I’m starting to slow down, but I’ve at least realized why (I hope). Shadow Rising has roughly 140000 more words than Dragon Reborn, but it’s less than 100 pages longer (when setting up the tickers on the right, I ignored the fact that DR actually started on page xi and SR on page 15). The font, the lack of margin, the overall tightness of the book tires me out when I read it. Had they printed DR with the same settings, it’d be over 900 pages long though, so I guess I shouldn’t complain that much. Though I would be at least an extra 50 pages into it… ;).
I’m still enjoying the story though. Maybe next book one of the three Ta’veren won’t mention how much better one of the others is at dealing with women. One can only hope…