Ned the Living Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Are there any Wheel of Time fans here? I read up to Winter's Heart when it was originally released, but it was so bad that I gave up on the series forever. I started the prologue to Crossroads of Twilight three times and could never get into it. I finally picked it back up recently since people had urged me to finish the series as it supposedly gets better. Any thoughts on that? I'm about halfway through awful CoT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 As a huge fan of Wot (I was one of the people who left work to buy AMoL when Walmart accidentally release a day early) I always recommend it to people. However there are already quite a few threads on this topic. http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/83607-wheel-of-time-is-it-worth-reading/ http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/110523-opinions-of-wheel-of-time/ http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/54059-a-wheel-of-time/ Welcome to the forums BTW :cheers: p.s. these are only a few of the WoT threads, there are quite a few more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentRoamer Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Wow - a nice response! Yeah I would say on any fantasy fan site you would be likely to find some WoT fans - definitely some kicking around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_ Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 It gets better after Winters Heart no doubt, still not that great though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasp of Many Reeds Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Crossroads of Twilight is bad. Knife of Dreams was a definite recovery on Jordan's part and is on a level with some of the earlier books. The Sanderson books are very enjoyable, and he improves on Jordan in some places, though he isn't completely successful in others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balerion the kitten Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 I just ordered the eye of the world, is it a bad series in general or just later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninefingers Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 I just ordered the eye of the world, is it a bad series in general or just later? I think it peaks around book 3. I read the whole series, but it's nothing I would ever re-read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasp of Many Reeds Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Books 1-6 are generally viewed as being good to high quality fantasy. Books 7 & 8 get more flack but are mostly decent. Books 9-10 are generally seen as the low point in the series, though Winter's Heart has an excellent finale. Book 11, as I mentioned, is a definite improvement on 9 & 10. The Sanderson books wrap up the series well and definitely cut to the chase, avoiding the meandering and endless descriptions of braid-tugging and women's clothing that the later Jordan books suffered. I do, however, feel Jordan would have handled some elements of the finale better if he had lived to write it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aceluby Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 IMO, it's one of those things that was absolutely great for its time, but hasn't really held up that well. There is now a slew of epic fantasy out there that is less cliched and better written. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arataniello Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Everything up to the end of Lord of Chaos (book 5? - been so long since I read the thing) was great. After that it just floundered, with one or two individually outstanding bits (the cleansing of saidin at Shadar Logoth). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maithanet Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Are there any Wheel of Time fans here? I read up to Winter's Heart when it was originally released, but it was so bad that I gave up on the series forever. I started the prologue to Crossroads of Twilight three times and could never get into it. I finally picked it back up recently since people had urged me to finish the series as it supposedly gets better. Any thoughts on that? I'm about halfway through awful CoT. Lots of people have the same problem you did. I recommend finding a detailed chapter summary of Crossroads of Twilight and just reading that instead. Honest to god this is what I did. If the chapter sounded like things were happening, I would read the actual chapter in CoT, but I think I only did this for like 3 chapters in the entire book. With this method, I was able to finish CoT in just a couple of days! Knife of Dreams and The Gathering Storm were both much better. Life is too short to slog through bad books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protar Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 I only ever got to book 7 I think. The first 3 books where the best, and while the next few books where decent they began to go down hill from there and quickly became bloated. And I hear that the few books after that are even worse in that regard. Supposedly the final few books are better, but even if they're good - there are plenty of books where I don't have to subject myself to weeks of cliches and sexist writing and plodding plot points to get to the good parts. Still, part of me wants to get through the whole thing. I would give them a cautious recommendation, if only because they're a big part of the fantasy landscape and the first few books aren't bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reckoner Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Book One is Capture the Flag by way of Tolkien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid the Iron Price Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 WoT was enjoyable. I did waited 23-years for it to complete.It's soapy, at times very booring, but at the end of the day it's really an epic fantasy novel which I really recommend anyone, who likes fantasy novels, to read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 As a huge fan of Wot (I was one of the people who left work to buy AMoL when Walmart accidentally release a day early) I always recommend it to people. However there are already quite a few threads on this topic. http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/83607-wheel-of-time-is-it-worth-reading/ http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/110523-opinions-of-wheel-of-time/ http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/54059-a-wheel-of-time/ Welcome to the forums BTW :cheers: p.s. these are only a few of the WoT threads, there are quite a few more.I learned two things in this post: 1. Your shop has poor accountability2. Walmart sales books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned the Living Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 I just ordered the eye of the world, is it a bad series in general or just later? Book 4 is actually my favorite, but yeah 1-4 are really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night's_King Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Are people too lazy or just too stupid to use the search function? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnar of Skagos Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 I just ordered the eye of the world, is it a bad series in general or just later? I haven't read any of the other ones (though I do have The Great Hunt and the Dragon Reborn on my shelves) and I really enjoyed it. After I finished EotW I distinctly remember missing the characters, which does not happen often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A True Kaniggit Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I learned two things in this post:1. Your shop has poor accountability2. Walmart sales books.Those were the two main points I was trying to get across with the post. The third point was that this forum already has quite a few threads discussing the WoT series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Are people too lazy or just too stupid to use the search function?Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.