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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8357283" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!&nbsp;I think I made it to the end of book 2 or the beginning of the 3rd. I'm NOT a &quot;novel reading kinda guy&quot;...give me a RPG rulebook or campaign setting or book on medicinal use of plants or history of concrete use in sidewalks....I'm all over that. But novels...never been my thing. I think it's the &quot;DM in me&quot;...I read something in a novel and think &quot;OH! That's cool...lets see where it goes...&quot; then it goes nowhere; it was just a simple description of something, and my mind wonders off making up stuff about said 'thing'. In short...I can't follow many novels because I'm always adding in my own &quot;background information and history&quot;. It gets worse when I've been thinking of some culture as being like Moorish Corsairs...only to find out they are like British Fishermen in the next book. LOL!As for WoT as as a series: I think it's totally doable. They'll have to &quot;condense&quot; a lot of the exposition into scenery and visuals. Jordan can take three pages to describe a room or a camp site...that can be done in 6 seconds of camera work. They'll also have to have AMAZING actors to intone and 'show' emotions and reactions that give the viewer all the information they need to &quot;get it&quot;. Lastly, they REALLY need to play up the more or less &quot;society norms&quot;...and in todays day and age, I'm not sure they have the brass tacks to do that (re: men fight, women cook; men do the heavy lifting, women do the looking after; soldiers do XYZ, citizens do ABC, etc). At least that was one thing that stood out to me in the books; the distinct &quot;places&quot; that sexes and professions had...very 'caste like', I guess.But I am really looking forward to seeing how they do the Trollocs! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I always pictured them like Warhammer Beastmen.^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8357283, member: 45197"] Hiya! I think I made it to the end of book 2 or the beginning of the 3rd. I'm NOT a "novel reading kinda guy"...give me a RPG rulebook or campaign setting or book on medicinal use of plants or history of concrete use in sidewalks....I'm all over that. But novels...never been my thing. I think it's the "DM in me"...I read something in a novel and think "OH! That's cool...lets see where it goes..." then it goes nowhere; it was just a simple description of something, and my mind wonders off making up stuff about said 'thing'. In short...I can't follow many novels because I'm always adding in my own "background information and history". It gets worse when I've been thinking of some culture as being like Moorish Corsairs...only to find out they are like British Fishermen in the next book. LOL! As for WoT as as a series: I think it's totally doable. They'll have to "condense" a lot of the exposition into scenery and visuals. Jordan can take three pages to describe a room or a camp site...that can be done in 6 seconds of camera work. They'll also have to have AMAZING actors to intone and 'show' emotions and reactions that give the viewer all the information they need to "get it". Lastly, they REALLY need to play up the more or less "society norms"...and in todays day and age, I'm not sure they have the brass tacks to do that (re: men fight, women cook; men do the heavy lifting, women do the looking after; soldiers do XYZ, citizens do ABC, etc). At least that was one thing that stood out to me in the books; the distinct "places" that sexes and professions had...very 'caste like', I guess. But I am really looking forward to seeing how they do the Trollocs! :) I always pictured them like Warhammer Beastmen. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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