Read the series once, re-reading it now, almost done with book three. Can't wait for Memory of Light.
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Poll: Wheel of Time...Have you read it?
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Starting with the second comment first, I don't know where they drew the lines as to what they allowed Sanderson to do with the story. I do know that after the first draft was finished, there was a fairly long pause and then lengthy rewrite done to AMoL so I suspect you're most likely right. I would just add that given how well Mistborn was done and looking at the amazing start to The Stormlight Archive, I'd personally have given him full license to do whatever he wanted to with it.Scrubiii said:
As for Aviendha... hadn't thought of it that way. I saw her "wetlander integration" in the same light as Egwene's foray into Aiel society. A learning experience meant to take some new ideas and perspective BACK to where you were meant to be. It proved useful to Egwene with her rise through the Aes Sedai ranks, and I believe that was the intention for Aviendha to help her be a better (if reluctant) Wise One. I saw the difference and disconnect as a result of Aviendha spending so much time trying to still be a Maiden and not wanting to be a wise one. It seems to me it has just taken her longer to "grow up" in a sense, and there should be ample time to finish up her character development in AMoL before whatever happens to Rand... happens to Rand.
captcha: "Double Crossed" erie foreshadowing?
From what I've heard about the game, it takes place in the past (I want to say during the Trolloc Wars?), but of one of the alternate universes that can be accessed by the portal stones, not in the main universe. I've never actually had a chance to play it, but it always sounded cool, if an odd use of the license.Seth Carter said:ischmalud said:i remember playing the computer game - yea there is such a thing look it up....from memory it wasnt even that bad but somehow never picked up the books....considering that ur average book costs 25$ in aussie im pretty sure i wont get into a series thats gona cost me several hundred $ to get through
The Mp had some interesting concepts.
The singleplayer was dumb as heck, and was generally convoluted in relation to the series. (You're an Aes Sedai who cna't channel, and constantly finds rare ter'angreal to channel for her, and navigates the Ways unguided. And kills Ishamael somehow. In some sort of odd not-really-prequel)
I now want to find this gameOwyn_Merrilin said:From what I've heard about the game, it takes place in the past (I want to say during the Trolloc Wars?), but of one of the alternate universes that can be accessed by the portal stones, not in the main universe. I've never actually had a chance to play it, but it always sounded cool, if an odd use of the license.Seth Carter said:ischmalud said:i remember playing the computer game - yea there is such a thing look it up....from memory it wasnt even that bad but somehow never picked up the books....considering that ur average book costs 25$ in aussie im pretty sure i wont get into a series thats gona cost me several hundred $ to get through
The Mp had some interesting concepts.
The singleplayer was dumb as heck, and was generally convoluted in relation to the series. (You're an Aes Sedai who cna't channel, and constantly finds rare ter'angreal to channel for her, and navigates the Ways unguided. And kills Ishamael somehow. In some sort of odd not-really-prequel)
Yeah, I wouldn't say "First Person Shooter"(/ Tower Defense in the MP and on a couple of missions) would be the first place I'd go with WoT license. (I'd probably go RTS myself).Owyn_Merrilin said:
I mean, it wasn't a bad shooter, and Fantasy Magic Shooters are fairly rare (I can think of WoT, Hexen/Heretic, and Catacomb, and I guess elder Scrolls sorta), but in terms of the universe it was supposed to represent, the haphazard way they threw in the FPS ammo mechanics (You can't channel regularly because your channeling was locked because it was dangerous somehow, so you have to use supposedly rare ter'angreal that you find constantly) was jarring.
I love The wheel of time, so much that it is my nick on most games and forums.
Just bought the 6 first books in english already have most of them in swedish but need to read them on english too.
Just bought the 6 first books in english already have most of them in swedish but need to read them on english too.
Read the whole series many times. Love it. Vastly better than A Song of Ice and Fire in my opinion, but not as good as the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
I made it to around book six, and I would rather pour lemon juice in my eyes than have to read any of them again.
It's interesting how polarising this series seems to be. People either say "I love them, I've read them many times and can't wait for the last one" or they say "Tried to read them but they bored me to death". Guess the world just clicks with some people and not others.
Read everything up through Knife of Dreams a year or two ago. Went to the store to pick up The Gathering Storm and they were out, so I stopped there since I would have to wait anyways. Rereading through it now and I'm pumped because in the intervening time, I've read Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy and The Way of Kings and am now a huge fan of his.
I read the first eight or nine. It started out alright (if you can get past the whole "boy destined to save the world" tired trope thing). But as it went on and dragged and dragged, I got increasingly annoyed at it. More and more I found myself not giving a "meh" about any of the characters. Until finally in the last book I read (whose name I don't remember probably because I blocked it out of my brain), literally NOTHING happens. For 700 pages, absolutely nothing happens. I kid you not. Until you get to the final chapter (and IIRC, it is quite literally on the last page), finally something occurred (one of the women was captured). It all happened in one paragraph that took 700 pages to get to. It was an utter and complete waste of my time.
You could, if you were inclined, skip the entire previous 700 pages, read the final page in the bookstore, and be all caught up for the next book, having saved yourself 20 bucks and an amount of time equivalent to however long it takes you to read that much filler.
It was at that point that I said, "that's it, I'm done". I haven't gone back since. After that I discovered GRR Martin's SoIaF, and while that series has it's own set of issues (mostly due to the author's lack of inclination to actually work on the project), I could never go back to WoT, which is, in comparison, a children's story. I like less stereotypical tropes, more gritty realism in my fantasy books, I guess.
You could, if you were inclined, skip the entire previous 700 pages, read the final page in the bookstore, and be all caught up for the next book, having saved yourself 20 bucks and an amount of time equivalent to however long it takes you to read that much filler.
It was at that point that I said, "that's it, I'm done". I haven't gone back since. After that I discovered GRR Martin's SoIaF, and while that series has it's own set of issues (mostly due to the author's lack of inclination to actually work on the project), I could never go back to WoT, which is, in comparison, a children's story. I like less stereotypical tropes, more gritty realism in my fantasy books, I guess.
I did not have the stamina to get through it. Read it to book seven or eight, got bored of the long flight between me and any kind of advancement of the plot. Meanwhile, I started hating all of the characters, my liking of which was all that kept me going from about book 4 on.
There is a line between writing a great long epic series and filling the world up with far too much padding without any real advancement of the story. I don't expect anyone to agree with me but for me that line was crossed around book 5.
There is a line between writing a great long epic series and filling the world up with far too much padding without any real advancement of the story. I don't expect anyone to agree with me but for me that line was crossed around book 5.
Yes this a thousand times this. I only liked Nyneave up to a certain point but they are all hateful hateful stuck up twits. the men are dumb as posts.Meaning of Karma said:
Yeah, I read parts of it. I thought it was really good from books 3-6/7. After that, however... euh...
Pretty much all the characters just became unlikeable (Rand, Perrin, all the women but Min and Brigette) or boring (min, Thom). The only character I still liked was Matt, and they didn't do nearly enough with him.
Long story short: Too many characters (almost none of them likeable), too many plotlines (few of them interesting), just too much BS.
Stopped reading.
Then my favorite author got picked to finish the series... That's a tricky situation.
Pretty much all the characters just became unlikeable (Rand, Perrin, all the women but Min and Brigette) or boring (min, Thom). The only character I still liked was Matt, and they didn't do nearly enough with him.
Long story short: Too many characters (almost none of them likeable), too many plotlines (few of them interesting), just too much BS.
Stopped reading.
Then my favorite author got picked to finish the series... That's a tricky situation.