
But he hasn't produced a stinkburger either. In The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan hasn't given fantasy any sort of masterpiece his prose is still often atrociously overwritten, needlessly bloating many passages that should have been conveyed more succinctly. The fact is that when any artist provokes sharply polarized opinions love him or hate him the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Since Jordan is such a powderkeg of controversy in fantasy, with readers falling four-square to either one side or the other of the quality question with little grey area inbetween, I figured I ought to forge ahead with the series and see where I stand in the debate. I admit it's taken me a while to get up the gumption to continue with Robert Jordan's massive (and seemingly endless) Wheel of Time saga.
