Wheel of Time discussions - Page 23

b.banner · 12-31-2006, 03:47 PM

then you will be reading Winter's Heart next one of my favorites!

Curubethion · 12-31-2006, 04:24 PM

Hooray! You're doing PoD! Don't worry, the next book is much better...

Acalewia · 12-31-2006, 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

Hooray! You're doing PoD! Don't worry, the next book is much better...

I started yesterday. I'm on chapter one now.

Acalewia · 01-08-2007, 04:25 PM

You know, I didn't think you could take apart a gateway

Of course it makes a good weapon

I would have never thought of that.

Curub, you did say Jordan forgets about Mat in this book ,didn't you?

Curubethion · 01-08-2007, 08:15 PM

Yeah, I think I did. Which is sad.

Then again, he did have his best scenes in Crown of Swords, IMO.

Man, it's been a while since I read those books.

brownjenkins · 01-08-2007, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Acalewia

Curub, you did say Jordan forgets about Mat in this book ,didn't you?

He get's left hanging for a bit.

But the last few books make up for it on his account.

Acalewia · 01-28-2007, 08:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

Man, it's been a while since I read those books.

That's what you get for speedreading

Bout bleeping time Egwene decided to act like an Amerlyn!
For some reason I'm starting to think Sheram(sp), the Keeper, is a Darkfriend

Of course I could be wrong. *shrugs*
What is it with me and trying to figure out who's a Darkfriend?

Of course, I'm sure one of the Forsaken is among the Black Tower

I'm almost finished with PoD. Only 12 chapters left. Is it me or is this book short, chapterwise?

Acalewia · 02-04-2007, 09:49 PM

Why isn't Lindrian on a leash? Is it becaue she is shielded?

Curubethion · 02-10-2007, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Acalewia

Why isn't Lindrian on a leash? Is it becaue she is shielded?

You're so cruel, Acally!

You speak like a Seanchen!

But yes, I'd assume that's the reason.

Acalewia · 02-11-2007, 07:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Curubethion

You're so cruel, Acally!

You speak like a Seanchen!

But yes, I'd assume that's the reason.

That's what I'm told

Thanks for the comment

Curubethion · 02-28-2007, 07:39 PM

Any more progress on it? I'm excited to hear when you get into Winter's Heart.

And remind me, was the Bowl of the Winds in PoD?

Acalewia · 02-28-2007, 09:06 PM

I can't seem to keep my concentration on it.

And yes the Bowl of the Winds is in PoD.

brownjenkins · 03-01-2007, 09:46 AM

I finished KoD a few weeks back. Definitely an improvement over the previous few.

Now WoT is back on hold for the next year or three.

bropous · 03-07-2007, 03:43 PM

Robert Jordan milked this substandard tale far too long.

I am sorry the guy has a terminal disease, it is terrible to hear.

This while thing could have been wrapped up in three or four volumes. Jordan flogging the dead horse over and over and over just left me flat. I can't even prise open the pocketbook for Knife of Dreams in paperback.

I abandoned this tale far past the point that my interest waned. The series started off well, if slowly, and I was buying and devouring the first few in pretty quick order. However, the whole story started falling apart, and the hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of pages of complete literary dreck I have endured since the point of not caring, just holding on to the hope that it would get interesting again, was just me as Don Quixote tilting at windmills.

Jordan is pretty much like a lot of the fantasy I try to read these days. Too long, too dull, and far too enraptured with its own words. I would never recommend this overblown attempt at storytelling even to a person enduring a life sentence in prison. Even there, one would think there would be better uses of a person's time.

b.banner · 01-07-2008, 10:49 PM

a new author will finish "A Memory Of Light" Brandon Sanderson, don't worry he is Harriet approved.

http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647
an interview
http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/Mem...terview_01.php

Curubethion · 01-08-2008, 03:37 AM

Yes, I am rather interested to see where this goes. I hear he's gonna be very dedicated in his working.

brownjenkins · 01-08-2008, 09:04 PM

I wonder if it is still going to be around 2000 pages.

b.banner · 01-15-2008, 02:51 AM

i hope it will be i want nice long book o read!

b.banner · 03-13-2009, 10:21 AM

it looks like A Memory Of Light will be released November 2009! Can't wait!

http://www.dragonmount.com/News/

***Tessar*** · 03-13-2009, 12:28 PM

I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

And sad.

It's going to all be over! I've been reading that series since I was 12 or 13... it got me into writing my own stories more actively, it got me into text-based games called MUDs, and it's actually how I found out more about stuff like Dungeons and Dragons... oh man, those books changed my life.

