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

Long haul flight last week with only book three on my Kindle app

Skipping everything but Perrin and mat pays serious dividends fyi

Tell you what

If tomorrow is as lazy as today around here im going to start polling books and characters

im down. is the tv show still happening? (or was it ever happening? i cant remember).

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!