Timewaster's Guide Archive

Rothfuss says "In medieval times, people probably would have referred to me as “Phlegmatic” and attributed this tendency to an imbalance of my humors. These days people just think of me as an an irreverent asshat."

I did not know what an "asshat" was before reading this article and looking it up. 
Wikipedia: "Asshat is a slightly trendier and less severe variation of asshole,  graphically describing someone who has his “head up his own ass” (i.e., not knowing what’s going on): one is wearing one’s ass for a hat. ”
This made me laugh. 

Another great quote was
“This is a really fucking good book. Seriously. Have you read it? No? Go buy it, shitweasel.”
Also very funny. 

An excellent and accurate blurb for this book though would be
"Warning: This book may cause severe sleep deprivation until you finish it"

Is there a map of roshar posted anywhere online? 
Thanks.

Richard fife's review on tor.com says that its implied she was a victim of sexual abuse.  Did any of you see a hint of that?

Anyone know brandon or peter that could request they publish the pictures on Brandon's site in the WOK section?  I think it would be very good marketing for the book!

Hi, so I got the WOK audiobook but I realize that there will be no illustrations in it.
Is there a place to see the illustrations outside the audiobook and how do I know when I should/should not look at them to not get spoiled by something I haven't read yet? 

No spoilers in this thread please.  Thanks.

First, I enjoyed this book and I enjoyed the characters who I thought were strong and interesting to read about.  I had some issues with a few of them.

I don't know why, but for most of the book, I expected that the bad guy in this book was going to be a human instead of another demon and I was surprised and somewhat dissapointed when I found out that this was the case. 

I felt like having a human killer would have forced John to make a more difficult moral choice than killing another demon (Can I actually kill another human being who is a murderer?).  When confronted with the demon, it seemed too easy of a choice for John to kill this second evil monster rather than confronting a human serial killer and deciding whether he was capable of coming to terms with whether or not he was capable of killing this person or not. 

OK, sure, he was presented with the opportunity to kill Curt who was not a very nice person, but Curt was not a murderer, just a person who hit his girlfriend once, and Curt was defenseless, so this seems like a much easier choice to make.

I also felt like there should have been perhaps some more foreshadowing of the fact that there could be more demons as I was totally blindsided by the existence of the second demon.

I also thought that brooke's reaction at the end of the book was unrealistic - sure she feels traumatized but she also understands that John saved her from a very bad situation.  I think it would have been more realistic for her to say something like she appreciated him saving her but she wanted to spend some time apart just to be able to forget about it for awhile.  I was quite upset with her after reading this part.

What do you think?

In the next book, I hope we learn more about the origins and motivations of the demons, that there will be more interesting conflicts and that the relationship with John and Brooke will be further developed.

I have loved reading the transcriptions on dragonmount.com forums of the questions and answers brandon did on the gathering storm book tour about the wheel of time.  See here (warning: contains wheel of time spoilers of course): http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/board,278.0.html

It reminded me of when Robert Jordan used to do "questions of the week".  These were great and gave awesome new insight into the Wheel of Time.   I eagerly awaited the new question and its answer every week.

Here's an archive of Wheel of time questions of the week for the curious:
http://13depository.blogspot.com/2009/03/tor-questions-of-week.html

Please post here if you'd like Brandon to answer a wheel of time question of the week on his blog or website.  I'd love to see it.