At my college the roaming profiles would occasionally get rather large and we would have people who had to wait 20-40 minutes to log in. Yes, just to log in, not even to boot the PC and have it connect to the domain, etc.

While this is not optimal, and part of my job was to fix that delay, I will say that someone out there has time enough for two cups of coffee in the morning waiting to boot their machines, and if they have an electronic time clock system, that person's wages are definitely being illegally affected by that.

--The FNP

Actually, the middle books can be compressed. The first two can be compressed some, but a bunch is needed for the reader / viewer to have any idea what the hell is happening. The middle books could take out a bunch of extraneous / descriptive shit and just tell the damn story. And aside from 8, 9 and 10 having a significant chunk of Perrin wandering in the FUCKING Forests!, the later books seem to be as concise as RJ was _able_ to be. Besides whenever the 12th book finally is released, the scriptwriter can remove a big chunk of the loose ends that are inconsequential and forgotten/unresolved.

The Wheel of Time is perfectly suited to movie adaptations, because Robert Jordan could not be prevented from explaining EVERYTHING to the reader. Wardrobe, Set Design, Props, Linguistics, Choreography. All the background elements of a movie are already clearly specified. All a movie crew would have to do is follow the instructions.

And since a large portion of the text is descriptive, careful attention to detail can condense the material, while still being true to the original work.

--The FNP