Isn’t Lord of Chaos half of a book?
Yes. He wanted to experiment. There’s something else which is experimental, but he won’t say what.
I asked Erica about this concept that Lord of Chaos is ‘half a book’, since it was mentioned a lot in reports of the period. I told her I thought it was odd, since now (2011) Lord of Chaos is by and far one of the fan favorites. It’s interesting, because the older fans generally tend to favor books 1-3, and Erica herself was most impressed by The Dragon Reborn . One has to wonder if RJ didn’t slow down to show them what ‘half a book’ was really like (aside from being worn out after completing his six-book contract with book-a-year deadlines).
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