Timewaster's Guide Archive

I've read the first bunch of them (I think up to 9 or so) but then real life events caught up to me (I moved away to college) and stopped reading. I tried to get back into the swing by getting book 10 (Winter's Heart?) only to realize that I couldn't figure out which character was doing what and why (I'm talking the smaller characters, I remembered what went on with the major ones). Then I got back from college and tried to read them in one big sitting. That didn't go well. I started dreading reading "yet another" 1000 pages of plot.

Having said that I actually rather enjoyed them all and I'm definitely going to re-read them. I just need to pace myself and not try to read them all one after the other after the other without taking a short break in between.

The one thing RJ did do was to make me shy away from the really big series - but only when the author isn't nearing the completion of the story. If a major plot arc spans 10 books again, sure I'll read it. If it spans 10 books and the author's only on book 2 and it'll take 3 years between books to read, I won't start it - I'll pick it up closer to completion.

The only thing I wish I had of the WoT series is them all in hardback. My mom and I bought them all in paperback and with the few read throughs that we have done, some are already falling apart.

Wanted to say that this is a great series. I loved all of it. In fact I'm going to have to go back and read it all over again, just because I read way too fast and not closely enough to catch everything on the first run through.

I was very very sad to see Elend and Vin die at the end (the entire time she "was" Preservation I kept screaming that she's gotta come back down and say bye to Elend - I think I managed to make my brother mad for that one ) but the imagery of when Spook found their bodies at the end sorta made it "ok" for me. They were holding hands, possibly showing that their love transcended even their deaths. You don't always get that in stories - I mean sure a lot of characters are always saying that they'll love each other forever, but I don't feel the stories always SHOW that.

A few things caught me by surprise: Sazed's "true" purpose...how the Koloss/Iquisitors/Kandra were made (especially the Koloss - I sat back and blinked for about five minutes over that one)...the location of the Kandra Homeland (hah right under the Lord Ruler's nose!)...the function of the mists (well in this book particularly)...

I also wanted to say that I absolutely loved how Vin (and Elend, though I didn't relate to him that much in this aspect) finally managed to piece together her identity - that she could happily attend balls and dance away the night while playing polite politics one minute and then turn around and become a necessary assassin the next. It really struck a chord within myself since it's been something I've been struggling with myself recently (two disparate "personalities" not so much with the assassinating ).  It's heartening to know that it is possible (and I don't think its something that I've come across a lot in the novels I've read)

Well that's just my two cents...

Yes, though I should have said its two different types of recordings.

One's on CD and the other on Tape.

My bad!

This makes me wonder if I'm the only Canadian here.

Nah not the only one.

I went to one of my favorite World of Warcraft comic sites to find a post saying something about the WOT series final book being written by someone I'd never heard of. At which point I went immediately to the Dragonmount website (well as fast as my sad internet connection would let me) and read the whole story.

So I went out to my local bookstore (had to walk in ten feet of snow uphill both ways ya know ) and bought the first Mistborn novel (still on Chapter 1 but hoping to read it after I pry myself away from the boards tonight).

The rest, as they say, is history.