"Wheel of Time" Series - Robert Jordan

Knightmaire · not a custom rank. Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 637

Why is Wheel of Time so addictive?!! Damnit, i keep telling myself that i don't like it, but right after i finished book two i'm scrounging for money to grab book three...

and Yeah, i have this habit of boycotting the library. I don't think i've been there since fifth grade... except for once at the last few days of 8th grade, when we got kicked out cuz we were playing handball ^^

is it just me or does jordan elaborate a lot more on the women?

[edited for thread title by Owen - cheers Scott]

nukelavee · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 03:05 Post subject:

why are all the characters so annoying stupid?

but i am reading the new one.......

Rosey · Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 06:57 Post subject:

i feel i should read these. everyone insists that i do so immediately... but they're so loooooong :(

Vryce · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 11:08 Post subject: downward spiral

the series starts off amazing. i love the first three books, four and five are decent. from 6 the series is pointless. nothing hardly noteworthy happens in these huge books.

Vash Riftwalker · Posted: Wed Feb 26, 2003 21:32 Post subject:

It feels too forced, like Mr. Jordan is just looking for a way to pull a billion strings into one complete ending... and doing a bad job.

nukelavee · Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2003 13:41 Post subject:

yep - the last two are pointless, mostly.

i mean, they take me a few days to read (which is a good thing) but i wish he would just conclude the frikkin series, damn it!!!

Brandon · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 06:37 Post subject:

I couldn't get through the first book. The story seemed all right, but the characters sterotypical, the writing was tedious, and it seemed a little too full of itself in it's own intrique.

Beef? · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 430 Location: Lotion

I read up to the "Crown of Swords" and got really tired of it. His story ran out of juice after Rand?? got into the sword fight with that other guy that was really good and lost. I think that it would make the series worth reading if he lost in the end, but I doubt that will happen. How many are out right now anyway?

Brandon · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2003 05:28 Post subject:

Twelve. Potentially. The tenth just came out, and it's supposedly all build up, which has been consistant through the past three or four books. The next two are still unwritten and people think he's dragging it along a little too far.

Beef? · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Posts: 430 Location: Lotion

He was draging on too far after eight. They arent that great anymore.

btw -- Try Terry Goodkind. He comes highly recomended to me Have not had the chance to read him yet though

phorque · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2003 13:27 Post subject:

I've just finished book 7 and am reading Frank Zappa's autobiography as a break before I go onto book 8.

I love the series and have been addicted from the beginning. I love the story immensly.

My only criticism is that with so many characters and plots, the glossary needs to be better organised and more consistant. You never know whether to look up a character's first or last name and most of the time they aren't even in the glossary.

Other than that, it is without a doubt my favourite fantasy epic.

Jacomus · Mangina. Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 1 Location: away

I've read this series like five times but I'm finally sick of it. [Moderaterated- off topic]

IMF · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 10:39 Post subject:

I deleted some posts in this thread for not having anything to say about "Wheel of Time".

phorque · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 13:36 Post subject:

I finished book 10. It was naff. Nothing happened except at the end.

spazmonkey · Observer Joined: 17 Oct 2003 Posts: 32

orangemagellan · Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2003 18:22 Post subject:

I read a couple of 'em in middle school, go bored, and stopped....My brother got into them a couple of years ago, so I picked one up and tried to read it, but...it only took a paragraph to remind me that the story was too sucky to be as involved as it is, and the characters are all the same (read: annoying).

MadRider88 · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2003 01:16 Post subject:

I recently was forced to reread the series from the start (Minus book 4, as neither of us have it for some reason).

Just one little thing keeps popping up in the back of my mind and making me both laugh and wince. He repeatedly puts the 3 main male characters into situations involving women that don't turn out as they hoped, and then writes in "Why couldn't I be [insert name of another of the 3 characters], he's good with women and I'm not." It's moderately annoying.

Add this together with the fact that he takes fucking forever to actually elaborate much on any of the characters, and seems to think far too highly of himself as a writer (I.E. He decides to use almost entire books just to set things up for the next one, assuming that no one will care simply because he wrote it for a purpose), and the series can be pretty damned annoying.

Vash Riftwalker · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2003 05:26 Post subject:

He's a fucking terrible (Fantasy / fiction) writer.

In my humble opinion, he is almost as bad as Terry Goodkind...

Co-incidence I cant read farther than the first book in either series anymore?

NineBirds · Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2003 02:18 Post subject:

I read up to the sixth or eighth book. I don't remember--they all run together.

I stopped because the story became too drawn-out and stupid and the undercurrent of misogyny was becoming annoying.

tchocky · Mangina. Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 2

Ahhhhhhhhhh I've read that series. @_@

CuChulainn · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 03:40 Post subject:

I[I AM TOO STUPID TO USE AN APOSTROPHE]ve heard good things about this book from a (former, i think) friend. since joyce likely wont call around anymore one of you should give me one of these books for christmas, preferably the first one. i would still like to read them.

mentaldragon · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 20:07 Post subject: Re:

Mmm. I liked the first three...

I got up to like, book 8, I think....

I hate the characters. The plot has too many sub-plots, and takes too long to develop. All the characters start to act the same as you progress through the story, and for about five books (from 4-8, including those two) nothing actually happens. It's really pointless...

Daemon Aconis · Regular Joined: 12 Jan 2004 Posts: 75 Location: SoCal

Terry Goodkind... ugh.

I remember reading the first one way back when. It was good. Nothing spectacular, but good, solid epic fantasy.

Then he kept writing.

And Writing.

And Writing.

Now I just want Richard, and Kahlan, to die.

Bring back Chase and Zedd, the only two moderately interesting characters (okay, some of the Sisters of Light were interesting, and Sisters of the Dark were actually, amazingly, realistic characters)

CanadianGuy · Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 01:58 Post subject:

I read the books up until the 9th... haven't really gotten around to buying the 10th. I'm reading the next ones in the series out of morbid curiosity more than anything else. He's a good enough author that the books are capable of keeping readers interested, and I can never really remember where one books end or another begins, so he must be doing something right... Or maybe it's just me. That could be it too. Oh, and as to the whole problem with the glossary, Jordan made a huge book that contains information on all the people, and everything that is happening. It also alludes to a few things that will happen. Of course, it in itself is more work to read than one of the earliest books, but it has the distinct advantage of revealing more than any reader probably wants to know. Ruins the entire thing, really... good thing it was a friend of mine and not me who read it, isn't it?

Kyndig · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 05:50 Post subject: The Wheel of Time

Anyone wanting to become a lazy good-fer-nuttin couch potato for at least three weeks go ahead and pick up this series. Take some dough though, as of right now Robert Jordan has written 10 books in this amazing series and 1 novella. This series is easily in my top three, and probably my favorite fantasy fiction set ever.

Anyone read these books:

Favorite in the series?

Favorite character?

Any juicy rumors?

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