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Mad Hamish posted:Doesn't Aviendha think that Rand has unusually good eyebrows, or something? I seem to recall reading that at some point. Yes. Sulin teased her about it iirc.
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Totally believable. Gf is loving obsessed with trimming my eyebrows.
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"If I could make everyone obey, I would" Uh Rand you are veering into dictatorship
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:"If I could make everyone obey, I would" Yup, it's pretty blatant!
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Nov 29, 2019 19:56
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At least he's not talking about sand
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Data Graham posted:At least he's not talking about sand sandin
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Nov 29, 2019 20:59
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Also he's in the right because his evil laws are stuff like "nobles aren't above the law anymore" lol. Hard to be sympathetic to the high lords.
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Also he's in the right because his evil laws are stuff like "nobles aren't above the law anymore" lol. Hard to be sympathetic to the high lords. Would you say "The victory of the Light is all?"
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Some of the alternative governments are hardly better than a dictatorship anyway. Like the High Lords (and Ladies) of Tear for example. Or inheritable monarchies in general.
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That's entirely relevant to the point of "the main character is becoming outright evil"
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ChubbyChecker posted:Yeah, from The Shadow Rising, Chapter 22: Hah! I never got this, always assumed the book was talking about something like the tiny cat statues I bought to prank my mother with. (She likes dogs)
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Libluini posted:Hah! I never got this, always assumed the book was talking about something like the tiny cat statues I bought to prank my mother with. (She likes dogs) Uh
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So what's this about the Mercedes emblem?
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Vavrek posted:So what's this about the Mercedes emblem? It is mentioned in The Shadow Rising. quote:“A grand display of artifacts of Ages long past, of the Age of Legends and Ages before, open to all, even the common folk, three days in the month and on feastdays,” Eurian Romavni had written. He had spoken in glowing terms of the priceless display of cuendillar figures, six of them, in a glass-sided case in the center of the hall, always watched by four of the Panarch’s personal guards when people were allowed in, and had gone on for two pages about the bones of fabulous beasts “never seen alive by the eyes of man.” Egwene could see some of those. On one side of the room was the skeleton of something that looked a little like a bear, if a bear had two front teeth as long as her forearm, and opposite it on the other side were the bones of some slender, four-footed beast with a neck so long the skull was half as high as the ceiling. There were more, spaced down the chamber’s walls, just as fantastic. All of them felt old enough to make the Stone of Tear seem new-built. Ducking under the rope barrier, she walked down the chamber slowly, staring.
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These audiobooks are so very good. Not a whole lot seems to happen in Crown of Swords (so far) but Michael Kramer and Kate Reading give a lot of scenes some life they didn't have when I last read through the series. It's a low-event book with a lot of fun scenes. Kramer especially makes things really good, maybe because he always gets the Mat POVs. Every time he busts into his "random old man bumpkin answering a question of m'lord" voice I laugh, it's such a good voice.
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Pleads posted:These audiobooks are so very good. Not a whole lot seems to happen in Crown of Swords (so far) but Michael Kramer and Kate Reading give a lot of scenes some life they didn't have when I last read through the series. It's a low-event book with a lot of fun scenes. They're both amazing, yeah.
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Gnoman posted:It is mentioned in The Shadow Rising. Thanks. I never really notice the small pop culture references like that, since I'm trying to see things from a within-the-world perspective. Totally missed that, even if I kind of remember the passage. Y'all are making me think of listening to the audiobooks. I'm a fan of audiobooks generally, but have never listened to WoT, and it'd run counter to my current plan of looking up each and every single character every time they're mentioned. Well, I suppose I could pull up Encyclopaedia WoT on my phone. Decisions, decisions ...
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I mean it'll take you approximately two million years to listen to the whole series but as I recall the narrators are pretty good.
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If you have a long commute, it's amazing. Mine got shorter so I had to get shorter audiobooks instead of listening to it...again.
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I haven't really had a novel read to me since I was in primary school. I remember always being frustrated back then at how slow it was; and having to spend months getting a story dribbled out to you was just infuriating. I listened to that one chunk of AMOL in audiobook format, because it was released months before the book itself as a promotional thing and I felt the same way now as I did back then, it's just too weird and slow. I doubt it would work for me in a car either because when I'm driving I listen to music - an audiobook requires too much concentration. Listening to the Wheel of Time in its entirety would take 19 days, 5 hours and 25mins, vs my typical reading speed of ~100 pages per hour. Often I'll read WoT or something in little bits at a time over lunches and coffee but when I'm reading a book for the first time and super into it I often end up doing it in one sitting or as close to that as I can reasonably manage. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Yeah it's to taste; I get screamy at other drivers with just music, so I switched to books and podcasts.
