Aliroz-The-Confused

(I've read every Cosmere book except IOTE, YATNP, and TSM, do not spoil these and do not spoil books that aren't published yet.  My ramblings tend to contain unmarked spoilers for the Cosmere books I've read)

Evil Me and Good Me are the same person (me) just at different grumpiness levels.  If nobody else is going to agree with me, might as well agree with myself.

Evil Me: The 496 pages of Elantris have more worldbuilding, and better worldbuilding, than all five-plus-Dawnshard books of The Stormlight Archive, contributing more to the Cosmere.

Good Me: True, but that's an unfair comparison, The Stormlight Archive is only half-finished, you can't compare a full story to a half-story.  If you took the paydirt and condensed it, it'd be approximately 240 pages of condensed paydirt on Roshar so far.  And that more or less matches the first half of Elantris.

Evil Me:  240?  That's absurdly generous, out of the somewhere-between-five-thousand-and-six-thousand pages from blahblahperson and blahblahperson-aligned points of view there ain't any more than thirty pages condensed of paydirt, and that's IF you count a couple of pages as a lead-up to I Am A Stick.

Good Me:  Oh, certainly, all that coulda been smashed into 30 pages of Osmium-density writing (probably shouldn't, but should and could are two different things), but that's not the whole thing.  There's the Listener point-of-view stuff, the Singer point-of-view stuff, that one chapter from Sylphrena's point of view, and those interlude chapters from one-off characters' points-of-view. 

Evil Me:  Ohmigosh I love the Listeners!  And also all those other things.

Good Me:  Exactly.  That's how ya get the other roughly-210 condensed pages of stuff. 

Evil Me:  That makes sense.  But you're still being generous by counting worldbuilding and paydirt that got undone.  If you write a spiffy forest and then pave it, I don't want to give points for spiffiness.  So, unpaved spiffiness only.

Good Me:  Methinks spiffiness isn't destroyed, just stolen or converted into an inaccessible form.  Also being generous is part of the whole "good" thing.

Evil Me:  The author better unpave what he paved, or provide awesomesauce without take it away.

Good Me:  Again, The Stormlight Archive is only half-finished.  I'm sure he'll make it happen.

Evil Me:  Still, Wind and Truth is over 1,340 pages and it felt like only twenty or so were about the Listeners.  A couple dozen or so out of over 1,340 is a totally bonkers ratio for pages-of-characters-I-want-to-read-about-doing-things-I-want-to-read-about-in-places-I-want-to-read-about to total page-count.  Especially because Elantris has that ratio as 496 out of 496.

Good Me:  It's not my fault The Stormlight Archive doesn't have knitting clubs and zombies.

Evil Me:  Not yet, at least.  Half-finished, after all.