I'm a huge WoT fan (well, the first 7 books really) but I think you'd be surprised by how much of the last 3 books were actually written by RJ and not BS. Jordan was basically bedbound and still trying to write, and I think it shows; and Harriet didn't have the heart to edit him as hard as she should have. For example all the prologues, that were roundly panned as a "change in tone" and "clearly writen by Sanderson" were all RJ, turns out.
Which is to say I don't think we can put it all on Sando, even though I do agree that a lot of the bits we know we're him (everything with Androl lol) were not up to the prose of the rest of the series. And I totally feel you on the Mat parts though, BS wrote a lot of those, and really did him dirty.
Weirdly the cut material with Demanded in Shara (River of Souls or whatever) was actually probably the best piece that BS wrote for the whole series and Harriet cut it lmao
I'm a huge WoT fan (well, the first 7 books really) but I think you'd be surprised by how much of the last 3 books were actually written by RJ and not BS. Jordan was basically bedbound and still trying to write, and I think it shows; and Harriet didn't have the heart to edit him as hard as she should have. For example all the prologues, that were roundly panned as a "change in tone" and "clearly writen by Sanderson" were all RJ, turns out.
Which is to say I don't think we can put it all on Sando, even though I do agree that a lot of the bits we know we're him (everything with Androl lol) were not up to the prose of the rest of the series. And I totally feel you on the Mat parts though, BS wrote a lot of those, and really did him dirty.
Weirdly the cut material with Demanded in Shara (River of Souls or whatever) was actually probably the best piece that BS wrote for the whole series and Harriet cut it lmao
Man. Hearing about that is just really sad. Poor jordan. That is dedication.
That being said im still not very interested is bs.
Oh yeah that wasn't a defence of BS really, I'm not keen on his work.
But yeah Jordan was a Great cheesy prose writer