wheel of time series

[Legato]

is anybody reading it? is it good?

[Horde Trooper]

Dude! OMG!

 

It's just shy of 8,000 pages and I've read it three times. It is so amazingly good!

 

I went and saw Robert Jordan speak when he came to Edmonton and got my copies of Winter's Heart and Crossroads signed. I downloaded his talk from Toronto. They were surprisingly close in content.

 

I'm a total freaking wotmaniac. http://wotmania.com/

 

READ THEM!!!

[Legato]

thanx, I am 246 pages into the first one, awesome

[Frankster]

I think the first 6 books are fantastic. After Lord of Chaos it becomes Jordan's search for more money. You read 800 pages for one or two significant things to happen. Expect to see a lot (and I mean a LOT) more books in the Wheel of Time world. I just hope he has an ending for the series already finished. I saw Jordan recently in the Netherlands and he looks old, walks with a cane, I'd hate for hin to die and leave all his fans with no ending to a great (at least in the beginning) series.

[Horde Trooper]

3 more books. When I saw him speak (and heard him in Toronto) and in Glimmers he said he hopes 2 more, but we all know the chances of him finishing in two. Plus, it'll help his healthy obsession with the number 13.

 

He says he knew the last chapter of the last book when he started in 1984 (I think) so that's good. He says he's gonna leave a lot of plot threads unfinished, because it's more like the real world then. No nice tidy wrap up. Unfortunately I then had the disturbing thought that he'd end the series at the beginning of Tarmon'Gaidon. <worried> :oops:

 

Also, he has another novel coming out this year. New Dawn was a novella published in a book of shorts by fantasy greats called Legends, and he went to Tor and said, "I want to release the unabridged version of New Dawn" and I hear they'll give him anything he wants. :wink:

 

What's with the cover of LoC? Terrible!

[Legato]

did you know they made a wheel of time pc game?

[Horde Trooper]

But of course.

 

I've not played it, since it looks bad and got less than favourable reviews. People keep pestering RJ about movie stuff. There's no way these could be done as a movie. I think 13 episodes of an animated series per book would work nicely as a format. Of course it'll never happen, but it's nice to have thoughts about how everything would look (I wanna see some weaving!)

[Legato]

to bad

[Maeglin]

I'm about 316 pages into the second one, and while there is some glimmer of excellent storytelling, some of it should've been edited. I don't mean slash and burn, but a little less detail. I mean, do I really need to know that he sat in a ladder-backed chair? What does that little bit of information give to me as a reader? I can understand if the chair is comfortable or uncomfortable, but . . . eh, I better stop before I start rambling.

 

Anyways, in the first book, there are some really excellently crafted chapters, and others that I snored through. There seems to be no consitancy whatsoever, as seen with the ridiculously fast-paced ending. Here's the Green Man -- oh wait, there goes the Green Ma-- eh, he's dead? He appeared ten pages ago! I'm finding the same in this book. I hope that it gets better, but from what I've read, it only gets worse after book 7. :cry: So much potential, too . . .

[Horde Trooper]

Yes, his editor needed to get some balls and do some actual editing to a few of the books. It's kind of annoying, but for the first seven books he will give you a rundown of who's who the first time they appear in that book, which means that up to the first 200 pages are oft-times just review of crap you already knew.

 

You guys need to hurry up and finish them so I can talk without spoiling everything.

[Maeglin]

Dude, believe me, I am trying. They are sort of long, and the best I can do is 50 pgs a night (situation and mood willing). Although I'm not sure what you could spoil. I've read alot of reviews on these things, trying to decide whether or not I should subject myself to them, and have heard that the plot doesn't really move much after book 7. Don't worry: within the week (and a half, give or take) I'll be on book three, and that's relatively short compared to the behemouth first one. Still nowhere close to the last book, but closer.

[Frankster]

I think you should stop reading after book 7 and just read the last one (if Jordan ever finishes this series).

[Horde Trooper]

I hear that all the time about the series stalling after book 7 (or 6, situation depending) and I find it to be all lies.

 

Taim, Mat's wife, Perrin's whole thread, Egwene's time at the Tower, the Black tower, The Chosen, the Sea Folk, the Choeden'Khal, Cadsuane (!!), and a million things start or happen after those books.

 

I'll admit that book ten moves very little chronologically (like a week, maybe), but loads of stuff happens.