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

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

I'm about 10 hours into the audiobook. Pretty good so far.

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

Is it because they were sold out or because they didn't order any? It seems pretty stupid not to have ordered any.

b&n is kinda flailing, might have something to do with it

was hoping to have my copy arrive yesterday, have to wait till tuesday sadly. painful.

its on my kindle atm.

anyone else finished this yet?

about a third of the way through, it's proving a very quick read. General impressions?

its a long blur i think, and reliably disappointing. there are some genuinely emotional moments and a lot more that seemed mired in crowd-pleasing. like i said above any ending is going be a let down nevermind one not even written by jordan.

there is a bit of a box-ticking feel about it so far. Making sure all those prophecies are taken care of etc.

I haven't read this yet (ill be damned if I buy the physical copy) but to be fair to Sanderson this book was always liable to be box ticking and cleaning up the narrative sprawl. Can't imagine Jordan could have wrapped things up satisfactorily in 3 books either (not that he'd done a satisfactory job of getting things to the point he left them either.)

if the boxes are all ticked and i get a bit of oomph at the end i'll settle for that tbh.

My B&N didn't have any, because we sold 60 of them in about 5 hours. In the old days, a store like ours might have had 500.

But the publishers and the chain stores can't take a chance on sending 400 hundred back because they guessed wrong.

this arrived in the mail today, thanking u Amazon

I had forgotten Aram existed, lol

hope it's not SPOILERY to say

I'm 70% through and still waiting for anyone important to die ffs

his attempts to do comedy dialogue are horrible. At least Jordan never really bothered

and i couldn't care less about all these interchangeable trolloc battles

i spose the point is they're happening everwhere all at once and it's kind of a thing so

yeah but there's no real sense of scale or peril for me

cos nobody dies and tbh there seems to be (throughout the series tbf) a wavering line on whether a fade or trolloc is a big fuckun deal or not

fuckit

That was actually awesome

o rly

i'm prepared to go on record, yeah. flawed- everything lamp says above is true and fair- rushed in places, lazy cliffhangers abound,

SPOILERS

far too many ppl survive, shit's cuddly as fuck tbh

/SPOILERS

but fuckit, that was awesome

yeah, entering the endgame. It's kinda getting me

ok let's finish it up there foljs, i've got a few questions

gonna remove bookmark from thread until the ebook comes out. spoilerize away!

Finished. Back to being underwhelmed

ah now

ryan i tried to webmail you but not sure it worked?