I just couldn't recommend it in good conscience.
I tried to get into it a couple of times, but I seem to have lost my taste for fantasies that require cheat sheets to keep track of things.
Young Simon: So... how'd the Independents cut us off? Young River: They were using dinosaurs.
'Safe'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Nov 29, 2006 4:47:38 pm PST #1610 of 28160
brillig
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2006 5:12:23 pm PST #1611 of 28160
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It seemed to be one of those works that needed details to understand while you're in the trenches reading, but any given book could be summed up in a few sentences, and the series to date in fewer.
sumi - Nov 29, 2006 5:13:15 pm PST #1612 of 28160
Art Crawl!!!
Umm, I think it's still on-going. I can't say when I gave up on it but there are something like 11 books in the series so far.
beth b - Nov 29, 2006 5:16:01 pm PST #1613 of 28160
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
There is one that either just came out or is goingto be comming out ...But I've lost track. I only read the first one.
Ginger - Nov 29, 2006 5:19:18 pm PST #1614 of 28160
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I read The Sharing Knife, and I was very disappointed. It seemed like something any number of fantasy writers could have written.
Typo Boy - Nov 29, 2006 6:28:40 pm PST #1615 of 28160
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I read The Sharing Knife, and I was very disappointed. It seemed like something any number of fantasy writers could have written.
Yes. This.
P.M. Marc - Nov 29, 2006 7:39:13 pm PST #1616 of 28160
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
ita, it's still on going, Robert Jordan has some potentially fatal disorder, but doesn't expect he'll be done until he's 90, an age he may not see.
Do NOT get sucked back in.
Don't do it!
But if you do, can I just ship Paul's copies of the damn books your way to get them out of my house? He's agreed that they're not good for him, only make him mad, and he's just reading them to see how it ends, if it does.
sumi - Nov 30, 2006 5:16:12 am PST #1617 of 28160
Art Crawl!!!
Muggle Ball this weekend. . . .and the info about the COE's mini-Academy.
Volans - Nov 30, 2006 7:36:03 am PST #1618 of 28160
move out and draw fire
Wow, I reached the conclusion that the Wheel of Tedium would never end, and even if it did I would be well past caring by that point. I mean, 15 years of books? With no plot developments to speak of?
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2006 7:51:09 am PST #1619 of 28160
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wikipedia is the best:
Reviewers and fans of the earlier books have noted a slowing of the pace of events in the last few installments. This slowing culminated in the tenth book Crossroads of Twilight which covered only one day in the lives of the characters.
Ha! And aren't these books like six hundred pages long? (Holy shit, apparently 864.)
However, he maintains that A Memory of Light will remain one volume "whether it is 1500 pages long, Tor has to invent a new binding system, and it comes with its own library cart".
Well then. There's only one more book left, see! And apparently, what, he projects it will take him thirty years to write it??
I was confused at first: The Wheel of Time is bad to get into, but apparently the...thing with the.. Songs of Ice and Fire, I think it's called? Those books are good, though?