Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Books => Topic started by: Nessa on November 01, 2005, 02:19:14 AM
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And the award for most frequently used description of random characters goes to:
"...whose nose had been broken more than twice..."
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Oh, is the new Robert Jordan out? You can tell how I pay attention. I might read it someday--I am interested in knowing how it ends (if it ever does). But I stopped buying them at about book 9.
Does anything happen in this book? Or is it just more of the same random new characters becoming main characters?
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Actually quite a lot happens. Book 10 was very frustrating because it was slow and nothing happened. However, in this one, Perrin's, Mat's, and Elayne's storylines have some resolution, and there aren't any new major characters. There are a few minor sidetracks, but in all it was a satisfying book.
There's also a lot of references to the fact that the last battle is coming soon (it's said in almost every chapter). Hopefully, that's a sign...
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When a lot happening means in book 11 Elayne repeats what Rand did in book 5... no, actually even less. This is when you can say for certain the story is being stretched, just a tad. Oh yeah, they also defeat the Shaido... wait, didn't they do that in book 5 also? It just seems even more dumb the longer I think about it.
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Eagle, you aren't getting bitter, are you?
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He's only bitter because he didn't stop reading after book 1 like I did.
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I read all the way through book 4. I don't feel I gained much from it.
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I can't make it through book one. I keep wanting to read YA fantasy instead--like Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo, my most recent acquisition.
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Chimera, I had to force myself through book one. I decided it was research purposes, and that was the only reason I completed it on my third try.
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I bought #1 when it first was out in paperback many years ago, and it took me three tries to get through the boring first couple of chapters.
I couldn't quit reading the series, though, desite several frustrating books. I have to finish stories, no matter how stupid because I want to know how they end.
In this book (#10), however, the Mat storyline I liked, and I want to see its completion. Not everyone will, of course, but it finally goes somewhere and it's interesting, mostly Tuon's point-of-view, IMHO.
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I found, at several times throughout the later half or the series, forcing myself to not skip to the end because of how boring it was. I also have the 'problem' of being slightly OCD in my compulsion to finish all the books I start; unless they offend me will how badly they are written i.e. "She walks to the table. She picks up the pitcher. She pours herself a drink"...etc. I do find myself wanting to read KOD because I want to know what happens, and how much closer to the end it gets. I will give Jordan this though, he has a wonderfully fleshed out world.
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I stopped at book 4. I should have stopped at book 1.
Jordan really put me off of trying any of the more modern fantasy authors for some time. Then I found George R.R. Martin and all faith in fantasy was restored.