From lparkinson@mindspring.com Mon Jan 29 11:10:09 2001 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:41:32 GMT From: Laura M. Parkinson Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Winter's Heart Thoughts (Chapters 27-end) - no SPOILERS jimhill@swcp.com (Jim Hill) rhapsodized in blue: >Laura M. Parkinson wrote: >>Okay, spoilers follow.... > >Not anymore. > >>I came to the end and just... wow. Wow. After two or so books of >>barely *anything* happening, and somewhat low expectations... wow. We >>can finally feel the story moving ahead again, quickly. Just... wow. > > > >Are you serious? Dick-all happened aside from two chapters, one in >mid-book and one featuring the ObJordanBigFinish at the end. Sure, we >got lots of descriptions of snug coats slashed with color and the >absence of good stout Two Rivers woolens but...what _happened_? Damn >little. Bleah. Bleah, and feh. (Did any of the broads sniff in this >one? I don't remember any sniffing, but I have to say I sort of stopped >paying close attention around page, um, 30.) Nothing happened? Nothing *happened*? We've gotten more given to us, and on a silver platter at that, than has happened in the past few books put together, probably. AND in a good style, except for a few dragging chapters. Since this is a non-spoilerfied thread now, I won't give specifics, but damn... what do you WANT? The book version of the Sistene Chapel, with illustrations and a free masseuse? -- -'-,-'-<<0 Trickster 0>>-'-,-'- lparkinson@mindspring.com http://lparkinson.home.mindspring.com "Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." -Richard Adams, Watership Down