[Dolorous Menhir]

I don't know, I think

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the incredible never-ending rescue of Faile

was the most needlessly prolonged storyline.

I did enjoy the final resolution though, when Perrin

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just wastes the Aiel who was helping Faile and nobody really cares.

[Optimus Prime]

That was a good ending to a crappy storyline..I agree DM.

I feel bad saying it...but anything that involves Elayne and Nynaeve pretty much made me want to page flip....

[Obdigore]

I love how
*Spoilers through the last written book of the series*

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they are finding ways around things like stilling and whatnot. Cleansing the male half of the source, everything is going to be ok. The last book better have Rand Explode the flippen world so its not all lovey-dovey.

midway spoiler.

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Mat having memories of hundreds of battles, and how/what to do suddenly implanted in him, along with his absolute 'oh god I don't wanna do this' attitude makes him, imo, one of the coolest, if not the deepest, characters in fantasy

[Optimus Prime]

Hehehe

I want a lot of blood in the last book. A great, big, final reckoning.

[Yellow]

I hate Mat. Can't remember which book it was, but the 5 million words that RJ devoted to

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him buying a damn horse and a stick

really kind of pissed me off.

[Obdigore]

Yellow;247780 said:

I hate Mat. Can't remember which book it was, but the 5 million words that RJ devoted to

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him buying a damn horse and a stick

really kind of pissed me off.

you mean:

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when he was escaping the aes sedai tower?

If thats not what you mean, I must have forgotten that part... probably purposefully.

[Yellow]

No, it was in either book ten or book eleven. Not sure which and can't be bothered looking it up.

[Optimus Prime]

Siuan Sanche.

Perhaps my most despised character ever.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Xander;248520 said:

Siuan Sanche.

Perhaps my most despised character ever.

Well, you can show a fish the lure, but not every fish will like it. Or some such other inane fishing analogy.

[Optimus Prime]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;248556 said:

Well, you can show a fish the lure, but not every fish will like it. Or some such other inane fishing analogy.

LOL, nice try.

I wonder sometimes if WoT just got too big for even RJ. That so many plots became too much for even the creator/writer of the story to handle.

I must say though...he did write a great action scene.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Yellow;247336 said:

Oh god, did that story line start in book 4? Damn, that man knew how to drag a plot out. Wait until you get to the story line about

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the bloody weather bowl thing

I think that one went on for two hundred actual years.

ANTI DOOM AND GLOOM...there are 10000 threads about boring WOT. Write about positive stuff.

Also, finished book 4 at last...just sat down and chugged the last 100 straight. Very good ending...I loved

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-the whole rescue of Emonds Field by Perrin (who is getting to be pretty badass) and very convincingly written by RJ, though I wish the fielders had ruined the whitecloaks' shit in the end
-siuan sanche STILLED...shocking and makes me excited to read the white tower arc
-the aiel crap and the pwn4ge in rhuidean
-rand now has asmodean to teach / backstab him AND the terangreals that control the giant saangreals.
-the dream world is getting to be pretty developed and cool
-perrin PWNS slayer, exposing lord luc as slayer's physical form.
-the battle with nynaeve and moghedian (or whatever her name is) because it describes quite nicely the mechanisms of stilling and shielding from the source.
-All the ladies get naked all the time now.
-Mat of course is starting to kick ass. Looking forward to seeing his char develop in the next books.

[Yellow]

I'll write what I like.

[Optimus Prime]

Oh the ends of book 4 and 5 are fucking brilliant.

Book 4 especially.....man that was good stuff

[Yellow]

Yes, it was. Best book in the series.

You happy now, cerveza?

[Optimus Prime]

Well..and how can I leave out the end of Book 6?? Equally as bad ass.

You know...WoT really is a good series...I've kinda forgotten how much I used to love it before I read SE...the last few books weren't as good...but still...smashing overall

[cerveza_fiesta]

@yellow,

I know man, I wasn't trying to be mean about it. Write whatever you think is relevant. I usually do. I was just pointing out that the point of the thread is stuff people liked about WoT, not about how its boring at the end, like all the other WoT threads on here.

Xander;249968 said:

Oh the ends of book 4 and 5 are fucking brilliant.

Book 4 especially.....man that was good stuff

the battle with asmodean simply ruled.

The whole lead up where rand is dodging all asmodean's traps and having the flamewar on the floating platform thingies inside the alternate dimension was aweseome. I just had such amazing colorful mental pictures in the end battle of Rand and asmodean locked in a stalemate, coursing each with half the power of the biggest sa'angreal ever just opening huge rents in the earth's surface and absolutely obliterating everything within ruination-distance with huge bolts of one power. It was really really well written. I had to read it twice because the first time was so exciting I skipped bits (something that happens in SE's work all the time).

Can't wait for book 5, but I promised myself I'd be fiscally responsible and read "the intelligent investor" first.

[Dolorous Menhir]

cerveza_fiesta;249739 said:

ANTI DOOM AND GLOOM...there are 10000 threads about boring WOT. Write about positive stuff.

Hard to stay upbeat when we're discussing a series that the original author isn't going to finish because he's dead.

[Aptorian]

It makes me smile, not having read the series, and thinking of all the little fans sitting out there... with no release

Then I think about the one year wait between the Malazan books, then it's not so funny

[Optimus Prime]

I think RJ left enough notes (hopefully) that all Brandon Sanderson will have to do is fill in the blanks.

[cerveza_fiesta]

I'm not artistic or thoughtful enough to really care if goodkind (:eek: did I say that?) finishes it based on RJ's notes. As long as its resolved in manner that makes me glad to have read the series and stayed with the 10000 plot arcs...it doesn't have to be RJ at all.

and apt, do yerself a favour and pick up the series. Its well worth the read. Books 1, 2, and 4 have been great so far, with 3 only a little behind, but no moreso than any of the malaz books were less good than the standouts.