[Macros]

I know you are but what am I?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Terez;334754 said:

You and he should get along well then.

Ooooohhh BURN!!!!

[Abyss]

Y'know, this is more interesting that 97% of the threads on the various WoT sites and boards...


- Abyss, figures it's the overall higher intelligence level....

[Terez]

That's why I like Theoryland better than Dragonmount. It's smaller, so it doesn't attract all the total nitwits. I don't like Wotmania's setup, so I don't read their threads. If you can call them threads. So I can't say anything about the quality of them. They have nice reference pages, though.

[Werthead]

I think Dragonmount is okay, mainly because they don't actually have an other books section over there and I can go in and ditch tons of recs on their heads. One person actually read Malazan and immediately declared it their favouritest series ever, even more than WoT. Got quite a few converts out of that. Not sure if any of them came over to this board though.

I hate Wotmania's formatting, but the Other Fantasy section is interesting and it was the first fan forum I ever visited, so I hang out there for old times' sake.

Book 11 is better than any book since seven (I have a lot of time for seven, it's the last time the series really made me go, "HOLY CRAP!" at an excellent plot twist or five, and the only time Jordan ever 'does a GRRM' and kills an important character completely out of the blue), but it does have a lot of problems. RJ was consciously doing 'damage control' in this book and didn't have a lot of time to give events their full resonance and meaning, he just had to tie off one plotline and move onto the next. It's a bit like being driven somewhere by an elderly person who is taking it nice and slow for ages and then suddenly slams on the accelerator and starts screaming, "WHO IS THE MAN? WHO IS THE MAN?" It's rather disconcerting.

[Gabriele]

Someone owes me a new bookshelf now.

Ordered the first set of 3, but knowing myself I may order the second set as well if I happen to like the first, and then get pissed because book 4 or 5 will turn out to be bad.

[Abyss]

Nah, the first six, to various degrees, are all good fun.

7-10, welllll.... i dunno, some people claim when you read them all together and into Book 11 it's not nearly as bad as it seemed reading one every other year or so.

- Abyss, did it the hard way.

[Cougar]

I am never going to criticise the WoT again, I'm scared that if I do I'll wake up in the middle of the night to the strains of the Brandenburg Concerto and find a fanatical itty bitty kitty at my throat with a tiny heron marked blade!

[Gabriele]

Abyss;335166 said:

Nah, the first six, to various degrees, are all good fun.

How big a role do the women play in 4-6? Because I'm easily annoyed even by well written female characers (Sansa and Catelyn, though the latter is almost fun to hate) and clichéd ones can spoil a book for me (teh worzt evah was Ce'Nedra). And what I've heard about all that braid tugging and I love him, I hate him, I love him... ranks highly on my annoyance list.

[Aimless]

Gabriele;335186 said:

How big a role do the women play in 4-6? Because I'm easily annoyed even by well written female characers (Sansa and Catelyn, though the latter is almost fun to hate) and clichéd ones can spoil a book for me (teh worzt evah was Ce'Nedra). And what I've heard about all that braid tugging and I love him, I hate him, I love him... ranks highly on my annoyance list.

The women, in 4-6, aren't bad at all actually... and some of them (eg. Moir) are plain awesome this is still largely before the lesbian erotica phase.


My own appreciation of the books was very much enhanced by the WoT book-forum, btw. I never liked the other WoT-sites, but the discussions on my "home" forum made the world of WoT come alive to me in a way that no other series has since.

If you get the chance, check out this book (but don't buy it!) and also the FAQ

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Gabriele;335186 said:

How big a role do the women play in 4-6? Because I'm easily annoyed even by well written female characers (Sansa and Catelyn, though the latter is almost fun to hate) and clichéd ones can spoil a book for me (teh worzt evah was Ce'Nedra). And what I've heard about all that braid tugging and I love him, I hate him, I love him... ranks highly on my annoyance list.

Take everything about Sansa, Catelyn, Ce'Nedra, and Polgara that annoys you, add it together, and give those traits to every single woman in the books, and you'll have a decent idea of what you've got coming.

[Aptorian]

*tugg braid, smooth skirts*

[Gabriele]

Aimless;335196 said:

this is still largely before the lesbian erotica phase.

There's a lesbian erotica phae? OK, I'll make sure to skip that one, I'm not the target audience. Now, two hot guys having some fun would be another matter.

Well, let's see how I'm going to like the first three. If I do, I'll buy the next set and book 11, and read the summaries of 7-10 on Wikipedia or that Wotmania site if it has them.

[Gabriele]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;335200 said:

Take everything about Sansa, Catelyn, Ce'Nedra, and Polgara that annoys you, add it together, and give those traits to every single woman in the books, and you'll have a decent idea of what you've got coming.

Ouch, that doesn't bode well even for the first three books.

[Aimless]

No no no, get number 7 as well! It's got lots of Mat

He has a lot of fun with a hot gholam.

[Gabriele]

Aptorian;335201 said:

*tugg braid, smooth skirts*

Do we get a detailed description of the skirts as well?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Very detailed. They talk about the skirts they are wearing, the skirts they have worn in the past, the skirts they hope to wear in the future, the skirts they profess to not like for being too girly but secretly want to wear, and their favorite types of skirts to wear in general. Shoes, too.

I'm not even joking.

[Gabriele]

And that from a male writer?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Yeah, it's like he had a strange idea of what women think about. Not that women never think about those things, but why he decided ALL of his women should think about it ALL of the time is beyond me.

[Gabriele]

Hehe, I doubt very much I'd think about my skirts when running away from monsters of fighting the minions of the Evil Overlord.

I'd get me chainmail anyway, and not just a bikini.