have to think of TGS, ToM, and aMoL as somehow separate from the books Robert Jordan might have written. That way it hopefully won't bother you so much, and you can enjoy what we do have.
Personally, Mat's letter to Elayne made me laugh out loud, and I guess it doesn't really matter to me whether Sanderson or Jordan wrote it.