Anyone else looking forward to the last WoT book?

tell me more please [intrigued]
i don't know what you are talking about

I don' think it is fair to suggest RJ was 'not capable' of finishing what he started. Unexpected incurable and sadly fatal illness intervened: he was far too young.

I am as frustrated as the next fan about his diverting himself into the prequel etc instead of finishing the main story arc, but he didn't know he was time limited.

I stopped at book nine or ten I think, and then threw them away. I just didn't think I could cope with re-reading them all again (even though they were quite enjoyable), and they seemed to me the sort of series where you had to remember what happened in book one to follow the action in book ten. I kept muddling the characters up because there were so many people with similar names, and forgetting who had been revealed as wicked etc

To be honest I have my doubts about authors who appear incapable of finishing what they have started - often the books get less and less compelling as they go along, and then finish with a real anticlimax. It seems to be an unfortunate feature of Fantasy books (which I love). Now I avoid starting any series where I can see there is already a row of them, and especially where there is a one a year thing going on. That said I am really looking forward to both the next R.R. Martin and the next Janny Wurts!

It is long-winded. But not (IMO) unnecessarily.

But of course I would think that.

I'm impressed that so many have managed to stick with the WoT series. I started reading it years ago and absolutely loved the first few books. Got as far as about book 7 (I think) but I got really fed up with it as it seemed so unnecessarily long-winded.

Only got as far as book 10 so have skipped most posts as I don't want to spoil this!

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Reading that first sentence makes me want to see one of the Black Ajah doing an Ali G impression!?

I think she's just foolish and annoying. Bonding Rand is obviously very nasty, but now she gets so much of his pain etc down the bond that she's gone a bit wimpish and pathetic.

Isnt Alanna black? Or is it she is just annoying? I am really enjoying the bits in the White Tower where they hunt out the Black Ajah, I think there will be many many more than they ever thought possible. Remember in EotW it was a hush hush never spoken of thing, now they are everywhere!

Must start my re-read soon I think! This thread has got me thinking about it all again!

Yep big at Alanna.

I don't think he's actually married to any of them, is he? There's a big freaky warder bond thing going on though.

Actually - on first reading, my brother and I also stopped around book 5 because we got bored. Then bizarrely about 7 years later we picked it up again and hooked our sister up too. So your DP just needs to persevere... or start from the beginning!

I can't believe I'm only joining this thread now! I think Trillian and I chatted about this before (in the nerdy star trek thread! )

I hadn't heard about making it three volumes. Teeny bit annoying, but at least we're getting somewhere finally. Rather cynically, one does wonder if this is all about keeping the gravy train going. God. I am horrendous.

I am definitely going to have to reread completely between now and then, which just means another big argument with my various siblings about who owns which book (you'd think with three of us all reading the same thing for the last 20 years we'd have figured out to LABEL them by now...!).

As the books go on, Matt and Perrin definitely become more interesting whle Rand gets less and less interesting. Although I've always loved the multiple wife thing and thought that was quite funny. Please remind me - Min hasn't become the third wife yet?

I am trying to get DP to read them, but he doesn't allocate time to reading in quite the same way I do (and in fact I spend less time reading now there is MNing to be done!). He's got as far as book 6 but is slownig a lot, nto sure if he'll make ti all the way as the later ones do drag on a little. He's saying that Egwene is boring, but I know that he must be nearly at the point where she gets dragged off to you-know-where to be you-know-what (or maybe you don't, which is why I wrote it like that ).

3 books? oh good grief.Though as long as I have something to read in the autumn...But I want to know how it ends!
Yes ,I want to know about Verin,and Cadsuane.(and who the un-identified Forsaken are in the real world).
Much prefer Mat to Perrin and Rand.Is anyone else annoyed by how catty and vindictive the women are,in general? Everytime I re-read this annoys me more..

Do I have time for a great re-read before the next book?

I find it reassuring that it wont fit in one book!

I have been reading some of Brandon Sanderson's stuff, and actually he is pretty good! Elantris is really very good. Enough to reassure me.

My main worry is that some of the smaller hints wont get tidied up. Especially about Verin, and what happened when she was young.

This is why you should really only read things written by people who are long dead. Then you know in advance if a series is finished or not.