Khizan posted:

Once Perrin meets Faile all of his sections become absolutely loving insufferable.

BananaNutkins posted:

I have to stop being an alone wolf hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooowl

BananaNutkins posted:

EYE of the World is the best book, but also the one that is an inferior clone of Fellowship of the Ring. The boys leaving Two Rivers mirrors the journey out of hobbiton almost perfectly. But female Gandalf.

Torrannor posted:

Really? I liked that book.

You get a big confrontation with the Shaido later on, and the next "action scene" starts in about 5 chapters.

Torrannor posted:

You get a big confrontation with the Shaido later on, and the next "action scene" starts in about 5 chapters.

BananaNutkins posted:

That happens first in Winter's Heart, doesn't it? I thought that one was pretty good in parts. I liked all the build up to the black tower and arming everyone with crossbows on the battlefield.

The Ninth Layer posted:

If you're doing audiobooks the First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie has a fantastic narrator. Start with The Blade Itself.

Sab669 posted:

Spoilers for the 4 books I guess:

1) I started with Sanderson, and knowing Sanderson finished the series (and also always just hearing how good it is) I was really let down with the magic. It's not very well explained. A mile wide and a foot deep. Again, coming from a Sanderson book I was expecting it to be much more concrete.

2) I really don't like any of the characters. Nynaeve is a stubborn jerk, Perrin doesn't want to be able to talk to wolves, Matt doesn't want to be a lucky son of a bitch, and Rand doesn't want to kill all his friends. I get Rand and Matt's perspectives but the other two I don't. Egwene isn't bad and I really liked Loial. I don't much care for Elayne or Min though, they both met Rand like once and can't stop thinking about banging him. Or now in book 5, Aviendha is like "I hate you I hate you I hate you.. Oh I just woke up with hypothermia after teleporting to the arctic waste and falling into a river. Let's bang". And every male being like, "Ugh women are so confusing" and every female being like, "Ugh men are as dumb as oxen" is really not interesting.

3) I find the Aiel wholly uninteresting, and The Faith Militant is a tired trope by now. Maybe it was more interesting back when this was written, but... And also gently caress that one Whitecloak who is so insistent Perrin is a Darkfriend but then he himself doesn't do anything about the Trollocs in Emon's Field.

4) Every single encounter with the Forsaken was very unrewarding. Rand just effortlessly kills 4 of them in the first 4 books, culminating with Asmodean just running away while Rand chases him down. Every other character makes them out to be these big terrifying badasses and he just squashes them like bugs. Also Moghedien showing up in whatever town Nynaeve was in at the end of #4 and it's like, oh hey by the way mind control powers that make it so you can't lie or really remember any of this is a thing.


So ultimately it just boils down to I went in expecting something very similar to Sanderson and instead I just got a really slow series full of miserable characters in a world that happens to have magic.

I do really like the general notion of wheel of time and the cyclical nature of everything, I like all the ouroboros imagery, but I everything I do really like just isn't fleshed out. So really it's just lowering my expectations of how anything works and instead just trying to focus on Rand turning into a badass.

Also I think it was because I read 4 books straight expecting to learn more about the magic and it just doesn't happen. So now I'm probably just going to rotate 1 WoT book then something else.

I do actually really like Siuan's arc and look forward to how it works out.

Tunicate posted:

rule 1 of reading any novel is Always Skip The Prologue, the Way of Kings just has like three prologues

aparmenideanmonad posted:

You're confusing her with Siuan. It's definitely Moiraine due to the visual clues and also considering the biggest moment of FoH: when Rand is getting dunked on by a ragingly jealous Lanfear and can't bring himself to hurt her to defend himself, so Moiraine suicide tackles her into the doorway Ter`angreal and is gone until Sanderson takes the series over.

Sab669 posted:

I thought I saw a post recently where someone finished WoT #6 and said the last 5 chapters were great.

I just finished the book and that was a pretty badass last chapter with the expanding ring of body bursting

Did not like the epilogue though 🙄 Moghedian gets rescued easily from her adam for no apparent reason other than Jordan needs an additional bad guy I guess . Like this poo poo is what makes me not like this series.

I think starting with Sanderson as my gateway to reading has just ruined every other author for me.

55 chapters, 700 pages and... A 2 paragraph plot synopsis on Wikipedia Cool things happened in this book but also nothing happens in this book.

RC Cola posted:

Torrannor posted:

How far in are you right now? Getting through The Path of Daggers?

Torrannor posted:

Mashadar got him.

hot date tonight! posted:

I just made it through book 5 of WoT, the one where Nynaeve and Elayne join the circus. These books really didn't need this many words.

enigma105 posted:

The Wheel of Time has 2782 named characters, 147 have a PoV.

SynthesisAlpha posted:

Also from a practical standpoint, not including sexual content gives you a wider audience. My 12 year old is reading Sanderson's YA stuff and loving it, but I'm waiting a little bit to give him Mistborn because of the whole thing where nobles rape and then kill their skaa workers to prevent half blood misting babies.