The Wheel of Time

[Gaul]

I have been reading these books for a while, and i just finished the tenth. book. its a yet to be finished 12 part series called the Wheel of Time. With so much content im not even going to start to summerize what its about, but i was wondering if any of you were fans of this series as well?

[Ihsiin]

Got boring about eight books in.

[Dorbin]

Used to read it, but I too have gotten burnt out.

[Ihsiin]

I'm anuspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have caused you such pericombobulation.

Why can't you just to talk normally?
Oddities are all very nice, but not when they completely forsake clarity.

[Negativity]

Madam? =O

[Ihsiin]

Now that you mention it, he does seem very Maxish.

[Gaul]

Got boring about eight books in.


yeah, about 100 pages into the prologue of winter's heart without encountering one main character, i gave up. maybe i might go back one day, but i'm burnt out on the massive scope of it all.

Used to read it, but I too have gotten burnt out.

Ah. man are you kidding me? how could you get bored with these books, and not be turned off by the Council of Elrond in LOTR? Sure it was informative, but jesus christ, tolkien could not have made that any more boring (not that i didn't love the books.)

I love these books because the scale is so grand. The characters are developed even better than the ones in LOTR in my opinion, and there aren't a bajillion of them that you need to remember in order to understand everything. The story is so simple (Dragon Reborn must defeat the Dark One), and yet its so complex. The only parts that bored me were parts focusing around Nynaeve and Elayne. If you stopped at book 8, it sucks for you, because the story really picks up in book 9. The end is draws closer and the action becomes more intense. The 11th book is out now, but of course i started rereading the series BEFORE i found that out.

I just think its amazing to look at all the characters from the first book and compare them to who they are by the end... Its like they are completely seperate characters. So much happens in these books that you really start to feel like you know the characters. I still can't decide whether i liked this series or LOTR better. LOTR had a great story, but i thought Tolkiens deliverance was extremely boring at times.



You all seem to be looking at it like its too long, which i agree, its very long, but for me i keep finding myself wish that i had more than just 2 measly books left to go. I dunno what i'll do with myself after its over. (ill just have to wait for the 12 part Wheel of Time movie series!)

[Ihsiin]

I read The Lord of the Rings a very long time ago; it's not that long at all. It's only one book, after all. It wasn't boring, either.

The problem isn't the magnitude, it's the fact that Robert Jordan failed to keep the story interesting through out. Politics has taken over too much and now it seems they're having some sort of industrial revolution which I can only despise (I like my fantasy books 10th century and back).
I didn't stop reading after eight books. I've read everything up to (almost) the very end of the eleventh book (and this is because the guy who I was borrowing the book off wanted it back before I finished it) and I will finish the story. The fact remains and that it did get very boring. Not only that but all the characters have evolved from people that I quite liked at the beginning to detestable little bastards, especially after that bit in the eleventh book (which, if you haven't read, I won't divulge).

To conclude, magnitude is only a problem when the author can’t use it well.

I used a lot of brackets in this post; I think I should be awarded some sort of prize.

[Gaul]

lol.

Yeah, books 8-10 contain their fair share of boring parts, but they also contain some of the highlights of the series i think. I am starting to like the characters more and more as I go (especially rand, lan, and perrin. They are my favorite characters), not disliking them. The only character im starting to dislike it matt. He deals with the least shit out of all the 3 characters, and yet it seems like half the content dealing with him is just him bitching to himself about his life. I love the struggle between rand and Lews Therin, i can't wait to see how that turns out, and i still refuse to believe that Moraine is truely dead. I dunno... I find that its easy to get past those boring parts because i know theres always going to be something to look forward to. That industrial revolution thing your talking about i believe you are exagerrating a bit (havent read the 11th yet). He started the schools to have all the knowledge of their world in one place, because a second breaking of the world is coming. its more of an attempt to save knowledge than an attempt to expand upon it i think. Although it is interesting i think to see them inventing and discovering things that are closely related with today.

[Teh Roxor!]

I loved every bit of that series.

[Ihsiin]

Goodbye, I wish you well and so on and so forth.
Come now, you must have realised I was taking the piss.

[Gaul]

The first is a medical term relating to digestion, which is actually spelt anus-peptic, I believe (peptic meaning, having to do with the digestive system; anus, having to do with the process of excretion), and compunctious is of course the adjective form of the substantive, compunction, which is defined clearly as penitence or repentance. Pericombobulation is not a word (peri- means round or about; neither -com- nor -bob- mean anything; and -ulate would form a verb; and -tion forms a noun; from which you extract nothing more than the meaning of the prefix), and phrasmotic is not a word either, as there is no Latin or Greek root to either except the -tion suffix in the former. Phras is incorrectly spelt if it's to mean "of failure," which the Old English Fras- prefix indicated.

Succour! Succour! He knows what I was saying to a moderate extent! Well, I've got the worst of catarrhs, so I'll leave you to revel in your loss. Goodbye.


Right... um.... ah... Yeah well... you spelled spelled wrong you loser! haha! in your fizzace biznatch!
Phras is incorrectly spelt if it's to mean "of failure,"

[Negativity]

If "peri" means round or about, does periperi mean... roundabout?

[Gaul]

there are no british amish, therefor you cannot say spelt.

Anyway, stay on topic.

[Negativity]

Alpheretic perisifation of sylladonic proprizeniary and cluematisal falladonction.

My thoughts on the series.

[Negativity]

Oh yeah, sorrrry.