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

oh srsly, read all of Sanderson's shit

he's kind of great

well it's on the strength of ilx opinion so i know who to blame

if you don't come back in 2 days drawing symbols in the air with your fingers we'll know we have failed you

sounds fair, sounds fair

i read the 1st 20 pages of the "way of kings" or whatever, the huge one, and the magic assassin was doing like matrix flip gravity stuff and it was like... too nerdy which for me is really pretty fucking nerdy. i was embarrassed to be reading it even though i was by myself. does that make sense?

anyway i'm pretty sure i can swallow my shame if there's an ilx endorsement of that one. it is attractively huge and has ridiculous michael whelan (i think?) cover art.

oh dude I LOOOOOOOOOVED Way of Kings

i dont really know what i thought of the way of kings. i dont think the world is particularly interesting yet but some of the characters are p good, and large sections of the novel move quickly and maintained my interest. when he tries to move quickly btw povs i think the novel really foundered and theres a lot of questionable stuff in there

honestly i feel like its the sort of the thing thats worth holding off on until more books are out. its certainly not a highly satisfying read on its own esp compared to his mistborn novels

Rereading Path of Daggers - this is much snappier than I remembered!

i found a copy of 'lord of chaos' signed (hardcover) at the thrift this weekend. does an ILXor want it? interesting trades considered first.

i don't have anything interesting to trade, and tbh re-reading this on kindle w/out lugging around 700 pages of maguffin is one of the main reasons i'm now inseperable from the damned thing.

i'm re-reading again, i think it's cos once i finish each re-read i need to remind myself of details from book 2 or w/e almost immediately. at no stage have i ever felt like i've got a handle on it all. i may need help.

burrowing on wikipedia has opened up a lot of v cool stuff that may or may not have been obvious to others- rand has always had thor-ish vibes, if only for the name (signposted much) and the lightning (and the supreme power, earth-defining struggle final battle too i guess), but i'd never heard of this guy before. mat is, apparently, to be considered a loki-ish character type.

cool story bro

a buddy of mine concatenated all of them into a single searchable pdf so that whenever someone popped up that he didn't remember very well he could zip thru and brush up without having to work too hard at it.

the big battle at the end of lord of chaos is maybe the finest moment in all of american literature.

now there's a claim

other mythology/religion etc crossover hints i'm a sucker for- mentions of ancient battles at paaren disen, hevan, all that jazz. M'hael as 'battle leader'. Someone has been reading his milton.

paaren disen, hevan

*smacks forehead*

eh for me, you or jordan?

me. Who knows what other obvious references i've overlooked

REREAD

#10

FUCK'S SAKE NOT ELAYNE AGAIN PLS

otherwise, it's been a doddle up til now tbh

Chapter 1 of the last book is posted at the Tor site:

Eastward The Wind Blew

this makes me incredibly sad tbh

i hope the Dark One wins

Those flash forwards in the last book seemed to imply a more interesting ending than I'd anticipated.

there are neither beginnings nor endings

i just reread book #13 of this stupid series yesterday. All of it, like. Sanderson has a tin ear for jordan's dialogue imo.

i almost bought a 2nd hand copy of a mistborn novel the other day and then i saw it was marked at like £5.50 and laughed and put it down

might d/l those in the meantime i spose.

Sanderson has a tin ear for jordan's dialogue imo.

so you are saying this guy's dialogue is worse than jordan's wau

i think i am, if the choice is btwn stilted but consistent or flowery and scattershot.

Jesus but the trakands are just awful btw

so the ending to this is rand, injured, on a boat, with three women (pick from nynaeve, elayne, aviendha, min, alivia)

go on then, predict from there.

everything points to him ending his days happily with min, leavin the others to raise his p. brattish spawn imo

forgot moiraine d'oh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GrsG44cn9c

I always said I'd do a re-read when the series was finally finished (I gave up after half of book 9). I don't know that I want to any more.

i'm probably gonna have to take a day off work for this shit

re-read is worth doing if you got the time. once you break the back of if you got as far as halfway through 9 you've done the hard work really, i think

the fucking thing isn't released on irish kindle for another month or two, so fuckem i'm gonna steal it as soon as i can

tbh im less excited about reading this than i am anxious, this is some in search of lost time shit for me and i cant help but feel a little cheated by any ending, since there are neither beginnings nor or something or maybe i'm just old and dying idk

Out tomorrow! Though I'm waiting until the audiobook shows up in audible.

oh crap i actually thought it was next tuesday

ooh, looks like it might hit audible tomorrow. Groovy.

i think the ebook and the audio are on the 10th

where are you seeing kidle ed for the 10th? link pls!

Amazon shows audio book as out tomorrow.

11,004 pages
4,056,130 words*
419h 30m audio
7,013 frustrated braid tugs by nynaeve

I've listened to them all as audiobooks. I have no idea how to spell 90% of the names.

we have no idea how they're pronounced

never mind yr audiobook

Audible had it this morning. Listening begins.

http://lifehacker.com/231955/how-to-crack-password+protected-pdfs

a fuck this shit and fuck random house

or tor or whoever. really determined not to pay for this book

apparently it's because his missus doesn't like ebooks and true readers curl up around books by a roaring fire

pmb, ma'am. pmdb.

ludicrously big hardback bought. Doing it the right way

they had zero copies of this at my local B&N, which I find totally crazypants