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Wheel of Time has one over ASOIAF in that it had an actual conclusion. The unplanned nature of that series hit a wall after book 3, with books 4+5 forming a meandering story with no climax or payoff. Even after finishing Book 1 I was concerned with how they could reconcile the low-fantasy political-intrigue with the high-fantasy dragons and ice & zombies. Given the reception to the TV show's ending the answer is probably not very well. WOT at least doesn't suffer under the expectation of subverting convention. There WILL be a final battle at the end of the road so in the meantime we must complete all the sidequests and loyalty missions to chance a better outcome. The longest loving story ever finished in 23 years and yet ASOIAF is still fobbing readers off with side-material instead of progress in an even longer time.
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Is it a common consensus that books 8 to 10 could have been one volume, and every volume could be 300 pages shorter? A lot of characters will be cut or combined, though I hope that rapist Eamon Valda stays because he's got the same first name as me.
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