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Favourite Wheel of Time book
#1
Posted 22 April 2011 - 02:41 PM
Crossroads of Twilight is included for completeness only. I don't expect anyone to pick it and would be concerned for the sanity of anyone who does
#2
Posted 22 April 2011 - 04:50 PM
The Great Hunt. You really get to see how deep this series is going to go.
Blood Calls Blood, Damane, Blademaster, and The Grave Is No Bar To My Call are incredible chapters.
Blood Calls Blood, Damane, Blademaster, and The Grave Is No Bar To My Call are incredible chapters.
“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
#3
Posted 23 April 2011 - 02:35 PM
acesn8s, on 22 April 2011 - 04:50 PM, said:
The Great Hunt. You really get to see how deep this series is going to go.
Blood Calls Blood, Damane, Blademaster, and The Grave Is No Bar To My Call are incredible chapters.
Blood Calls Blood, Damane, Blademaster, and The Grave Is No Bar To My Call are incredible chapters.
It is a fantastic book, and my second favorite after The Fires of Heaven. TFoH has a bit of a slow start, but from the moment Rand and co come back over the mountains, all the way up to the very end, is as good as WoT gets IMO.
Ranking:
TFoH
TGH
LoC
TEotW
TSR
ToM
TGS
TDR
ACoS
KoD
WH
TPoD
NS
CoT
Actually I still can't decide if I like ToM or TGS more. TGS has the awesome Rand stuff but ToM is more consistently good.
#4
Posted 23 April 2011 - 02:42 PM
That's easy. THE FIRES OF HEAVEN for me. Easy choice.
"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon
#5
Posted 24 April 2011 - 04:05 AM
QuickTidal, on 23 April 2011 - 02:42 PM, said:
That's easy. THE FIRES OF HEAVEN for me. Easy choice.
D'accord. And nary a tugged braid, smoothed skirt or sniff to be seen. Big-arse battles FTW!
"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys
"I have strong views about not tempting providence and, as a wise man once said, the difference between luck and a wheelbarrow is, luck doesn’t work if you push it." - Colonel Orhan, Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City - KJ Parker
#6
Posted 24 April 2011 - 02:45 PM
End of Disc One, on 23 April 2011 - 02:35 PM, said:
Actually I still can't decide if I like ToM or TGS more. TGS has the awesome Rand stuff but ToM is more consistently good.
I had the same trouble deciding between those two. In the end TGS won out, since the awesome Rand stuff was just too awesome.
Roll on A Memory of Light, and I can't thank Sanderson enough for turning the series around and moving it so strongly towards what's sure to be a great finale!
Edit: And TGH is my favourite too, as I should have made clear in my original post.
This post has been edited by Quickie Ben: 24 April 2011 - 02:46 PM
#7
Posted 24 April 2011 - 09:36 PM
The Shadow Rising is mine. Goosebumps everytime I read about the Trolloc attack on the Stone.
#8
Posted 26 April 2011 - 01:17 AM
I'm stuck between LoC and tFoH. You got Rand being super badass at the end of tFoH. "He was death" was such a chilling line.
But then in LoC, particularly Dumai's Wells, everyone was being badass, even characters/factions we hadn't really seen until that point.
My vote ended up toward Dumai's Wells though.
But then in LoC, particularly Dumai's Wells, everyone was being badass, even characters/factions we hadn't really seen until that point.
My vote ended up toward Dumai's Wells though.
Why should I infect them with my rage?
#9
Posted 26 April 2011 - 12:36 PM
For me this is such a hard choice, if you had left the last two out I would have still have to pick between 3 or 4 as my favourite, obviously the first for getting me hooked, the second for things that have been mentioned, I like LoC and FoH, but you did include the last two and Egwene kicking Seanchan ass and Rand turning it around, OR Matt and Thom and the snakes and foxes and everything else Damn damn damn, i'll have to do a dip between them.
Apt is the only one who reads this. Apt is nice.
