[Macros]

isn't cadsuane the really annoying old bitch? Thinks shes the dogs balls and all that?
Rand needs to join the slap-a-ho tribe and knock them all out
Morraine was acceptable because she disappearded before annoying me too much.

[acesn8s]

Macros;301409 said:

isn't cadsuane the really annoying old bitch? Thinks shes the dogs balls and all that?
Rand needs to join the slap-a-ho tribe and knock them all out
Morraine was acceptable because she disappearded before annoying me too much.

Yeah, that is Cadsuane. So far her role has been reminding Rand that he's still puts his pants on 1 leg at a time.

RLY, read book 11. Book 10 was the biggest disappointment for me. 11 got some stuff done.

[Obdigore]

Frankly, after getting the triple marriage thing from Jordan, I was half-expecting a rand-elayne-morraine threeway.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Obdigore;301648 said:

Frankly, after getting the triple marriage thing from Jordan, I was half-expecting a rand-elayne-morraine threeway.

Hoping for something like this is all that's keeping me going through the rough patches. (Such as books 5 through 10.)

[cjd262e]

After "Lord of the Rings" Jordan was the first fantasy author I read. Fortunately, for me 9 books in the series had already been written. So anyway, I like him because he helped to get me hooked on the genre.

I actually was fine with most of the books. Ten was bad, but I did enjoy seven a lot. There is no question 6-10 drag a bit, and I know Jordan was accused of stalling the story to make more money. (Especially the case in ten, where I think it covered a single day).

However, I still feel a lot of the venom directed at books 6-10 are because people waited so long for them to be released and they weren't quite as good. The books read straight through, didn't seem that bad. I would be interested to see if some of you guys who are reading it straight through for the first time feel the same way I did. Also, everyone told me those books were terrible before I read them. It was comparable to someone telling you a movie was horrible, and then watching it and being pleasantly suprised because it wasn't as bad as you thought it would be.

Although, I will admit, I did become extremely tired of Aes Sedai who's names started with A's, M's, and S's. How in the world could anyone possibly keep all those names straight?

[cjd262e]

Obdigore;301648 said:

Frankly, after getting the triple marriage thing from Jordan, I was half-expecting a rand-elayne-morraine threeway.

I would be all for this as well. Someone needs to write Sanderson and ask him to sneak it in the last book. However, I think he's a Mormon guy, so I don't know if he'll bite on that.

[Obdigore]

I didn't say I wanted to see that happen, I was saying with Jordan pushing his personal fantasies into the series, I wouldn't have been suprised to see it happening.

[cjd262e]

I know, I was commenting more on Raymond's post.

[Optimus Prime]

My favorite oddity from WoT was how most of the women had nice perky breasts.

That and how there were over 20,000 "wise" sayings on explaining how women and men were different.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

One of the things that bugs me is how it seems like he realized that ALL of his female characters were identical, so he added one trait to each of them in a half-hearted attempt to make them stand apart.. (FAIL, btw.) Every woman is exactly the same, but this one always has sayings related to fish, this one is obsessed with stout woolen clothing, this one has a lot of piercings, this one is taller than average, this one has a different amount of warders than is customary for her ajah, and so on and so forth. Weak.

[Cause]

Spoiler

For all that I bash the series one of the most powerfull feeling I have ever felt reading a book, watching a movie or hell even real life was when rand gets captured by the tower aes sedai in book 6 or round about their. I was actually scared for him, angered by the plot direction (Rand to me has always been meant to be an epic hero, that he got out fought here so bad upset me). I had a tightness in my chest.

[Yellow]

Aye, that was a great set-piece.

[acesn8s]

Yellow;302700 said:

Aye, that was a great set-piece.

Agreed, and the desperation in his attempts to reach Saidan was some great writing. The battle of Dumai's Wells was great.

[Optimus Prime]

WoT has great moments, it's just the pointless side plots that drive me crazy.

Spoiler

1. Faile's whole abduction plot made me want to go on a mass killing spree. 2. The whole Bowl of Winds pursuit was WAYYYYY TOO LONG. 3. Why did it take so long for the Trollocs to start destroying shit? I love the idea of Trollocs but they weren't used very well IMO. 4. The Forsaken are idiots! With all this knowledge of the One Power and power, they can't do shit! Besides Ishamael/Moridin they are all sissies!

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

cjd262e;302531 said:

I know, I was commenting more on Raymond's post.

Which was a joke, by the way.

[cjd262e]

Raymond Luxury Yacht;303153 said:

Which was a joke, by the way.

I know, I thought it was funny, I was joking as well. I don't really think anyone should send Sanderson a note asking him to include a threesome.

[Illuyankas]

cjd262e;303597 said:

I know, I thought it was funny, I was joking as well. I don't really think anyone should send Sanderson a note asking him to include a threesome.

Too late.

[Optimus Prime]

I wonder how many pages the final book will be? I just can't see it all being tied up in one book.

[Trull's son]

I've heard that the final book will be 1500 pages long, but finished bu an author that I've never read before. it should be interesting, especially since RJ pulled out of the swamps that where Winter's heart and Crossroads of twilight with Knife of dreams. it was the best in a long line of rising action books that RJ wrote.
Just a comment.

Spoiler

I enjoyed reading of Rand throughout the series, mainly because i kept wondering how he was going to manage to fight ANYTHING when he had to vomit every time he needs to channel. although he kept getting "harder" as it is put, i found the scene where one of the forsaken blow his hand off somewhat funny. not "haha you just got handicapped" funny, but more of a "omfg he lost a hand and doesnt even care...What a freak!"

[Optimus Prime]

Rand's character is at times amazing and at other times so aggravating that I can't stand to read about him anymore. Perrin really pisses me off and Mat is my favorite of the trio.

Spoiler

I just want the Forsaken to fuck everyone up. It really hasn't happened yet and appears it won't.