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So I can only read one of these books at a time. As in, have to read something else between each book. This happen to anyone else? His long winded style wears out my brain and I can't handle it lol. I'm currently on book 4, almost done, and I've heard it only gets worse, is this true?
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339. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan – 2 / 15 / 09
340. The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan – 2 / 27 / 09
341. The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan – 3 / 7 / 09
342. The Shadow Rising – Robert Jordan – 3 / 15 / 09
343. The Fires of Heaven – Robert Jordan – 3/ 22 / 09
344. Lord of Chaos – Robert Jordan – 4 / 1 / 09
345. A Crown of Swords – Robert Jordan – 4 / 15 / 09
346. The Path of Daggers – Robert Jordan – 4 / 21 / 09
347. Winter's Heart – Robert Jordan – 4 / 29 / 09
348. Crossroads of Twilight – Robert Jordan – 5 / 13 / 09
349. Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan – 5 / 26 / 09
It took me over three months but I managed to read them back to back to back. I would normally read that number of pages in 4-6 days but I just took those books really slowly. I can't read an entire book without a break.
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Yeah, I'm generally a pretty fast reader, Wise Man's Fear & Way of Kings in about 5 days. Yet his books all take me at east two weeks, dragon reborn I actually stopped and came back to a month later.
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learn how to skim but still take in information so when it gets boring you can just skim through tons of pages of at a time. that's how i got through the lord of the rings books.
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Wait, you didn't read all of those delightful little poems, songs, asides and etceteras?
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learn how to skim but still take in information so when it gets boring you can just skim through tons of pages of at a time. that's how i got through the lord of the rings books.
Its what I find myself doing most of the time.
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My mother did WoT on CD.
Can you imagine having to sit through every bloody word?
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Yossarian_42 posted:
My mother did WoT on CD.
Can you imagine having to sit through every bloody word?
I would give-up and burn them half way through the first book
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For me, I find myself reading these almost completely without skimming (and back to back). I don't know what it is but despite some people's opinions that certain books are not as good I have enjoyed each one of them. I recently began re-reading the sword of truth series... and am finding that I'm skimming through many sections that i don't remember skimming before.
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I found myself skipping whole chapters at times when 90% of the chapter involved describing the clothes the women were waiting interspersed with a load of sniffing and braid pulling. The last one Jordan wrote and the Sanderson ones are when it gets better again.
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3 > 2 > 1 > 4 > 9 > 8 > 11 > 5 > 6 > 7 > 10
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It took me 4 years to read the first 5 books. I kept getting distracted by other books.
In February I picked up book 5 again, and finally finished all of the rest.
A lot of people say the last couple of books are better, and I agree. I bought a Kindle around that time and it's been a delight reading with it.
I've come to adore Mat a whole lot...
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Mat really becomes a much better character. He went from my least favorite to more or less my favorite over the last few books.
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Mat really becomes a much better character. He went from my least favorite to more or less my favorite over the last few books.
I have the same exact feelings. He's super cool now, lol.
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Currently re-reading these myself. When I read the 1st 11 the first time it was all in one stretch over about 4 months (this was right when number 11 came out.) So now that there are more books in it to read I decided to reread them all. I have a 45 min commute 4 times a week, so for those 90 minutes I listen to the audiobooks of WoT and then read where I left off. Currently on book 7. Going slower even with the supplement of audiobooks, but I suppose it was summer time last time I read them and I wasn't married with a kid...so my reading time has narrowed considerably.
The audiobooks aren't bad though. I find it easy to have it read every word. Like those 100 pg prologues....they kill me to read, but on the audiobook it just trucks on through and it's not a big deal.
Mat is an awesome character though, Perrin's always been the one for me that is the most boring of the 3 main males.
I don't think I ever skim anything in a book though...it's like a small OCD thing for me I think. I don't even really like to skim in text books. I'm definitely a slow reading compared to others, but I think I take in a lot more than someone who reads faster.
I'm looking forward to getting back to book 11, I remember that it basically felt like the entire book was leading to a climax on several parts and then there wasn't any resolution.
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I think one of the biggest flaws in Jordan's writing is the large number of main character he has at any one time with nothing really to do. He keeps them in the books to maintain their presence even when their storyline is at a standstill while others catch up. The over-arcing story is 14 books long but no character's personal story needed to be more than 1 book.
Perrin is the biggest victim of this problem. He is the least interest character because he has the most drawn out and least interesting storyline. Every character has spent time sitting around turning their heels in second rate plotlines but his entire story seems to fall in to this pit. Jordan needed to establish a few things with him - his leadership, the army that follows him, his alliances, his personal character, etc. but this all could have been done in one solid plotline, not the drawn out mess that is his story due to Jordan needing to stretch it to 8 books instead of 1.
The only character I enjoy less is Egwene and the entire book of sitting outside the tower doing nothing.
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Agreed.
Though, when I re-read the series recently, I really apriciated how much the characters develop. Doubly so for Rand, but the others as well. Perrin is probably the one who falls the shortest here, as he has almost no personal growth, things just change around him. (But then again, he was always the one who was the most "adult" of the the gang to start with..)
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