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Robert Jordan's A Wheel of Time
ravelle — Thu, 06/26/2008 - 14:02
Hi all,
I'm currently finishing book four of this series, and I wondered what other people think of the books (whether you've read them all or not). I'm enjoying them thus far but they're starting to slow down and lose a lot of their intensity and pace. This is the first book where everyone's not "pulled together" at the end for a big finale!
What are your thoughts?
Re: Robert Jordan's A Wheel of Time
kcf — Thu, 06/26/2008 - 18:44I've been a big fan of RJ's books for a long time - they are what really brought my reading SFF to a new level and lead me to the internet. Since I've read them all several times and discussed them to death, they hold a special place even though they are far from the best examples of epic fantasy.
As for what's to come, the books loose focus in the sense of the they become more diluted. The character threads and arcs continue to diverge into numerous sub-plots and RJ spends lots of time with both major and minor plot threads over the next several books. It continues like this until about book 11 when RJ really starts to pull the threads back together for the ending of the story. Many people will say that the series really starts to loose it around book 7 (if they don't think this earlier). I don't really agree, but I do think that books 7,8,9, and 10 should have been 2 well-edited books rather than the 4 books then turned out to be.
Neth Space
Re: Robert Jordan's A Wheel of Time
ravelle — Thu, 06/26/2008 - 21:43Yeah, I'm really enjoying them thus far. As long as things keep happening and progressing I think i'll stay hooked. I particularly like the characterization of the characters, which sometimes can be a bit clichéd (he loves repeating his character specific phrases!), but I think that's what draws me to the books the most. George R.R. Marin does the same, it just makes me want (need?) to know what's going to happen to them!