Wheel of Time November Launch. The next GOT or the next Shannara Chronicles?

[Umbran]

The books were made popular by the TV show a decade and a half later.

They were already popular, award-winning books before the TV show. The first book didn't rocket to sales success quickly, as it was in 1996 and it still took time for word to get around. But the second and third books both made the New York Times Bestseller lists for their years. The fourth hit the #1 hardcover fiction spot on that list in its year.

A Game of Thrones (1996) – Locus Award winner, World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award nominee, 1997
A Clash of Kings (1998) – Locus Award winner, Nebula Award nominee, 1999
A Storm of Swords (2000) – Locus Award winner, Hugo Award and Nebula Awards nominee, 2001
A Feast for Crows (2005) – Hugo, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards nominee, 2006

The show, years later, made the books popular again.

 

[Zardnaar]

They were already popular, award-winning books before the TV show. The first book didn't rocket to sales success quickly, as it was in 1996 and it still took time for word to get around. But the second and third books both made the New York Times Bestseller lists for their years. The fourth hit the #1 hardcover fiction spot on that list in its year.

A Game of Thrones (1996) – Locus Award winner, World Fantasy Award and Nebula Award nominee, 1997
A Clash of Kings (1998) – Locus Award winner, Nebula Award nominee, 1999
A Storm of Swords (2000) – Locus Award winner, Hugo Award and Nebula Awards nominee, 2001
A Feast for Crows (2005) – Hugo, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards nominee, 2006

The show, years later, made the books popular again.

They were good as well.

Damn 4 SoF&I books in 9 years.

 

[Umbran]

Damn 4 SoF&I books in 9 years.

There was a time when the man was a machine.

 

[Zardnaar]

There was a time when the man was a machine.

Yeah to mevhe kind of straddles that line between the Brooks/Eddings/Feist era and the newer vstyle and rise of the net.

 

[Umbran]

Yeah to mevhe kind of straddles that line between the Brooks/Eddings/Feist era and the newer vstyle and rise of the net.

To be fair, he does still do a lot of work - he's done fine editing, and writing other related stories. He just can't seem to finish this.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

I can't even remember which WoT book I got up to. They just kept going and going...

I think I got up to 9. People just kept lending me their copies.

Hmmm, reading that back makes it sound like I hate them. I don't. They're perfectly fine if I can overlook the rampant sexism and Jordan's spanking fetish.

 

[TheSword]

I can't even remember which WoT book I got up to. They just kept going and going...

I think I got up to 9. People just kept lending me their copies.

Hmmm, reading that back makes it sound like I hate them. I don't. They're perfectly fine if I can overlook the rampant sexism and Jordan's spanking fetish.

The nice thing about the show is they get chance to re-edit the story to take out the eye rolling and spanking. The show can focus on the strong female characters with great arcs, the diverse cast/world, the western imperial supremacy turned on its head. There are themes in WOT that could resonate with a modern audience.

 

[TheSword]

Thinking about it, the lack of gratuitous sex and full frontal nudity may hurt WOTs chances in comparison to GOT though. Lol

 

[Sacrosanct]

It’s a worry for me. Though Shannara was only a very loose adaption.

That's an understatement. "Barely recognizable" is the term I'd use

Re: WoT, I gave up on book 4. I hope the show won't be too rigid in it's adaptation, because otherwise we'll end up with an entire episode describing the dark road. And how dark it is. And how long it is. And how slow it is. For 56 pages...er...60 minutes...

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I stopped at book 3 the first time, but then made it through the book series on the second attempt, but it started to drag at around 5. I remember really having to power through and take more breaks before getting back to the series. One of the reasons I got a Kindle was so that I wouldn't have to lug those wrist-cracker books around.

There is an awful lot that can be condensed to make the series shorter. Game of Thrones had to add stuff, and by stuff I mean entire seasons, whereas WoT will need to remove content.