Rand sure did want to make sure people got the point so every character gets a bit preachy. General rule of thumb is if a character has a speech that goes on longer than a page, skip the next 10. You won’t miss any plot.
Yep, if you skip the unrelenting speechifying and the awkward, twisted sexual subplots, it’s really only about 30 or 40 pages. ;)
“General rule of thumb is if a character has a speech that goes on longer than a page, skip the next 10.”
LOL, my friend and I say: when you can hear the author dragging in the soap box, watch out!