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Wheel of Time book 12: A Memory of Light
StaedlerMars:
--- Quote from: mberan42 on 02 Nov 2010, 13:40 ---No way, man. Lord of Chaos is SO damn good -- Dumai's Wells is a bloodbath.
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This is true. Lord of Chaos is one of the ones I re-read of couple of times, and definitely one of the ones that has stuck with me most.
So just finished this. Am pretty excited about things ending, and ending in a well executed manner though.
Although, I'm not sure I like the rebirthed Rand.
Buttfranklin:
So book 13 is out and I'm halfway through.
In the glossary is the answer to the big question of book 5, which is who killed Asmodean.
All round, the writing is pretty nice, only a couple of scenes I would call useless, whereas most scenes advance the plot or build the character. That was a problem of book 12, where it took Aviendha three chapters of trying to figure out something which took me half a chapter to realize. What a waste of time!. But somehow it's a little repetitive, with every chapter involving at least one scene where a character meets with a character and they have a conversation and something is solved. Can't spoil it, but something is always accomplished.
Also, I like the way Sanderson pokes a little bit of fun at the plotholes in the series he'd picked up on but RJ apparently never did. He doesn't make them glaring, but he does make characters go "Wait a second!" and address the issue. For example, (BOOK 13 SPOILER) Perrin suddenly realizes that he could have used the Wolf Dream to scout for the Shaido Aiel who had Faile captive. Pretty funny scene, actually, because it was something I had been yelling at him to do when I was reading those chapters when Perrin was trying to accomplish it.
Over all it's very nice and I'm looking forward to finishing it.
cyro:
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 31 Oct 2010, 03:35 ---I've suggested to friends to read the first three books, read the wikipedia article summaries on 4-11 and then read 12.
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I liked 4, 5 and 6. After that then, yeah, summaries for everyone.
--- Quote from: StaedlerMars on 03 Nov 2010, 15:08 ---Although, I'm not sure I like the rebirthed Rand.
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I liked Rand in The Gathering Storm, I have to admit, but the point is that he's no longer just Rand Al'Thor, he's Lew Therin as well, they're one person now, hence the merging of personalities.
Buttfranklin:
Before rebirth Rand doesn't have hilarious scenes where he tells Nynaeve to get new insults after he predicts that she's going to call him an wool-headed oaf in a sound need of ear-boxing.
mberan42:
--- Quote from: Buttfranklin on 02 Dec 2010, 22:37 ---In the glossary is the answer to the big question of book 5
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SO PISSED about that.
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