I just finished book #10 of Robert Jordan's stupid series.

But the thing is, this is both annoying and also kind of impressively audacious. I don't think that Jordan is intentionally stalling so much as just suffering from a bad case of being fascinated with the cataloguing of all of his characters' inner worlds to an obsessive-compulsive degree.

It's like, the series started off as Lost and somewhere along the way became The O.C.

But I mean.... fuck! I started reading them when I was still going to little kids' summer camp and here I am entering the adult world.

I love the recurring plot trinkets as well, the plot intricacy is the best thing about the series I reckon. What I'm referring to are situations like seventy pages of Perrin worrying about nothing in particular or Aviendha and Elayne envying eachother's hairsytles.

Did the sorceress woman who vanished through the magic doorway ever come back?

Gene Wolfe's forst set of books abt Severian the Torturer pwn these books in just about everyway, mind.

Moiraine? Maybe. Maybe not.

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Anyway, this is tempting me to "catch up", except I'd have to read them all from the top, and that's a mighty slab of pulp.

Yeah but it would be better if he did more of the "fucking people up" and less of the "think about anything except Berelain's legs" guilty repression trips.

i finally finished nine, which was fucking tedious and terrible.

read "A Game of Thrones" by George R. R. Martin instead. First book in the best fantasy series of the decade.

SHIT IS SO GOOD. READ IT ALL UP.

Yeah, i think I started in 1994! I have not read a fantasy book in yonks I think. And yet i am vaguely pondering the impending release date with anticipation...

"Q: What is the worst lie you've ever told?
A: It's hard to think of one since I am genetically incapable of lying to women and that takes out 52% of the population right there."

"Q: If you could have one superpower what would it be?
A: That depends. If I'm feeling altruistic, it would be the ability to heal anything with a touch, if that can be called a superpower. If I'm not feeling very altruistic, it would be the ability to read other people's minds, to finally be able to get to the bottom of what they really mean and what their motivations are. "

Also, worst cover yet!

No it was 1992! That is wrong.

I now won't start a fantasy series until all the books have been published. So I'm denying myself the GRR Martin and the Stephen Erikson books that are meant to be really good.

I delude myself into thinking that Jordan means it when he says that it'll all be finished in the next couple of books and that one day I can go back to it and read the whole thing from beginning to end.

I've been tempted, over the years, to write to Jordan informing him of these strange things called "editors". It's been 15 years and he still hasn't got anywhere near the bloody point, I know kids who are reading them who weren't born when the first one was published. And I'm also sick of his characters being trapped in permanent adolescence or (in the case of his female characters) permanent PMS.

omg wtf

Like finishing this lot isn't enough, he has to start on a prequel TRILOGY!!!!

spent the last two months reading this start (not the prequel) to finish — think i quit after book six back in the day

pretty good imo, but yeah the middle books were just grindingly slow. i mean faile got kidnapped late in one book, perrin spent the entire next one chasing and crying after her, then didn’t retrieve her until halfway through the one after that — none of which really mattered to the overall plot.

that said, i still pretty much tore through it. still couldn’t keep track of which minor aes sedai were in which faction though

sanderson did a nice job — at the very least there was less flaming repetition, and the dialogue was more interesting.

his dialogue was wrong imo but he did a good job overall

further rereading will see the draggy parts recede in importance btw ime

having now completed those four million words i’m not sure what to do with myself

Could start in on the Bible

read the talmud instead it's a lot cooler, and also long

i already know the ending

How about the Mahābhārata? You could also try learning sanskrit first if brevity is an issue.

There's also L. Ron Hubbard's Mission Earth series. All top-shelf material I'm sure.

dirty stuff too

PKD

Could start in on the Bible

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have to imagine hes ready to leave jordan for a while

just got to the sanderson books... woof! this is such bad fan fiction!

so

you're saying

that you prefer

literally three books of perrin doing nothing but stewing

perrin's definitely the weakest of the 3. i think there's a whole book in the golden middle of the series where he doesn't even appear? after the 'return to the shire' bit and before faile gets captured.

it's funny that rj developed this 'am i going to go bestial and insane - how did elyas stop it' plotline for him early on and then it vanished completely. elyas even came back and they just smell each other for a few chapters.

ohhhh lord darragh ned please talk to this sucker cause they killing rand al'thor they taking the pain and struggle of life of the dragon reborn the only thing we coulda express our minds and pain. and these suckers took it and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence

The best example I can think of of a fantasy author completely losing control of the narrative. I suppose his health problems contributed, but I don't think he had any idea how to end it.

By the way, who killed Asmodean?

~25 years after i first started... done!