[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

I hope it does turn out that way for you. If you're not having fun with it, 12 books is a long haul.

[Illuyankas]

And if you don't like it, you can build a little fort.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

No girls allowed.

[Gabriele]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;336979 said:

I hope it does turn out that way for you. If you're not having fun with it, 12 books is a long haul.

It's the first three books, Raymond. If I like them, I'll buy the next set of three, but I'm not going to slog through 12 books if I lose interest halfway through. I've had to read books I didn't like at university and I'm no longer doing that. Life is too short and there are too many books.

[Gabriele]

Illuyankas;337002 said:

And if you don't like it, you can build a little fort.

That, or I can sell them second hand. Jordan is popular here, and there are enough people who read English, esp. in an university town.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Gabriele;337017 said:

It's the first three books, Raymond. If I like them, I'll buy the next set of three, but I'm not going to slog through 12 books if I lose interest halfway through. I've had to read books I didn't like at university and I'm no longer doing that. Life is too short and there are too many books.

Ah, but if you quit before finishing, anytime you get into a discussion about how they are no good, the pro-RJ person will be able to shut you down by pointing out that you haven't read them all. That's one of the the thigns that kept me going, so I could be qualified to discuss his flaws without someone telling me I didn't know what i was talking about.

Anyways, the first few aren't bad, they'll be good enough to get you to buy the next three. That'll be the real test of if you're going to finish or not.

[Gabriele]

Lol, I'll stay out of discussions then, but I won't feel guilty for not having read all books.

After all, I poke fun at a certain writer of chickens and almost rape on several forums despite the fact I quit Wizard's First Rule halfway through that neverending torture scene. Not because of the torture, but because it was so bloody booooring.

But I admit, I have yet to met a fan of his.

[Obdigore]

Gabriele;337055 said:

Lol, I'll stay out of discussions then, but I won't feel guilty for not having read all books.

After all, I poke fun at a certain writer of chickens and almost rape on several forums despite the fact I quit Wizard's First Rule halfway through that neverending torture scene. Not because of the torture, but because it was so bloody booooring.

But I admit, I have yet to met a fan of his.

They don't stick around long here. Go over to the Yearded one's website, and you can find lots of... interesting... arguments.

[Macros]

Obdigore;337060 said:

They don't stick around long here. Go over to the Yearded one's website, and you can find lots of... bullshit.

correct

[Gabriele]

I've been there once ore twice when someone from Westeros linked to a particularly juicy bit of .... interesting stuff.

But I spend too much time on the net already, with Westeros, this forum, a Writer's Site, a History Forum, and my Blog. I need to write a novel or two.
Not to mention the ones I only read like my LJ f-list, my Blogroll, Tower of the Hand, Roman Army Talk and several others.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Gabriele;337055 said:

Lol, I'll stay out of discussions then, but I won't feel guilty for not having read all books.

After all, I poke fun at a certain writer of chickens and almost rape on several forums despite the fact I quit Wizard's First Rule halfway through that neverending torture scene. Not because of the torture, but because it was so bloody booooring.

But I admit, I have yet to met a fan of his.

See, I like to torture myself in the name of understanding that which I hate. I read all but the last two books of that series before my willpower gave out.

[Morgoth]

Gabriele;337065 said:

I've been there once ore twice when someone from Westeros linked to a particularly juicy bit of .... interesting stuff.

But I spend too much time on the net already, with Westeros, this forum, a Writer's Site, a History Forum, and my Blog. I need to write a novel or two.
Not to mention the ones I only read like my LJ f-list, my Blogroll, Tower of the Hand, Roman Army Talk and several others.

I've gotten kind of tired of westeros lately. you can't discuss a book without getting post upon post making snide remakrs about TG. Sure it's fun to make fun of him from time to time, but surely it's not necessary in every single thread

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Yeah, you need to have a dedicated thread to hating on Tairy, otherwise every thread becomes a TG hating thread. It's that easy to hate him.

[Morgoth]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;337114 said:

Yeah, you need to have a dedicated thread to hating on Tairy, otherwise every thread becomes a TG hating thread. It's that easy to hate him.

they do have that. I think they're on their twentieth or something..

[Werthead]

Interesting, as I've got several friends who've abandoned this website for a very similar reason. You could almost say:

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I've gotten kind of tired of malazanempire lately. you can't discuss a book without getting post upon post making snide remarks about GRRM

The GK hating is mostly confined to the Goodkind thread, though his name occasionally crops up elsewhere. It hardly dominates the whole board.

Interestingly, two of the more reasonable Goodkind fans recently turned up and attempted to justify the series, which they seemed to do by mostly agreeing that half of it is crap but they like it anyway. Interesting approach.

[paladin]

except the snide remarks about grrm here are similar to ones about robert jordan. taking too long to finish up books/series and (starting to for grrm) dragging out storylines that dont need it.

TG hate is for totally different reasons.

[Terez]

Westeros has its own GRRM-hating thread, lol....

I think most of us bitch about book 4 more than we bitch about GRRM in general.

[Obdigore]

Really Wert?

Could you ask them which threads have all the snide remarks about GRRM, if they aren't about GRRM books?

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Werthead;337227 said:

Interestingly, two of the more reasonable Goodkind fans recently turned up and attempted to justify the series, which they seemed to do by mostly agreeing that half of it is crap but they like it anyway. Interesting approach.

I can respect that. There are some things you like in spite of yourself. I've read or watched crap and enjoyed it.

We do have too much TG bashing in random places. It's just so much fun though!

[Werthead]

News on Book 12 and now, apparently, 13:

From one of my colleagues on westeros:

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Onto WoT

Although he plans on submitting the manuscript as one work, he suspects that due to the size it will be released in two volumes, making the series 13 long...which he said he'd gotten emails from people requesting that he actually do that due to the significance of the number to the series.

He's writing it in chunks, basically picking two characters at a time and one particular scene towards the middle of the book and it writing up to that point, then hes going to continue from there when he has all of the characters. Final word count he's aiming for is around 675,000.

He also talked a bit about how he was approached to do the project...absolutely no warning, Harriet just called him up and asked if he wanted to do the last book. He said he actually e-mailed her the next day to reassure her that he was, in fact, not an idiot and was capable of talking in full sentences despite their previous day conversation.

As someone on Wotmania pointed out 675,000 words is almost as big as 6 and 7 put together, or three times the length of 8. There is no binding technology in existence that can hold together a paperback of that size, and a hardcover would be seriously pushing it.

Looks like we're going to get 13 books after all.