12-31-2006, 03:47 PM	#441
b.banner Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Trying to keep a hold on my temper so I don't turn into a big green guy. Posts: 572	then you will be reading Winter's Heart next one of my favorites! __________________ "We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her cross-wise or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."-Mat Cauthon from Wheel of Time "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."-Dr. Bruce Banner HULK BATMAN THE FLASH

12-31-2006, 04:24 PM	#442
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Hooray! You're doing PoD! Don't worry, the next book is much better... __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

01-08-2007, 08:15 PM	#445
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Yeah, I think I did. Which is sad. Then again, he did have his best scenes in Crown of Swords, IMO. Man, it's been a while since I read those books. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

02-28-2007, 07:39 PM	#451
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Any more progress on it? I'm excited to hear when you get into Winter's Heart. And remind me, was the Bowl of the Winds in PoD? __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

02-28-2007, 09:06 PM	#452
Acalewia Halfelven Daughter of the Dunedain, President of Entmoot Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: In trouble. As usual. Posts: 4,674	I can't seem to keep my concentration on it. And yes the Bowl of the Winds is in PoD. __________________ "Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life!"~ inked Don't meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. "Don't be such a sour wolf" Stiles ~ Heart Monitor http://www.wattpad.com/user/IceQueenofMitera

03-01-2007, 09:46 AM	#453
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	I finished KoD a few weeks back. Definitely an improvement over the previous few. Now WoT is back on hold for the next year or three. __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

03-07-2007, 03:43 PM	#454
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Robert Jordan milked this substandard tale far too long. I am sorry the guy has a terminal disease, it is terrible to hear. This while thing could have been wrapped up in three or four volumes. Jordan flogging the dead horse over and over and over just left me flat. I can't even prise open the pocketbook for Knife of Dreams in paperback. I abandoned this tale far past the point that my interest waned. The series started off well, if slowly, and I was buying and devouring the first few in pretty quick order. However, the whole story started falling apart, and the hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of pages of complete literary dreck I have endured since the point of not caring, just holding on to the hope that it would get interesting again, was just me as Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Jordan is pretty much like a lot of the fantasy I try to read these days. Too long, too dull, and far too enraptured with its own words. I would never recommend this overblown attempt at storytelling even to a person enduring a life sentence in prison. Even there, one would think there would be better uses of a person's time. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

01-07-2008, 10:49 PM	#455
b.banner Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Trying to keep a hold on my temper so I don't turn into a big green guy. Posts: 572	a new author will finish "A Memory Of Light" Brandon Sanderson, don't worry he is Harriet approved. http://www.tor-forge.com/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=647 an interview http://www.dragonmount.com/Books/Mem...terview_01.php __________________ "We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her cross-wise or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."-Mat Cauthon from Wheel of Time "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."-Dr. Bruce Banner HULK BATMAN THE FLASH

01-08-2008, 03:37 AM	#456
Curubethion Fenway Ranger, Lord of Red Sox Nation Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College! Posts: 1,976	Yes, I am rather interested to see where this goes. I hear he's gonna be very dedicated in his working. __________________ Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan)

01-08-2008, 09:04 PM	#457
brownjenkins Advocatus Diaboli Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Reality Posts: 3,767	I wonder if it is still going to be around 2000 pages. __________________ Your reality, sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever.

01-15-2008, 02:51 AM	#458
b.banner Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Trying to keep a hold on my temper so I don't turn into a big green guy. Posts: 572	i hope it will be i want nice long book o read! __________________ "We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her cross-wise or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."-Mat Cauthon from Wheel of Time "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."-Dr. Bruce Banner HULK BATMAN THE FLASH

03-13-2009, 10:21 AM	#459
b.banner Elf Lord Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Trying to keep a hold on my temper so I don't turn into a big green guy. Posts: 572	it looks like A Memory Of Light will be released November 2009! Can't wait! http://www.dragonmount.com/News/ __________________ "We are going to tickle some Aes Sedai under the chin, rescue a mule, and put a snip-nosed girl on the Lion Throne. Oh, yes. That's Aviendha. Don't look at her cross-wise or she'll try to cut your throat and probably slit her own by mistake."-Mat Cauthon from Wheel of Time "Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry...."-Dr. Bruce Banner HULK BATMAN THE FLASH

03-13-2009, 12:28 PM	#460
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I'M SO EXCITED!!!! And sad. It's going to all be over! I've been reading that series since I was 12 or 13... it got me into writing my own stories more actively, it got me into text-based games called MUDs, and it's actually how I found out more about stuff like Dungeons and Dragons... oh man, those books changed my life.

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