Robert Jordan Wheel of Time

anyone read this??? whats the latest book???

everyone here hates Robert Jordan...you're barkin up the wrong tree kid.

>>2
Stop forcing your beliefs on what you believe is "everyone" - I don't hate Robert Jordan, I just couldn't be bothered to read the Wheel of Time series after the third book or so. The first book was good, the second one was alright but after that it got a bit tedious. I'm not sure but I think the latest book might be number 11 or 12 or something - I haven't checked that at all so it's probably wrong.

WoT sucks. I used to love it, but it just kept getting increasingly disappointing. The only people left reading it are masochists and packrats.

Once you start loathing all the characters, and are bored to tears by asinine politics and a snail-pace plot, well...

>>3
It is book twelve, actually.  Heh.

>>4
Not to mention that because of Jordan's deal with his publishers, he only releases a new one every two years--and he's slated for twenty books in the series.  By the time the shit's finally over we'll all be pushing thirty.

twenty books..

twenty fucking books..

you've gotta be kidding he shouldve just cut out all of this unnecesary crap thats filled the last 8 or so books and cut it down to 6 at most :|

Yeah, no shit. I realise I'm in the minority, but I actually enjoyed the first five books. Six was just terrible, and from what I've seen, it only gets worse.

You know the problem is? Other than overpowered jackasses and bitches with attitude problems? It's the fucking pace. Look at book one: it covers a whole year. Look at book two: similar. Ditto with three, etc. But every book that goes by, the period the book covers becomes increasingly short.

Once you get to a 1000 page book covering several days in minute detail, it just gets boring. I'm just waiting for Robert Jordan to think he's the next Joyce and crank out a book that covers only one day.

Twenty books? Where did you get that from?

Jordan has said that the twelfth (Knife of Dreams - the latest - is eleventh) book will be the last, no matter how large it'll get, which means pretty fucking large, even by his own estimates. If you've read the eleventh, the signs are pretty clear he's ending it soon, even so much that I thought some of those signs were just pulled out of his ass so he could cut it shorter.

That is, unless he kicks the bucket of his illness before that.

i rather like all the books, but much like Terry Goodkind, i wish the poor chracters could get a break allready...

Volume 12, tentatively titled "Memory of Light" will be the last. Jordan has a fatal illness, which is why he's finishing up so fast, though he claims to not be rushing or omitting anything.

This says it all.

http://members.tripod.com/dk88/fanfic/wot.htm

>>11
Indeed it does. Win.

wow ddnt realize you guys hate WoT ... always thot alot of ppl like it >.> thats why i gave it a chance :P neways it does drag on alot.... but im a packrat... and i have to finish the story oO

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>>14
I like where this is going.

>>13
Yeah, well, most of us used to like WoT too.

Until Robert Jordan started raping it.

Call it hate born from disillusionment (or disillusionment born from hate, depending on how you look at it).

12 books, only about a quarter of them are relevant to actual plot.

He could have just written six or so books, had the story completely finished with, and called it a day.. but noooooooooo.

Now he's probably going to be an asshole and die before it's finished. What a fucker.

hahaha, that was funny.  It would be a pretty dick thing to do to die, eh?

>>18
HE HAS A BONE DISEASE LOL

its a blood disease.

>>13
The problem is, that although the first books are still great from an objective standpoint (at least, they were when I was a teenager), once you've read deep into the series, all of your perceptions will be coloured by the loathing you feel for the characters and the style of later books.  Book one may be beautiful and magical, but it can't ever be the same after knowing how it all ends up.

I haven't read one since 7 (or was it 8?), and it is a certainty that how it actually ends is irrelevant.  RJ may as well die before finishing it, because the series, the *good* series that we all fell in love with itself died long ago.

Read the first three books.  If you really love it, go ahead and read the next few, but do not read book 7 and onward, because you will end up bitter, and feel ill whenever you think of the series, even those first books which we all wish we could still like, but which have been tainted by association.