Author chosen to finish off "The wheel of time" series.Follow

I've never even heard of the guy.

(Not that I really care anyway. I've never been a big Robert Jordan fan in the first place.)

I loved Elantris. Now, I have never read The Wheel of Time series. It will be my next series after I finish up with Neil Gaimon. But I hear people raving about them, so I hope he finishes the series off well.

No No no it's read books 1-6 then skip to 12.

Just read the blurb on teh wiki or something.

If you miss out book 4-5 you miss the Back story of the Aiel and Perrins bits in the Two Rivers which are the best bits.

Also Book 10 is 300 pages of charicters dress sence, which is mind numbingly boring.

FTFY. That is i think book 8 or 9, i said stop at book 6.

Book 8-10 are complete drivel, so much so that i haven't even got book 11 just incase it was the same.

I will borrow books 11 and 12, if 12 is the last book. If they are of the same standard as the first 6 i will then buy them, if not i'll send the rest of the set i do own to the recycling plant.

Perrin's my favorite character, it pisses me off that he had been on a wild falcon chase for the last 4 books. Don't blame him, blame the dude who got his coffin nailed shut BEFORE he finished writing the series.

Books 1-3 are nails.

Books 4,5,6 are hit and miss. Certain story arcs with the Aiel, Two Rivers, etc are a joy to read. I found most of the Elayne, Nynaeve material to be the most mind numbingly boring read ever.

Books 7,8,9 are progressively worse getting dark, meandering, think and just plain not fun to read. Book 10 I absolutely could not have detested anymore than I did. From page 1 to page 680 (hardback) the storyline didn't move forward at all, except in a few key places. Absolutely no momentum, it is not as if he needs to flesh out a 10 book, multi thousand page story anymore than it is and when you wait 3-4 years for a book to walk into a story that in the end achieves nothing in forwarding character development, the story line, or revealing any of the big questions of the last 3 books kind of sucks.

Book 11 you could tell he was sick, you can also tell he was trying to resolve book 10 and start wrapping up the story. Was it a good story though? At parts but more often than not it was still reading for the sake of reading to find out what happened to characters that you stopped liking 5 books ago/

Edited, May 28th 2008 5:21pm by bodhisattva

All of the main characters kind of split into a number of different story lines which all reach different level of painfulness. It gets dark, plodding and gets really thick. I'd go as far as to say that some of the plot lines are skippable due to the fact that it is like reading an encyclopedia it is so tedious. Rand's line gets really dark, won't go into due to spoilers but I believe one of the later books you barely see him at all for most of the story. Matt gets bogged down in Ebou Dar for a long time building towards thing foreshadowed in earlier books and there are some good moments but a lot of the story is slow as well. Perrin sees little love and thats sucks cause I like the guy.

Salidar vs Tar Valon drags out like molasses the entire way and with each page becomes more intolerable.

A myriad of "Game of Houses" type encounters with Andor, Tairens vs Illian, rebels, Aes Sedai and various factions which are just at this point beating a dead horse and not interesting.

As mentioned by Book 10 things slow down to a grinding halt and you are left with a book with absolutely no forward momentum at all. The individual story lines are seperated by huge chunks of other story lines which leaves you reading 80-100 pages of pure filler waiting to see what happened only to get 20-30 pages of fluff and be faced with another 100+ pages of nothing resulting at a net gain of 0 for the other all story except for one significant change.


It came back to the fact that on their own merit I wouldn't have even finished books 7, 8 , 9 or 10 except for the fact that books 1-6 were good enough to get me invested in the characters and I had to see what happened to them even if it meant plowing through an unenjoyable book.

I kicked myself for reading 7 - 9, skipped 10 and 11. Might read the last one if it really does tie up the story lines.

No you see alot of people complaining about how incredibly badly written books 8-10 are. No need to elaborate of what is badly written because ALL of it was badly written.

When 99% of people say "God this books sucks!" generally it's best to avoid it.

My favorite character is Lanfear, which is where my gaming name "Laifierr" originates from. I love WoT and can't wait to read the conclusion. I was about to get rid of all of my books, but I might hold on to them a little longer to read the series once more.

Unfortunately I got tired of the series by book 10.

It took you that long? I don't think I made it past book 8.