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

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.

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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?

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

such as?

i think the only thing that was bad in a way it didn't have to be was the illogical pseudo-philosophy of rands confrontation w/the dark one. feel like there was a lot of room for something just... better there, partic one that didnt seem to triviliaze the series own eschatology. also the book was too ambitious and too limited - introducing so many new or essentially new characters and concepts was a poor choice but it also was too narrowly focused on the battle itself - like i wanted the the entire sweep of the wheel or something in there, not just dudes killing trollocs over and over again.

mostly i just feel weird about the series being over

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

no I don't think it did!

Rand's visions during his fight with the Dark One were really corny

otm

I wanted a scrap with ba'alzamon as ishamael rendered him in the first few books, not a secondary school debate with a capslock.

Srsly, was that it for alivia? Smdh. That was rushed as well.

Smdh perrin/faile, again. Thought he was prophesised to die btw?

Smdh everyone surviving cept the obv two.

Ryan- gimme a mail at darraghmac @ gmail

He kinda bungled the few deaths there were too. Apart from the big one, which was the best moment in the book. If you're not paying attention you can easily miss stuff like the end of my bro Shaidar Haran

rand dreamed most of the deaths, it was p much chris tolkien shoehorning of scraps jordan had written, i guess

Yeah, major death the best moment by a distance, prob rivalled only by demandred in general, who was p. boss throughout.

lol moridin, nae'blis of the year now he's a cunt.

Presumably his soul gets recycled like everyone else's, no last wish for u bro

Well, I finished. 40+ hours of listening to interminable battle sequence after battle sequence. They sort of all blurred together by the end as I waited for things to happen. A little anti-climactic, and I agree some stuff was rushed and other stuff went on forever.

agreed there were a whole mess of problems with this but overall the balance of gangster shit to dumb shit was favorable.

a big part of what i love(d) about RJ was he seemed occasionally to think about what people would actually do with all this wacky magic. cf the end of lord of chaos. branderson sanderson, for all his stupid fucking mormon bullshit and shitty writing, thinks the same way.

are we going whole hog spoiler in this thread yet?

i havent been just yet

nailing him up on a cross was pretty lazy stuff imo

can someone summarize, in three paragraphs or less, what happened since "the lord of chaos"?
cuz i just don't have it in me. I read the few books after that one but i do not remember fuckall about 'em.