newest Wheel of Time is out

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Dave

Dave

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This will scare all of you.

Each time a new book came out I've reread the entire series.

I do that with each series I read. Harry Potter, The Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan, etc. I've read Eye of the World a LOT.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Yeah Dave, I do that as well, mostly because I like to have every little detail fresh in my head when reading the new novel.

Problem is, I don't have that kind of discipline anymore, and prefer to have an entire series to read before plunging in.
 
Shegokigo

Shegokigo

The amusing thing is, I used to read my sister's romance novels when I younger, skipping over the "descriptive" parts of the male sentences and really let my imagination run wild with the female ones. So yeah, bad fiction and me go wayyyy back.
 
Shannow

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Shegokigo said:
Dragonlance and the Dragons of Pern series didn't....
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Some of them actually did.

And anywhoo, the dragonlance ones i do not really put into true...you know what, I am not getting into that. Needless to say, I wasted a lot of time reading a shit ton of those damn books when I was younger.

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Dave said:
This will scare all of you.

Each time a new book came out I've reread the entire series.

I do that with each series I read. Harry Potter, The Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan, etc. I've read Eye of the World a LOT.
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Like I said in the other thread, I am going back through all of WoT right now. I have a couple times over the years when a new one came out.

Rememebr my reaction to LICD in the podcast this past weekend, Dave? How I hated Sohmers rants and "wisdoms?" His post today about Wheel of Time is actually spot on to me. It really does bring me back when I re-read it or read a new one. heh, I still pop in Days of the New when i first read each book. One of their albums had jsut come back when I first got EotW in as a freshman in college, and I always remmeber listening to it in the backround at the time while the snow fell outside. Great memories of happy times.
 
Espy

Espy

Jake;285917][quote=Shannow said:
There is a shit ton going on, and too much to explain.
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I think it was book seven I opened, realized I had no idea what was going on and didn't care what happened to these characters and had to just put it down and walk away.[/QUOTE]

DITTO. I loved the series then at a certain point it's just WORDSWORDSWORDSDRAMAWORDSWORDSILOVEYOUYOULOVEHEROMGWORDSWORDSREALLYSHORTFIGHTWORDSWORDSWORDSROMANCE and then 10 thousand words later you are done.
 
Shannow

Shannow

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Meh, like I said...to me, it picked back up in the last couple books, and is moving along quite nicely.
 
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Wyrminarrd

Dave said:
This will scare all of you.

Each time a new book came out I've reread the entire series.

I do that with each series I read. Harry Potter, The Song of Ice and Fire, Malazan, etc. I've read Eye of the World a LOT.
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Amazing, I could never find the time to re-read all those series every time a new book comes out. There always seems to be something new that I could be reading instead (Currently have around 10 books waiting in line to be read)

Though maybe I will make the time at some point and re-read some of the WoT series, the first books really were great.
 
R

Rubicon

Dave said:
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We get that all women are beautiful. ALL women. I'm convinced the books are set in the same universe as "Married With Children" in that all women there are hotties. Even the old ones have a "timeless beauty". All women cross their arms under their breasts and smooth their skirts a lot.
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This. x10000

It's a good story, overall, but good lord can Jordan get long winded with how he describes every.single.time an Aes Sedai decides to straigthen her hair or smooth out her dress.. Like paragraphs full of this stuff in the middle of plot. After book 3 or 4 you learn to just skin over those parts, seriously.

However, its not half bad. The battle of Dumai Wells was friggin EPIC. Sure, its some cliche fantasy but the way they end up using the Male Half of the Source is pretty friggin sweet at times.
 
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Iaculus

Mav;286858][quote=Dave said:
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We get that all women are beautiful. ALL women. I'm convinced the books are set in the same universe as "Married With Children" in that all women there are hotties. Even the old ones have a "timeless beauty". All women cross their arms under their breasts and smooth their skirts a lot.
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This. x10000

It's a good story, overall, but good lord can Jordan get long winded with how he describes every.single.time an Aes Sedai decides to straigthen her hair or smooth out her dress.. Like paragraphs full of this stuff in the middle of plot. After book 3 or 4 you learn to just skin over those parts, seriously.

