[elric01]

I agree with everything bsom80 said. I love to picture every scene in my mind and give a face to every character but that is exactly what I dislike about these books. The fact that I have to try and manufacture a face for the one thousand characters he comes up with is difficult for me to do. I just cant create a new person's image for the thousands of characters he has. I get them confused and forget what they were doing after thousands of pages of talking and after he forgets about characters for a thousand pages or more. And how many times does he think I want to picture in my mind yet another woman spanking another woman? This might have been cool if I was 15 but alas I am not 15 anymore. I get sick of these women constantly spanking and giving pennances and whippings and constantly threatening each other and being mean to each other without fail or even without a good reason. Here is a typical example of how many times spankings are mentioned on ONE PAGE.
"Last night, she made my bath water too hot, and she is so welted, I had to order the soles of her feet beaten. That is not very effective when she must be left able to walk."
"Anyone passing Therava's tent was likely to hear Galina howling for mercy inside."
"Every day Therava added to the bands of welts that striped Galina from her shoulders to the backs of her knees. Whenever one band began to heal, Therava refreshed it."
"So long as the faintest bruise remains on her face, the rest of her will be bruised as well. I have left the front of her unmarked so she can be punished for other misdeeds." Galina began trembling. Silent tears leaked down her cheeks.
"Faile suppressed a sigh. Her last switching had been for a sigh at the wrong moment."
All of this is not something I enjoy dwelling on or picturing in my mind day in and day out. Did this guy have a fetish for women spanking each other? If so leave it at home. And Mr. Jordan has a bad habit of taking something and repeating it over and over til I am sick of it. For example in book 11 there are weevils in the wheat and he will go on and on about looking for weevils and eating weevils and winnowing the wheat for weevils until you are sick of hearing the freaking word WEEVIL! Every single time he mentions the Seanchan he will say they have helmets that look like insect heads. After reading 11 books and after him mentioning it for the 1000th time I understand perfectly that they wear those insect helmets. It is like he thinks somebody just picked up the 10th book in a series and he has to explain everything over again every chapter. I get it they have insect heads, Jeez! And don't even mention all the clothing descriptions. I get so tired of trying to imagine the number of beads that line Egwene's dress and how many birds and stars Cadsuanne wears in her hair. Oh God that is so boring! Meanwhile the plot has not advanced at all and nothing has really happened at all. And he will say a hundred times "She stood with her arms folded beneath her breasts." Women have breasts, I get it! How many times do I need to picture in my mine Nynaeve jerking her braid? He is so repetitive it gets old.