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Wheel of Time bk13

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WoTmania · 24/09/2010 10:34

www.dragonmount.com/

I started a thread before but no one replied. I'm probably unreasonably excited but I read the first one when I was 15 so 14 years now.

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WoTmania · 04/10/2010 07:45

yes yes.

in bk12 Nynaeve admits that if Moiraine hadn't come along Rand would be in Shayol Gull or dead by now :) maybe Sanderson found her denial as irritating as everyone else?

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frakkinnakkered · 04/10/2010 06:43

Book 3 and Rand is already pissing me off, Mat is just getting over being boring.

I'm realising in a distant bit of my brain part of what makes it so good is how you get frustrated with the characters! It's like you forget they're actually just, y'know, fictional.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 03/10/2010 13:17

I love Mat. Him and his stick - yum Grin

I am on a slooow re-read - Book 5 at the moment. Am becoming annoyed by Siuan and Min and Leane simpering their way across the continent.

Am really looking forward to reading Gathering Storm - it should be here in a few days!

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WoTmania · 03/10/2010 13:08

I'm on a Mat bit in bk12. Grin

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QueenofDreams · 29/09/2010 14:55

Rand, noble? Hmm yikes. It's his sulking that gets me. Ooooh I'm going to go mad poor me poor me.

Argh I think my parents still have my copies of the Wheel of Time.

frakkinnakkered · 29/09/2010 14:32

Mat is indeed brilliant, and Rand is a wool-headed twit. DH sees things the other way round though...he thinks Rand is terribly noble Hmm

QueenofDreams · 29/09/2010 12:53

Carai al Caldezar. Carai al Elesande.

Mat is fab. Now I really fancy rereading these books. Wish I knew where my copies were Hmm

TrillianAstra · 28/09/2010 14:52

Mat was really boring for a book or two, being all ill and everything, but then he took out two highly-trained swordsmen with a stick. A stick that he had picked up to lean on because he was recovering from a serious illness. He is awesome.

QueenofDreams · 28/09/2010 14:49

soh Faile also annoyed me because she's so 'I'm so strong and independent' yet seems to spend most of her time needing to be rescued Hmm And she turns Perrin from an interesting character into a 2 dimensional idiot whose only function is to chase around trying to rescue her.

my favourite character is Mat. He's fabulous when he turns into a military genius. Rand just spends too much time moping about going mad.

frakkinnakkered · 28/09/2010 14:35

Nynaeve grows on you, I find. Egwene gets irritating though. Reallllllly irritating.

ShowOfHands · 28/09/2010 11:31

I love Nynaeve. She's feisty and doesn't like being controlled by the seemingly arbitrary machinations of a wheel. Better than sulky Faile and simpering Elayne. I do like Aviendha too.

DH always says that the multiple wives scenario seemed to be a bit of a fantasy projection. Why choose one woman when you can have two and a half. Elayne doesn't count as one as she's silly and simpering.

Whoamireally · 28/09/2010 11:21

Lol Nynaeve reminds me of my sister in law - everything is always someone else's fault.

TrillianAstra · 28/09/2010 09:51

Whinging and tugging her braid, don't forget.

QueenofDreams · 28/09/2010 09:43

Exactly trillian if Moiraine hadn't taken the boys away they would have been killed by trollocs or taken to Shayol Gul. The End. So after FOUR BOOKS of Nynaeve whingeing on about it I kind of gave up! (I do like those books it's just a couple of characters I find severely annoying)

TrillianAstra · 28/09/2010 09:01

"No good reason", yeah definitely Nynaeve.

Anyway, Moiraine didn't do it, the pattern did it, the wheel weaves etc blah blah blah....

QueenofDreams · 27/09/2010 23:09

Ah I loved the first 4 books but never got any further than that.

And Nynaeve annoys me with her silly illogical insistence on being annoyed that Moiraine evilly uprooted the boys from their lives for no good reason.

HumphreyCobbler · 27/09/2010 22:07

I will stick with it. Thanks for the tip.

pozzled · 27/09/2010 20:44

Oooh WoT fans- just saw your thread hijacking and thought I would say hi.

My DH has also been mithering for years, I have finally given in and am loving the books. But am only on Book 4 so I expect the last one will have been out for a year by the time I finally get there.

Whoamireally · 27/09/2010 18:20

I think I got up to about book 7 - and then started to get all confused. Bit annoying to get confused 7 books in. I'd have to start over to get back into it, and some of the early books are monsters.

ShowOfHands · 27/09/2010 18:03

DH mithered and mithered until I read them. And the first couple of chapters just didn't inspire me. I wanted to give up. But it gets soooooooo much better.

TrillianAstra · 27/09/2010 17:59

Be warned, the first chapter or two is a bit dull, it lulls you into a sense of 'this is a boring place where nothing ever happens' - but never fear, adventures will be thrust upon the characters soon enough.

HumphreyCobbler · 26/09/2010 20:16

I have ordered the first one after reading a conversation about these books on another thread.

I am strangely excited, you are all so keen. They must be great.

I can't wait for a new world to immerse myself in, I don't think I have had that experience properly for too long.

alLanMandragoran · 24/09/2010 11:19

Aah yes. I am a librarian and I like nothing better than a mishmash of books. My heaving bookshelves are a testament to that. But WoT was something dh introduced me to and they are his books. He is quite OCDish about them matching. It irks him that they don't now.

And I could take her. I've got loads of sticks. And I don't waste time braid-tugging.

alLanMandragoran · 24/09/2010 11:16

Ooh 7th Oct for the paperback Gathering Storm. £5.99 to pre-order from Amazon.

frakkinnakkered · 24/09/2010 11:15

Ditto Trillian. I have a right mishmash of styles and it doesn't bother me the way ones which change between mini-series do.

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