On 2008-04-17, Ce` <lalajia@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 11 Apr, 15:08, Mandorallen <Mandoral...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 2008-04-01, Ce` <lala...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > Thank you, my knight in ****ning armour :)
>>
>> I do my best. :-)
>
> Nicely put! I once got verbally beaten up by an old lady for saying
> "I'll try my best".
> She politely, but firmly, told me that trying was for failures, and
> only To Do, not to 'try' :)
I vaguely remember a small green person drilling this into me as a
child. :-p
>
> So, to bring this back on topic, was tRoA DE's attempt to try a stand
> alone fantasy novel? And if so, I'd say he did his best with the
> Losers, Regina's Song, etc
I think it was, and it failed. Had there been an editor willing to tell
him that the middle third of the book was somewhat repetitive, that
the characters were largely one dimensional, and that he should go away
and rewrite large chunks of it, I think it could have been a really good
book. Unfortunately, having written series for so long, he's long since
forgotten how to do anything in under 1500 pages.
--
Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor, Knight Protector
(Sometime) Champion of AFE
Mandy at the weekends...
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