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Any Wheel of Time fans out there? I'm totally psyched for the new book. I'm currently re-reading the series and am halfway through Winter's Heart. Anybody else a fan of the series? ***Please no spoilers on the Gathering Storm***
- November 2nd, 2009, 07:27 pm
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read through book 5 or 6 (where they find that bowl that controls the seasons) and then I just gave up. Way too many plot lines, an entire book without Mat, another without Perrin (as I recall) dozens of women that "can out stare an oak tree", no battles for thousands of pages at a time etc. -_-

I worked with a guy one summer who was neighbors with the late Robert Jordan in Carolina. He visited his house once with his father and said there was porn *everywhere*. In retrospect there is a lot of pretty lewd stuff (the S&M relationship with those people on the leashes, rand's "threesome", "sexy" red Aes Sedai); not offensive to me but it certainly explains a lot :P the guy I worked with had never even read any of his books (so I am inclined to believe him).

my brother and his friend tell me the books have been getting very good lately. I just can't bring myself to navigate 10,000 pages of all of it. But I can relate to your excitement for it! it is quite an epic scale that is fun to be immersed into! I think NBC bought the rights to the series - not sure if they could ever do anything with them. It makes LoTR look tiny and encapsulated by comparison.
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