Anyone read the Wheel of Time series

[Tiamat89]

Has anyone here read The Wheel of Time books they're really good and if you haven't you should go to the library or bookstore or wherever and buy or check them out.

[froggyguy]

1) I personally appreciate punctuation.

2) I started that series, and stopped somewhere in book four because I found it really inconsistent (and really long >,>) The first and 3rd books I really enjoyed, whereas the 2nd and 4th seemed slow and tedious to get through. I didn't really want to read a 10+ book series when I only enjoyed half of it...

[mei-chan]

read it, love it and cant wait for jordan to finish it! He should finish it first instead of writing those prequels, i wanna know what is going to happen to everybody
he has created a perfect world, you just step into it when you read the books, everything makes sense
but maybe that is because sometimes he takes a long time explaining everything

[PeterAhlstrom]

Hope Robert Jordan finishes before he dies.

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html

[Akemi]

Hope Robert Jordan finishes before he dies.

http://www.locusmag.com/2006/Features/03JordanLetter.html


Ouch. I loved reading the first 3 or 4 of his books. The next few were a chore and read/skimmed more of find out what the heck happens to the characters that I'd come to love. I was waiting till he finished the series before picking up again. So, I also really hope he finishes before he dies.

I guess, Terry Goodkind's work will have to do though it seems like he's going along the same lines as Robert Jordan with endless pages and no movement in story.

[mei-chan]

Ouch. I loved reading the first 3 or 4 of his books. The next few were a chore and read/skimmed more of find out what the heck happens to the characters that I'd come to love. I was waiting till he finished the series before picking up again. So, I also really hope he finishes before he dies.

I guess, Terry Goodkind's work will have to do though it seems like he's going along the same lines as Robert Jordan with endless pages and no movement in story.


Terry Goodkind is not nearly as bad as Robert Jordan, he publishes regularely ( do you spell it like that?). At least he doesn't start publishing prequels when he hasn't finished his main series yet!

[Akemi]

Terry Goodkind is not nearly as bad as Robert Jordan, he publishes regularely ( do you spell it like that?). At least he doesn't start publishing prequels when he hasn't finished his main series yet!

Oh? :D Debt of Bones was a prequel.

[mei-chan]

Oh? :D Debt of Bones was a prequel.

got me there.....
At least it wasn't a large story....:rolleyes:

[mangadragon]

read it, liked it. read further, got confused. read further, gave up in disgust. RJ's just so inconsistent. goes off on a tangent at the drop of a hat...

[mei-chan]

waahh...
Terrible news, Robert Jordan is severely ill!! For more news see http://www.tor.com/jordan/
guess we should not have joked about him dying!!:o

[Ashton_Anchors]

I love that series. I have only to book 8 and have only read the first four, but I enjoy them, what I have read of them that is. I love Perrin a lot, he's an awsome character, though Mat is a fun character ^^;;

[YamPuff]

It was great...the first three books were excellent...then they started dragging...then he wrote a PREQUEL for heaven's sake.

What happened to Rand? You know, the dragon reborn? Oh, him. And Mat? What about Perrin who turned into the sobbiest sob story ever? (I hate him so much...his wife even more...)

I hate the Aes Sedai. All of them. In fact, the only female character I didn't hate was Birgitte. She's awesome.

So...love the series...but it messed up somehwere along the line. Too many chacarters, too many plot twists. And I started liking the Forsaken (is that their name?) more and more. When you start rooting for the bad guys, its not a good sign.

[Pig Head]

Read the first four books and enjoyed them immensely except there was a such a long period before the next one that I lost interest. Now I just skim the descriptions and find it funny that basically the characters really don't seem to have progressed to much. Rand is still confused all the time it seems and the plot just inches along. Too bad about Jordan being ill though.

[Kyaa the Catlord]

I read up until it turned into a bad fanfiction with two of Rand's 'wives' listening in magically as he had sex with a third.

[YamPuff]

Actually I thought that was pretty funny...guess I'm perverted...what's wrong with having three girls? I thought that a cool departure from the norm. Anyone can have one love....:D

[Kyaa the Catlord]

Actually I thought that was pretty funny...guess I'm perverted...what's wrong with having three girls? I thought that a cool departure from the norm. Anyone can have one love....:D

Oh, I'm ok with multiple wives (my Tenchi Muyo solution is precisely that). I was just annoyed by the "peeping" session. It read like a bad fanfic. :P

[YamPuff]

Yeah...I mean, he couldn't possibly be that good.

[mei-chan]

i am interested to see where it will go with 3 women sharing one husband though!;)

[GreenteaGirl]

I like the series a lot and tend to just ignore the stuff I don’t like (perrins more recent exploits).

I think it’s realistic that Rand is confused all of the time, what do you think it would be like if you were in his position? Honestly I might have just embraced the madness and just started to lay waste to everything that moved.

I have to agree though that most of the female characters are flawed in ways that make it impossible from me to like them. Birgitte being the major exception. For some reason it seems to be that way with a lot of male writers works. They tend to have good male characters but the female characters are incomprehensible, to me at least.

[feder]

Hm..I have most of his books but I find them very hard to get through. I enjoyed the first and third volumes and the "New Spring" volume, but getting through two was very hard, especially since I only really liked a few characters in the book.
I found that it DOES help a little bit if you read New Spring before the rest of the series. For some reason I was a bit more tolerable with the characters, especially the girls, after reading New Spring and then coming back to the series.

[GreenteaGirl]

Huh...I'll have to try that because Elayn is driving me nuts every time I have to read about her.

[YamPuff]

Honestly I might have just embraced the madness and just started to lay waste to everything that moved.

Already did that. XD

I always did love Rand *sighs* It annoys me nowadays that all the women have to 'strong, intelligent, caring, blah blah blah'. They just end up being 'bossy, nasty, hot-tempered blah blah blah'. Gets on my nerves.