Dead Voodoo Doll Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Anyone else take the day off to read A Memory of Light? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0xx Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 What is WOT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demiterracotta Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 Have to work...... But being the librarian has its perks, such as 'sorry, it's already checked out.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egreir Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 What is WOT? Wheel of Time. It's a 14 part fantasy series. The original author died before the last book was finished, but supposedly left very detailed notes on the concept for the last book and it was finished by a hand-picked author. There's been many games based off of it. Even one of the MUDs consistently in the Top10 on TMS for many, many years is based off of WOT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mya Posted January 8, 2013 Report Share Posted January 8, 2013 What is WOT? A book series by Robert Jordan, who had planed to make a 3 book series and ended up with 14 books. The reason many people are afraid to start the Game of Thrones series/Song of fire and ice. At the rate George Martin writes he will be dead before finishing the series. And he already said that he will not allow anyone to finish it if he dies. I stooped reading WOT at book 10. I just could not remember whose character was who. Never figured who killed Asmodian. "Asmodean pulled open a small door, intending to find his way to the pantry. There should be some decent wine. One step, and he stopped, the blood draining from his face. "You? No!" The word still hung in the air when death took him." Also the series is plagued by a stupid witch tower passages that you must grind through. And the glorious warriors of the light are portrayed as a bunch of psychopaths. Still the first book is amazing. One of the best I ever read. Which must be the reason why the series sells so well. Even after all the crap he writes in latter books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Voodoo Doll Posted January 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 A book series by Robert Jordan, who had planed to make a 3 book series and ended up with 14 books. The reason many people are afraid to start the Game of Thrones series/Song of fire and ice. At the rate George Martin writes he will be dead before finishing the series. And he already said that he will not allow anyone to finish it if he dies. I stooped reading WOT at book 10. I just could not remember whose character was who. Never figured who killed Asmodian. "Asmodean pulled open a small door, intending to find his way to the pantry. There should be some decent wine. One step, and he stopped, the blood draining from his face. "You? No!" The word still hung in the air when death took him." Also the series is plagued by a stupid witch tower passages that you must grind through. And the glorious warriors of the light are portrayed as a bunch of psychopaths. Still the first book is amazing. One of the best I ever read. Which must be the reason why the series sells so well. Even after all the crap he writes in latter books. ha! Sums up the thoughts of many I've discussed the series with, when I started 17 years ago. I'm just glad it's here, halfway finished. Nice book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangelion Posted January 9, 2013 Report Share Posted January 9, 2013 I'm about halfway finished too. The one thing that is grinding my gears is the disjointed way this one's written. I really liked Sanderson's previous two books, but this one, I don't think there's been a single chapter that was completely from one perspective -- it's all treated like the prologue, bouncing around multiple times in a single chapter. The only other complaint I have is that there has been very little so far from the perspective of the Forsaken or other Darkfriends. Everything has been shown in kind of a one-sided way. But honestly, I really like the book so far and I'm excited to finish it and see how the saga ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evangelion Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Finished the book. Wow... I have never felt so thoroughly drained in my entire life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Implementor Volgathras Posted January 12, 2013 Implementor Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 Gave up on it a long time ago, though I was thoroughly in love for a long time. I totally hear you Mya, the witch tower, near the end of the period I was reading them, just ended up being a chore for me. And Rand was a whiny little ***** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demiterracotta Posted January 12, 2013 Report Share Posted January 12, 2013 After actually finishing the book. And having read the entire series. The character progression kept me going. Even though there were a couple of ENTIRE novels that felt like they weren't doing anything to move along I still always liked the series. I had to know how it ended. I had to know what life was going to be like after Tarmon Gai'don. (The allusions were there, I wish there was more actual chapters after the fact. It's like he was going 'I wonder if they'll let me write another book so I can make more money!) I thought it wrapped up the end of the series well. You have so many people that loved different characters. Oddly enough I haven't met very many people that identified with Rand well. And I think that is part of what turned people off on the books most. You have the MAIN character that nobody really went 'wow, I've felt like that!' everyone went 'Wow, c'mon! I want more nynaeve/mat/egwene/aiel etc.' And it was a problem with the series. However, finally I have a book that ties everything together and gives me some closure on the characters I love. I'm ok with that. Still not as good as the first six, but at least I know how it all ended and can be happy that the story still had a couple of twists I didn't see coming. I'll still read the series once a year and I am happy I don't have to wait for another book to come out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Voodoo Doll Posted January 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 Finished over the weekend. First time in 17 years I won't have one to look forward to. I enjoyed the book, thought it could've been better, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I was so happy that it was coming out but now that it’s finished I think I’d rather have one released every two years for the rest of my life Definitely agree with Demi, nothing will ever beat the first six. Main problems were lack of a finish to certain characters. There was only one blunder that I saw and that was Narishma healing Lan after the battle with Demandred with no mention of them taking off Matt’s medallion. I also felt that the last 30 pages were rushed, the showdown with Padan Fain was extremely weak, the total lack of explanation for how Faile got to Merrilor after last being left in a Trolloc army camp right outside Thakan’dar, and Perrin being asleep for the entirety of the Last Battle, and absolutely no “get together” of the original characters (with or w/out Loial). Things I loved in this book: Rand, Matt, Egwene, Perrin, Aviendha, Min, Lan (Lan had the best moment in the entire book), Gawyn (first time I’ve ever enjoyed his character), Demandred, Graendal Things they really could’ve done better: Padan Fain, Nynaeve, Moiraine, Thom, Moghedien, Siuan, Bryne, Moridin, Rhuarc + a million minor characters. I still hate Brandon Sanderson’s writing. It’s too modern and doesn’t match RJ at all. Some of the jokes delivered made it feel like I was watching an episode of The Office, way too modern and one-liner. Sanderson doesn’t do build up well. Sanderson also took way too many shots at the fan base with some not so subtle reveals, i.e. Matt’s letter to Galad was a straight shot to the backlash he got on the letter Matt wrote to Elayne in ToM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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