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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #60 on: April 07, 2009, 10:40:53 PM »
Yeah, I've read a few chapters.  I've just been busy.  Ha Ha.  I'm somewhere in the middle of the Baerlon section.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #61 on: April 07, 2009, 11:11:29 PM »
i think i heard your yawn from here. Baerlon...<shudder>
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #62 on: April 07, 2009, 11:12:47 PM »
Baerlon is a cool place to hang out. Kesumi almost never finds me there...

Oh was that outloud?
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #63 on: April 08, 2009, 04:05:27 PM »

Chapter 14 - Chapter 15

Questions

So, they go looking for the Eye in this book then the Horn in the next one right? >>'

Who does Ba'alzamon sound familiar?  Does it have some real world connection of some sort?

Does Min end up joining the group later?  I like her. ha ha.

Thoughts

It took me long enough to get through these two chapters.  xD  Lots of business and such.

I am liking how all of the "legends" are beginning to become reality to the group.

This section was interesting.  The dream sequence, again, was well done.  I just wish they would tell Moiraine so I know what she would say. ha ha.

Predictions

Thom will be with the group for longer than he wanted to be.

Nynaeve is going to be extremely annoying and will insist on tagging along.

The Children WON'T forget Rand . . . and that will cause major problems later on.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #64 on: April 08, 2009, 04:21:21 PM »
Ba'al or lord was one of the generic terms for gods among the asiatics of the middle east (Assyrians, Kaananites, Hittites, Hebrews which in my opinion should be Ivrites but I don't work in the court of King James ;P )  Ba'al Zebub and Ba'al Zafan are cognates of Thor (hittite Tharh) the storm God.

Hey you caught me with my pants down so to speak my own book deal with these figures quite a bit...  ;)
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #65 on: April 08, 2009, 04:25:50 PM »
It was Ba'al Zebub that I was thinking.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #66 on: April 08, 2009, 04:30:00 PM »
Quote from: miyabi on April 08, 2009, 04:05:27 PM

Chapter 14 - Chapter 15

Questions

So, they go looking for the Eye in this book then the Horn in the next one right? >>'

That's what the title would seem to suggest, but I'll leave the actual details for you to find out....

Quote from: miyabi on April 08, 2009, 04:05:27 PM

Who does Ba'alzamon sound familiar?  Does it have some real world connection of some sort?

See above. Note that many of the things from WoT are based on real world religion and mythology to some extent, and it's kinda fun to find the connections.

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Does Min end up joining the group later?  I like her. ha ha.


I'll just say that yes, she is a significant character, and you will see more of her.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #67 on: April 08, 2009, 04:32:17 PM »
Min is fun.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #68 on: April 08, 2009, 07:04:37 PM »
Ba'al Zebub is either Sammael (Satan's angelic name after he was cast out Satan is a title) or his right hand man depending on your source its a stupid debate. Ba'al was the king of the asyrian gods and the hebrews commonly took other peoples gods to cast as powerful demons in modern spelling he is Beelezebub or Lord of the Flies, he was the demon that the Sageses and Farisese said Jesus got his powers from in the Gospels.

And miyabi don't listen to the pestimist the first 100 pages or so are slow but its a build up of info for a huge series and you need the info 9 and 10 i thought were slow and i've heard and can see the argument that 7-10 are slow but as for the first six it picks up soon don't worry.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #69 on: April 08, 2009, 07:41:18 PM »
Quote from: miyabi on April 08, 2009, 04:05:27 PM
So, they go looking for the Eye in this book then the Horn in the next one right?
Hmm, can't really answer that.  But by your reasoning, they would later need to seek, among other things, a path of daggers, a knife of dreams, and a crossroads of twilight.

Quote from: miyabi on April 08, 2009, 04:05:27 PM
Does Min end up joining the group later?  I like her. ha ha.
Not sure you'd call it joining the group, but you'll definitely see her again.

Quote from: miyabi on April 08, 2009, 04:05:27 PM
This section was interesting.  The dream sequence, again, was well done.
Good thing you like Jordan's dream sequences, because there are a lot of them throughout the series.  Personally, I thought they got old and started to skim them, which probably accounts for a good deal of my confusion about what's going on.   ;)

As for your predictions, I can only say that they're getting more and more accurate as you go along.  Either you're coming to know the book and its characters better, or you're choosing safer events to predict.   :)
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #70 on: April 08, 2009, 07:48:48 PM »
Quote from: SarahG on April 08, 2009, 07:41:18 PM
As for your predictions, I can only say that they're getting more and more accurate as you go along.  Either you're coming to know the book and its characters better, or you're choosing safer events to predict.   :)

Nah, he's probably a witch, and using dark magic to make proper predictions, which means we need a good ol' fashun burnin' at the stake!!

That or he's reading spoilers :P

(Also note that i'm joking obviously with both. I think he's just making pretty good guesses with some.)
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #71 on: April 08, 2009, 09:30:19 PM »
well he could be reading spoilers and then throwing in some wrong predictions to throw us off... ::)
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #72 on: April 08, 2009, 10:50:54 PM »
or it's just that obvious?
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #73 on: April 09, 2009, 02:12:15 AM »
I don't read spoilers.  They annoy me.  I'm just good at guessing.  I am usually right about what will happen in a book about half way through it.  I haven't decided if the foreshadowing makes the book good, or a completely unpredictable ending is what is good. :\  Depends on my mood I guess.
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Re: My readthrough of WoT (**Spoilers**)
« Reply #74 on: April 09, 2009, 02:27:00 AM »
…and the quality of the book…
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