Knowing that there was an ending, and actually having read it…but knowing there was an ending changed the entire series for me. When I was reading through it, it sometimes… I can see how sometimes people might have trouble with some of the middle-late ones, not knowing particularly when it’s going to end and when the next installment will even be out. And it sometimes gets hard—it’s hard to wait two or three years for a book, and by then there’s such a large cast of characters—keeping them all straight and keeping track of them all. But when it’s done, it’s a completely different experience.
I think I agree with you there, because I think that’s probably one of the reasons I was reading so much fantasy and books at that time, that those breaks made it difficult. Kind of like a television season hiatus. Like, you know, you have all these shows that get canceled because there is that long hiatus. I felt the same way. I kind of feel the same with Martin’s stuff as well. So that kind of makes sense to me.
With Jordan, a lot of us die-hard fans, we would have to read the whole series again every time a new one came out, which is how I got around to reading The Eye of the World like nine times by the time I was working on this project. Because when I’d been younger, I’d been hardcore enough to do that. When I got older, I just didn’t have the time, so I’d have to read the new one. And even I, having read the first ones that many times would get lost sometimes when a new one would come out. When Knife of Dreams comes out and I’m reading through it, I’m like trying to remember how this person is related to that person. It’s a completely different experience reading through all of them knowing that they’re done.
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