However, its not half bad. The battle of Dumai Wells was friggin EPIC. Sure, its some cliche fantasy but the way they end up using the Male Half of the Source is pretty friggin sweet at times.[/QUOTE]

Dude, give the Malazan series a go. I think you'd enjoy it. WoT may have Asha'man exploding people, but The Malazan Book of the Fallen has someone attempting to assassinate a near-godlike sorcerer-king by ramming a flying mountain into his capital city. While riding it.

And it only gets crazier from there.
 
Shannow

Shannow

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Mav;286858][quote=Dave said:
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We get that all women are beautiful. ALL women. I'm convinced the books are set in the same universe as "Married With Children" in that all women there are hotties. Even the old ones have a "timeless beauty". All women cross their arms under their breasts and smooth their skirts a lot.
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This. x10000

It's a good story, overall, but good lord can Jordan get long winded with how he describes every.single.time an Aes Sedai decides to straigthen her hair or smooth out her dress.. Like paragraphs full of this stuff in the middle of plot. After book 3 or 4 you learn to just skin over those parts, seriously.

However, its not half bad. The battle of Dumai Wells was friggin EPIC. Sure, its some cliche fantasy but the way they end up using the Male Half of the Source is pretty friggin sweet at times.[/QUOTE]

pretty much this.
 
Dave

Dave

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Got my copy in the mail today. Pages 33-64 are not there. I'm missing the end of the prologue, the entire first chapter and some of the second.

Tor must have been in a hurry to get this one out, huh?
 
Espy

Espy

Dave said:
Got my copy in the mail today. Pages 33-64 are not there. I'm missing the end of the prologue, the entire first chapter and some of the second.

Tor must have been in a hurry to get this one out, huh?
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Are you serious? LOL.
 
K

Kitty Sinatra

I'm coming in here to say I've never read any of these Wheel of Time books, have no inclination to do so, and will never read them except under threat of torture.

Good day, everyone.







Actually, I just really don't care for fantasy books much, and I've found I prefer tightly written books that fall under 400 pages. Series really aren't for me - I learned that around book 5 of the Dark Tower stuff.
 
Dave

Dave

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If a book is not more than 400 pages it's not worth it for me to buy. I go through it too fast.
 
Terrik

Terrik

Yeah im the same way. I like a book to last me a while, which is why Im such a fan of the Martin series and WH40K omnibuses
 
K

Kitty Sinatra

Yeah, all my favorites are under 400. Well under in most cases

The Fire Dwellers: 320
Day of the Triffids: 304
Man Crazy: 288
Starship Troopers: 272
My Present Age: 264

Yeah, for some reason, I googled the page count on all of these. Also, I'm guessing quite a bit of that page count for the Fire Dwellers (which is not sci-fi) includes the introduction and afterword since the book is by one of Canada's most significant authors . . . and probably our most significant dead author (although it's probably her least significant book; it just happens to be the one that really hooked me onto Margaret Laurence)
 
Dave

Dave

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Espy;287452][quote=Dave said:
MUCH better book than the last few. MUCH better!
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Really? Does it have anything to do with the new writer do you think?[/QUOTE]

Yes. There's not as much exposition prose and he tends to get to the point more quickly. Much more concise and less fluff. Shit's actually happening and you give a shit about what's happening to the characters again.
 
Espy

Espy

NICE! If I thought I could get through the last 4 or 5 I would probably read it. :(

Ah... maybe someday when I'm out of grad school and really bored...
 
Dave

Dave

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Espy said:
NICE! If I thought I could get through the last 4 or 5 I would probably read it. :(

Ah... maybe someday when I'm out of grad school and really bored...
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I'm kinda pissed about it. There's 766 pages (if they were all there) and I'm on page 537. I should finish it tonight.

Why am I pissed? I signed up for NaNoWriMo and I have yet to write a word due to my reading this book. I'm a damned slacker!
 
Shannow

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Listened to a bunch of it while working and moving, etc. Great stuff so far. Sanderson is doing a fantastic job with it.
 
Espy

Espy

Dang, I figured since in the last book I read the plot didn't advance one bit that all I would miss would be 4000 pages of descriptions of skinny women, fat women and women in between with rosebud lips.

Well maybe someday I will get around to it...
 
Dave

Dave

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The way this book is shaping up it might be worth it. I'm giving a shit about the characters again!
 
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I still say A Song of Ice and Fire is the best fantasy series, ever. I can see re-reading that with each new book like Dave does.
 
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