Wheel of Time - Anyone Playing?

[drothgery]

That book was rather painful for me to read. I didn't see it do anything. The last couple, IMO, have dropped in interest value. If the next book, whenever that may be, comes out, and is as painful as CoT, I don't know if I'll finish the series out.

The Path of Daggers was painful, because the writing was awful outside of Egwene's thread. Crossroads of Twilight was just blah; it was actually a pretty quick read for me; the prose wasn't bad, but there was almost no difference between the situation in RJ's world before the book and the situation after it.

 

[GSHamster]

I thought he had one...his wife.

I mean an editor who will force him to cut stuff, not one who just corrects his work. Although the thought that maybe she does force him to cut material is mind-boggling.

Well, I didn't read the short story / novella, but I own, and have read, the book. I thought the book was pretty good.

The novella is much better. It is tight, focused, and even elegant. In many ways I think it is the best piece of Jordan's work that I have read. And for him to take that gem, and fluff it out for no reason...it was kind of sad, really.

 

[drothgery]

The novella is much better. It is tight, focused, and even elegant. In many ways I think it is the best piece of Jordan's work that I have read. And for him to take that gem, and fluff it out for no reason...it was kind of sad, really.

If there's any difference between the second part of the novel and the novella, you'd have to be reading very, very carefully to catch it. The first part of the novel is just crack for White Tower junkies, but it's actually quite useful for anyone who wants to play an Accepted in a WoT game.

 

[Marcantony]

Read Terry Goodkind's novels. Very similar storylines to WOT early on with the big difference being that his are actually resolved. Each novel follows on from the last one but.. each story is also self contained with only a minimal amount of subplots continuing on.

 

[drothgery]

Read Terry Goodkind's novels. Very similar storylines to WOT early on with the big difference being that his are actually resolved. Each novel follows on from the last one but.. each story is also self contained with only a minimal amount of subplots continuing on.

I'm sticking with Jordan's originals, no matter how many complaints I've got with two of the last three novels. I don't want any gratuitous S&M in my Wheel of Time, thanks.

 

[Captain Tagon]

I'm sticking with Jordan's originals, no matter how many complaints I've got with two of the last three novels. I don't want any gratuitous S&M in my Wheel of Time, thanks.

Or nearly concept for concept rip-offs.

 

[kingpaul]

each story is also self contained with only a minimal amount of subplots continuing on.

That's one of the things I like about the WoT series...the over-arching plot and how things interlock throughout the series. Of course, the number of sub-plots keeps increasing, making me think that 2 more books is a pipe dream. *shrug*

 

[Turanil]

Bah! If you took out all the 'Rand sat and thought' (45 pages), 'Elayne fumed and espoused how she couldn't possibly love Rand' (350 pages), 'Perrin doubted himself, introspectively' (999 pages), you could do a 30-minute TV movie of the whole darn series!

Ragboy, while looking at this thread I was wondering that maybe this serie would make a good read for me. But after your post, I don't anymore.

I'm joking, of course.

Mmmmh... Really?

 

[Turanil]

Luckily, I have all my hours of all my days to do with as I wish. Why I spend most of them here at ENWorld and waiting for webpages to load is beyond me.

BWUHAHAHAHA!! HA! HA! HA! HA! LOL! (And I thought I was the only one in this case...)

 

[Malanath]

I'm a major Wheel of Time Fan. I've read all the books. I love the series. It has its flaws, but they can easily be over looked.

The last book, Crossroads, was just building up the story to a boiling point. The next book, from what I was able to understand, is going to progress the story dramatically. I can see him finishing the main story (Last Battle) in two more books, with a final book used to describe the Aftermath of the Last Battle and tie up all the loose ends with the Sub-plots.

Regardless, the next book in the series looks promising considering how Crossroads was pushing the main story (and some of the main sub-plots) to a head.

I'm going to be sad when the series finally ends.