#10
Posted 27 April 2011 - 07:29 AM
For me it's The Shadow Rising. For the Rhuidean scenes, Skimming, Asmodean, the first hints of Rand's insanity plotline, coolness abounds.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
-- Oscar Wilde
-- Oscar Wilde
#11
Posted 27 April 2011 - 07:31 AM
jitsukerr, on 27 April 2011 - 07:29 AM, said:
For me it's The Shadow Rising. For the Rhuidean scenes, Skimming, Asmodean, the first hints of Rand's insanity plotline, coolness abounds.
Plus, "The Stone Still Stands!", Rand pawning Elayne and Egwene, and most importantly, Perrin's return and salvation of The Two Rivers.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
#12
Posted 29 November 2011 - 08:08 PM
Lord of Chaos for me.
Just. For the moment where the asha men raise their wards and the field pretty much turns into a meat grinder.
Love it.
Just. For the moment where the asha men raise their wards and the field pretty much turns into a meat grinder.
Love it.
#13
Posted 30 November 2011 - 06:50 AM
Christ, it's too long since I read them. I think I remember thinking the fourth and fifth book were awesome (because it seemed to get so dull for the next three or four.) Then it got awesome again but not as awesome as those two.
I never got around to picking it up again when BS took over. I probably should because I vaguely remember the end of the last one (when braid-tugging bint rode along the northern lands getting them to join her hubby when we passed by, that kind of thing) actually had me really excited for more.
I never got around to picking it up again when BS took over. I probably should because I vaguely remember the end of the last one (when braid-tugging bint rode along the northern lands getting them to join her hubby when we passed by, that kind of thing) actually had me really excited for more.
Captain of Team Quick Ben. Also teaboy.
#14
Posted 30 November 2011 - 03:39 PM
Kanubis, on 30 November 2011 - 06:50 AM, said:
Christ, it's too long since I read them. I think I remember thinking the fourth and fifth book were awesome (because it seemed to get so dull for the next three or four.) Then it got awesome again but not as awesome as those two.
I never got around to picking it up again when BS took over. I probably should because I vaguely remember the end of the last one (when braid-tugging bint rode along the northern lands getting them to join her hubby when we passed by, that kind of thing) actually had me really excited for more.
I never got around to picking it up again when BS took over. I probably should because I vaguely remember the end of the last one (when braid-tugging bint rode along the northern lands getting them to join her hubby when we passed by, that kind of thing) actually had me really excited for more.
"The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!"
“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
#15
Posted 30 November 2011 - 08:48 PM
acesn8s, on 30 November 2011 - 03:39 PM, said:
Of RJ's run, i have a great fondness for THE SHADOW RISING, altho the finale of LORD OF CHAOS is probably the single best moment in the series, imnsho.
"The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!"
Kanubis, on 30 November 2011 - 06:50 AM, said:
...I vaguely remember the end of the last one (when braid-tugging bint rode along the northern lands getting them to join her hubby when we passed by, that kind of thing) actually had me really excited for more.
"The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!"
I could forgive Nyneave virtually all of her braid-tugging for that scene.
Also the scene where despite being shielded, stabbed and beaten, she yanks her braid out of her head and uses it to strangle Greandel to death, then uses it like nunchucks on the Fades.
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#16
Posted 01 December 2011 - 08:37 PM
Abyss, on 30 November 2011 - 08:48 PM, said:
acesn8s, on 30 November 2011 - 03:39 PM, said:
Of RJ's run, i have a great fondness for THE SHADOW RISING, altho the finale of LORD OF CHAOS is probably the single best moment in the series, imnsho.
"The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!"
Kanubis, on 30 November 2011 - 06:50 AM, said:
...I vaguely remember the end of the last one (when braid-tugging bint rode along the northern lands getting them to join her hubby when we passed by, that kind of thing) actually had me really excited for more.
"The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don!"
I could forgive Nyneave virtually all of her braid-tugging for that scene.
Also the scene where despite being shielded, stabbed and beaten, she yanks her braid out of her head and uses it to strangle Greandel to death, then uses it like nunchucks on the Fades.
Yeah, she regained a lot of standing in my eyes for setting Lan up like that.
The Fades couldn't even see the braid-chucks coming.
“The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in fact, well-lit, which prevented it from being dark.”
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
― Steven Brust, The Phoenix Guards
#17
Posted 01 December 2011 - 08:41 PM
Hair'angreal ftw!
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