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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #30 on Jan 28, 2011, 1:58pm »
Haha shit I love nerding out about fantasy books. WoT is a travesty, but I can't stop reading it. One more book...one more book...
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #31 on Jan 28, 2011, 2:03pm »

Jan 28, 2011, 1:58pm, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:
Haha shit I love nerding out about fantasy books. WoT is a travesty, but I can't stop reading it. One more book...one more book...


I just started Towers of Midnight, finally. And I can hate on WoT all day with the best of 'em. Not really into fantasy anymore otherwise, though. I think what I really like about WoT is the magic system. Its just so damn cool.

Much more of a sci fi geek.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #32 on Jan 31, 2011, 2:31pm »

Jan 28, 2011, 1:58pm, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:
Haha shit I love nerding out about fantasy books. WoT is a travesty, but I can't stop reading it. One more book...one more book...


Alright, I finished ToM... someone must talk about it with meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......... Too many nerds at Dragonmount.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #33 on Jan 31, 2011, 4:36pm »
Don't you guys already have an anime thread and a videogames thread? Jesus.
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« Reply #34 on Jan 31, 2011, 7:27pm »
ToM - What's up? I liked it a lot. I read it several months ago, what is still sticking in your head?
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #35 on Jan 31, 2011, 8:17pm »

Jan 31, 2011, 4:36pm, interstateeight wrote:
Don't you guys already have an anime thread and a videogames thread? Jesus.


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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #36 on Jan 31, 2011, 8:29pm »

Jan 31, 2011, 7:27pm, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:
ToM - What's up? I liked it a lot. I read it several months ago, what is still sticking in your head?


Right now, Rand wading in to all those trollocs and fucking everybody's day up was a highlight for me. I wish there had been more stuff at the black tower. And Perrin and the Whitecloaks battling trollocs. Really, there was just a bunch of sweet trolloc slaughter.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #37 on Jan 31, 2011, 8:37pm »
Was Moiraine's rescue everything you wanted it to be? Because it was very satisfying for me but other people didn't like it. Mat was a badass again. And Perrin went a long way towards redeeming himself for being emo for the last seven books. But Egwene taking down Mesaana how she did was probably the most badass thing that's happened in the any book. SNAP. That was fucking sweet.

I have a feeling the BT resolution will have something to do with the series' resolution, which is why it's all put off until the last book. I hope.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #38 on Jan 31, 2011, 8:45pm »

Jan 31, 2011, 8:37pm, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:
Was Moiraine's rescue everything you wanted it to be? Because it was very satisfying for me but other people didn't like it. Mat was a badass again. And Perrin went a long way towards redeeming himself for being emo for the last seven books. But Egwene taking down Mesaana how she did was probably the most badass thing that's happened in the any book. SNAP. That was fucking sweet.

I have a feeling the BT resolution will have something to do with the series' resolution, which is why it's all put off until the last book. I hope.


Perrin totally redeemed himself. I thought he was awesome. The tower rescue was cool, but later and shorter than expected. I'm sure when I read it again I'll be like "omfg so coolzorz" but this time I was a little underwhelmed. Egwene went from being a character I didn't care for all that much to one of my favorites in TGS and ToM. And Mat... I love how he looks at women and thinks of them for "talmanes".
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #39 on Jan 31, 2011, 8:48pm »
Galad had an awesome moment too, with the crazy seanchan assassins.

I'm still wrapping my brain around what everything means. The Rand=Moridin thing especially. How's it going to end? Ahhhh
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #40 on Jan 31, 2011, 9:56pm »

Jan 31, 2011, 8:48pm, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:
Galad had an awesome moment too, with the crazy seanchan assassins.

I'm still wrapping my brain around what everything means. The Rand=Moridin thing especially. How's it going to end? Ahhhh


I'm just glad I didn't start reading until 1-11 were out. It would be effing maddening to wait like this if I had read EoTW when it came out. Which book do you think is your favorite? Least favorite?
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May 19, 2012, 7:49pm, onelove420 wrote:
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #41 on Jan 31, 2011, 10:03pm »
Pre-ordered Michael Showalter's book "Mr. Funny Pants" (funny story about that name), so I can have my research done when I see him on his book tour.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #42 on Feb 1, 2011, 3:45pm »

Jan 31, 2011, 9:56pm, J. Walter Weatherman wrote:

Jan 31, 2011, 8:48pm, DREW OF THE RUSHES wrote:
Galad had an awesome moment too, with the crazy seanchan assassins.

I'm still wrapping my brain around what everything means. The Rand=Moridin thing especially. How's it going to end? Ahhhh


I'm just glad I didn't start reading until 1-11 were out. It would be effing maddening to wait like this if I had read EoTW when it came out. Which book do you think is your favorite? Least favorite?


Drew! Drew! Answer my questions!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #43 on Feb 1, 2011, 3:55pm »
Shit sorry I didn't see them!

I started reading right before tPoD came out, and I've waited anxiously for every book since then, buying the prologues online, pre-ordering, etc. I've even participated in several message boards for WoT, but none recently as it's become too technical - there aren't any good crazy theories, it's mostly just ten guys that know everything answering a bunch of newbs' questions.

Anyway, at this point you can kind of break the books down into trilogies. 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, and 10-12. My favorite book is probably tSR, book 4. EotW would probably be second. That's close, though, because I love re-reading EotW again and again, just because the scope is so huge it's fun to see the characters before they knew anything.

I would say the first two trilogies are rock-solid, although by the end of LoC, book 6, you can start to see the problems that arise in books 7-10. Too many characters, too many subplots, and not enough movement in major story arcs. CoT, book 10, is probably the worst book in the series. CoS and tPoD are saved by some awesome moments, though they linger in the doldrums for the majority of their duration. But CoT has nothing redeeming about it, and I had such high hopes after how WH ended (cleansing the taint, which is what I do in the shower every morning).

KoD was solid, and these last two were awesome, but it's still too soon to rate them with respect to the rest of the series.

Phew, opened a can of worms. Okay, yours? Favorite/Least Favorite?
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers!
« Reply #44 on Feb 1, 2011, 3:56pm »
And have you read the WoTFAQ?
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