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thark posted:I mean it'll take you approximately two million years to listen to the whole series but as I recall the narrators are pretty good. I’ve been listening for 3 years and I’m in the last battle right now. So yeah.
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I burn through like 7.5-8 hours of WoT time at work every day, so it doesn't take me too long. If I were Mat or someone who hung around the Core Group a lot I would piss off the uncrowned King of Malkier by always calling him "Land" Which is an idea I think would be good in a "Bored of The Rings" style Lampooning of WoT. Not just one book. I'm talking all 15(well 14 and 1 normal size) thick novels parodied Brolander fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Dec 1, 2019 |
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Honestly the worst part of the audiobooks is getting into the middle of someone's super twisting inner monologue that can run on for half an hour of reading, and then get to work. When you continue it may be hard to remember just who the hell is thinking right now. That said, I've run through the WoT audibooks twice in the last few years. It really is perfect for making commutes fly by. The first time I listened (had any exposure to, actually. I thought a 24hr audiobook would be the best choice for a solo roadtrip so EoTW it was) I was driving through remote Western Colorado as the party fled across the world, and it fit so well its like I was there.
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KNIFE OF DREAMS Jesus, I forgot about Rand barely giving a poo poo about his hand. Nynaeve is like dude you're in shock and Min is like nope he's not he's just buried it already yeah, Rand's fall is completely and totally believable and well done
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KOD Ok, gently caress Elayne. I had forgotten just how blatantly loving obvious the trap was, and that literally everyone tried to talk her out of it. jesus christ.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:KOD elayne sucks without redemption dyelin should be queen
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Elayne is usually a better character than Nynaeve until near the end of the series yeah thats fair, elayne only becomes absolutely 100% awful from when she gets back to camelyn
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awesmoe posted:elayne sucks without redemption One of my big problems with Elayne is that it feels like she gets everything she wants without really having to sacrifice for it personally. Egwene and the collar, Rand was in the box, Perrin and the Whitevloaks, Mat and everything in Rhuidean, etc. etc. Elayne gets to be Aes Sedai, Queen of Andor and Cairhien, her mother is alive, her better brother survives, gets to have Rand's kids, all of that without having to give anything of herself. If she'd come back, seen the possibility of a civil way and realised "Hey, supporting Dyelin means avoiding that and getting a loyal Ally and I can get to work on making Cairhien a stable country for what's to come," it would have felt a lot earned and would have made me a lot more sympathetic to her. As it was, she felt like any other Noble, putting her own ambition above her people and sacrificing their lives because she deserves to get what she wants.
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Hey that's not fair, she always feels sad when people die for her
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:Hey that's not fair, she always feels sad when people die for her If only there was something she could do to stop it. So sad.
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Just finished the last battle chapter. One big complaint I had most of the series is the insane amount of plot armor all the main characters have. Well there goes that! It was also wild to see how much poo poo Demandred hosed up. Only 4ish hours left in the audiobook. Feels odd after listening to this for almost 3 years now.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Just finished the last battle chapter. If you play chill no plot games like minecraft, throwing on an audiobook is also a perfect time. Between that (although I also use that time for podcasts) and listening as I fall asleep, I'm about halfway into book five within 2 months.
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Soonmot posted:If you play chill no plot games like minecraft, throwing on an audiobook is also a perfect time. Between that (although I also use that time for podcasts) and listening as I fall asleep, I'm about halfway into book five within 2 months. Pretty much any video game that doesn't engage the lexical part of my brain is a candidate for pairing with an audiobook/podcast, particularly if I can pause the action (or it's turn based). As a result, I've spent way more time on that kind of game over the last few years, slamming through several full podcast series and the complete works of a couple authors. I mean, I also spend a lot of time playing video games. That's an important part of the mix. The issue with listening to The Wheel of Time isn't that it'll take me years to complete, but that I had other books in mind first, and wasn't planning to revisit the series for a while.
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Lots of casting news today. https://twitter.com/wotonprime/status/1202258062515429377 https://twitter.com/wotonprime/status/1202256801539883009 https://twitter.com/wotonprime/status/1202256602117443585 https://twitter.com/wotonprime/status/1202256358470385664
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