Book 11 of The Best Fantasy Series Ever Aproaches!

[LightPhoenix]

I did a little looking around, and Tor doesn't have a release date for the eleventh book beyond that they would like to publish it in 2005. It's very likely Amazon just made the date up.

[EDIT]

I couldn't find it on Amazon either. I would guess Tor asked them to remove the listing... it reflects poorly on Tor if Amazon says that the book will be available in January but it doesn't come out until October. Even though it's obviously Amazon's fault, people would blame Tor.

 

[Belen]

The man is in serious need of an editor that can tell him no. I love Jordan, but books 8 and 10 sucked rotten donkey nuts. He has added way too many characters and story arcs to ever finish everything. In fact, in the last interview I read, he said that he will leave some storylines unfinished because he wanted to make it feel like a living world!

Nothing happened in CoT until the end. I waited for two YEARS to see the reaction of people following the events of book 9, then the man writes a book that discusses what every other character is doing during the events of book 9!Now, I will have waited FOUR YEARS for the resolution of what happened in book 9!

Ok, just a bit bitter.....

 

[Jeremy]

I've read and enjoyed all the books. Including the latest. Having found every 50 pages or so, an important event that while it may not of the last battle, was definately worth the read. I was interested the whole way through.

I don't know if I'm part of the silent majority, or the quiet lunatic fringe, but I'd like to say I love the stuff. I can't wait to see what Logain is up to. I can't wait to see what a large number of other characters that aren't Rand/Mat/Perrin, and even Rand/Mat/Perrin will do next. The complexity of it all I find greatly entertaining.

 

[takyris]

Given that the G.R.R.M. people don't like it when people leap into their threads to shout "GRR SUX!", it seems somewhat rude for people with an axe against Jordan to come in with no other purpose than to say "Jordan stinks".

I personally won't be buying it -- I stopped reading after... erm.. book seven, maybe(?) when I realized that it was no longer doing it for me -- but I hope it's very enjoyable for those of you who do end up buying and reading it.

 

[Pants]

Given that the G.R.R.M. people don't like it when people leap into their threads to shout "GRR SUX!", it seems somewhat rude for people with an axe against Jordan to come in with no other purpose than to say "Jordan stinks".

We're very protective of our GRRM.

*hugs his copy of ASoS*

 

[ASH]

We're very protective of our GRRM.

*hugs his copy of ASoS*

Yes we are..


That and GRRM does not suck...if you think so your wrong..
Oh and aliens have taken over my brain.

 

[Rackhir]

Given that the G.R.R.M. people don't like it when people leap into their threads to shout "GRR SUX!", it seems somewhat rude for people with an axe against Jordan to come in with no other purpose than to say "Jordan stinks".

I personally won't be buying it -- I stopped reading after... erm.. book seven, maybe(?) when I realized that it was no longer doing it for me -- but I hope it's very enjoyable for those of you who do end up buying and reading it.

A lot of the bitterness towards WoT I think comes from the fact that the series started off so well and has ground to a mindnumbing halt in the last four or five books. I know I feel betrayed. The first 5 or 6 books were fantastic, an original world, interesting magic system, a great sprawling epic.

Then things gradually stopped happening in the novels. I forget the title, but there was only one event of significance (Rand purifiying Sadin) in the second most recently published book and two less significant events (Rand's Menage-a-trois and Mat figuring out that what's her name was the daughter of the moon he was destined to marry. Both of those events had been well forshadowed and fell into the category of "Oh, so that's finally happened."

The last novel had absolutely nothing happen in it at all, except that you got everyone's reactions to the events of the previous book for the characters who weren't involved in those events. No plot threads were resolved, nothing much was even forshadowed, nothing happened.

I can forgive a bad or slow book in a series, but the last 4-5 books have just been getting worse and worse to the point where almost litereally nothing happens in a 600+ page book. The fact that the quality has fallen so much doesn't leave much hope for things getting resolved in an interesting manner.

Perhaps it's time for the fans to take the series away from the author, much like they need to get StarTrek out of the hands of Paramount/Berman

 

[Darmanicus]

I like this series quite a lot but Jordan does let his characters go on and on and on sometimes, especially the women!