That atrocity of a first season completely killed any joy to found with this sadly
After finishing the first episode of the show, I turned off the television and spent 20 minutes explaining why I refused to watch another second of it to my wife.
Same. Your wife was really sick of it by the time i wrapped up. Sorry!
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That’s so bad that I’m kind of impressed.
I really enjoyed the first season.
The books were great but they seriously suffered from lack of editing. Example: nobody needed to see that much of Mat whining and being an ass on the barge ride up the river and I’m glad the show left it out. I’m cautiously optimistic that the show will pull off judicious improvements to the storytelling.
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She really shoulda kept her name as Mandarb.
Blood and bloody ashes, I just started my first re-read in a few years. I’m about 1/4 of the way through The Dragon Reborn. I have a new place to post my flaming book reports!
If I had a braid, I would be tugging it at your language
Can’t wait! I’m really glad I discovered it through the show, now on book 10 and on one hand I can’t wait till I finish and at the same time I’m dreading it.
Oh, so youre already coming near the end. The last two books are fucking great. They are absolutely fantastic.
Don’t worry you’ll reread it again 😋
Part of the pros of it being so long is by the time you’re done you can start over again and it feels fresh hahs.
“Reread”, “within a few years”?
I could barely struggle through the first two books iirc. Or was it the third one I started. Second or third, but it repeated the first so much I got bored and just kinda left it.
It’s a slow burn, with some parts that are admittedly kind of painful to read. I’ve read most of the books probably 5 or 6 times. Some I’ve only read once or twice, no one needs to read Winter’s Heart more than once really. This time though I’m doing a full re-read. It’s a big undertaking, 15 books.
There’s some great material throughout, but as a whole from Lord of Chaos to Winters Heart, i mostly skim. I really, really don’t like Salidar. And UNHOLY FUCK, some of his names, of which there are hundreds, are only differentiated by a single letter.
Is the Wheel of Time related to the Dark Tower books?
The best way I could describe Randland (an informal term for The Wheel of Time setting) would be a less dystopian Middle Earth.
It’s a larger and happier - and even more pure in a non-earthly-religions sense. In a good way. But there’s still world ending conflict, it’s just - incoming controversial opinion - better than Middle Earth.
It’s a massive world and worth every word read. It’s a lifelong re-read for me, and I don’t even re-read LoTR.
There is a similarity to Midworld and its relation to Earth in the series, but it would be spoiler-y for me to elaborate.
It’s very much The Hero’s Tale. Village - Adventure - Save the Cat. But it’s how it should be.
Edit: the show is not a place to start. Not slagging it, but it’s incomparable to the books. Best experience is the OG audiobooks narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, not Amazons re-recorded rights grab.
It’s not better than Middle Earth. But it is very cool. I need to reread, I’ve only read it once and that was over a decade ago.
The Amazon show was so disappointing but kinda inspired me to read the books again. It’s just such a daunting task to get started 😅
Stephen King dark tower?
No. Not western, no guns, no science, not really horror.WoT is the whole “forgotten/suppressed magic, ‘the one’, forces of long imprisoned evil” kinda fantasy, along with a rise to power, world politics, massive battles, adventure, and - I guess - romance.
Has a lot of the tropes, but carves a great story and adventure.
I genuinely recommend it. I’ve read it 3 times, and I enjoy the TV series.It’s a 15 book epic fantasy, with the last 3 books written by Brandon Sanderson according to (deceased, 2007) Robert Jordans notes.
It’s good.
It has it’s faults, Robert Jordans writing has it’s faults.
But it is good, a great story, a great adventure, a great over-arching story. And 15 books long, makes it great read to sink into and enjoy.
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I did, thanks!
I still recall “Eye of the World” as the hardest to read book I’ve ever read. I don’t regret it but it greatly reduces my desire to reread the series.
Didn’t seem that bad to me (though I’ve definitely read books with better flow), I had that exact same thing with Game of Thrones.
While a good series without a doubt, it suffers from the tradition of each book being about “100 pages too long” and in need of editing. It would be interesting to see if a newer LLM could do that in a way that would make it a tighter story.
Calm down wetlander
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