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I recently read the books. Have no desire to watch
Did you complete the series? If so do did notice any significant difference in the writing between Jordan and Sanderson? I don't want to start an unfinished series.
I read them all a while ago. It's sorta noticeable, but in a good way. The books start great, then meander a bit in the middle and pick back up again once Sanderson takes over.
If you like Sanderson's books, you won't have any issues, but he is a tad more action focused than Robert Jordan
It's been a few years since I read the series. Given that Jordan wrote 11.5 books, there's definitely a noticeable style change when Sanderson takes over, but that's unavoidable. I think Brando Sando is a bit more of a straightforward writer, less flowery descriptions of everything. My main gripe is that Sando doesn't grok Mat's character and so his storyline just flounders at book 12 and he's relegated to more-or-less comic relief.
Also the ending overall, but I had heard Jordan left detailed notes so I'll leave the blame on him
Yep, Mat was becoming a force to reckon with, and then all of a sudden sidelined.
The ending was also cut quite short, and I have a feeling Jordan was probably going to take more than the 2 books to finish it all.
Ending was very anticlimactic I thought. Series left me feeling 'meh' at the end, but it was a good ride.
Honestly I thought he did as good a job as possible in completing Jordan’s story. Make sure you have time to read it. Took me almost a year to read all 14.
Sanderson cannot write, he's basically illiterate.
According to Sanderson, Jordan did not left anything except a few paragraphs and short sentences (there was no outline, no ending scene - you could look it up old forums etc), ergo his books are fan fictions.
Finish the series with Lord of Chaos, and there's no problem for you. (You could read up to Knife of Dreams, there are many extremely good scenes and plot in book 7-11).
Interesting, I had always heard he had left detailed notes. If so then the shitty ending is all Sanderson. Guessing also Jordan's wife as editor probably wanted to just end the series and put it 6 ft under with its creator.
Spoilers!
Sanderson has NDA until 2023, but he lied so many times between 2008/9-2021...
Sanderson: 'A lot of these are fragments of scenes, a paragraph here and there, or a page of material that he expected to be expanded to a full chapter.'
Sanderson: 'Harriet handed me full creative control for the first draft. But going into it, nothing was off-limits. So I wrote them like I write any novel. Nothing is taken for granted, nothing is sacrosanct.'
Sanderson: 'But if it was Perrin it was me. He had nothing on him except leaving Malden and being in the Last Battle, so I had to fill in everything in between. We had a major issue that I was just doing too much Perrin stuff, because I’d just come off a Perrin book and I love Perrin, and Harriet’s like, 'We’re just doing too much Perrin. Let’s scale back the Perrin.'
Sanderson: 'The thing about the notes is that a lot of the notes were to him, and so he would say things like 'I'm going to do this or this' and they're polar opposites. And so there are sequences like that, where I decide what we're going to do, and stuff like that. And this all is what became the trilogy.'
Sanderson: 'Sometimes Jordan's notes have said two contradictory things 'maybe I'll do this, or maybe I'll do this other completely opposite thing'. He often had to choose between them, or sometimes choose a third thing entirely.'
Dragonmount: 'Hey Terez any thoughts on Jason's statement in a recent interview that the outline was done by Harriet not RJ? That was the first I'd heard of that and was curious if you knew how it worked?
Terez: We've been told several times by Brandon that Alan was the outline guy, and Maria assisted him. I think Harriet gets technical credit sometimes for what Alan and Maria do, which is not to say that Harriet's own contributions aren't essential.'
Dragonmount: 'In the interviews that were posted this week, Brandon said he wrote Egwene's death scene [Jordan was undecided about it, just as in the case of Bela, Siuan etc or in the case of Aviendha, Galad etc], came up with Lan's final scene in ToM, and that it had been his idea to reunite Rand with Tam. Now that the final book is out, I have a feeling we're going to hear more about who wrote what, and that many fans will be surprised at how much Brandon had to come up with on his own. '
I read the first four pages of the first book, and decided it wasn't for me.