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[StaedlerMars]

No way, man. Lord of Chaos is SO damn good -- Dumai's Wells is a bloodbath.

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]

I've suggested to friends to read the first three books, read the wikipedia article summaries on 4-11 and then read 12.

I liked 4, 5 and 6. After that then, yeah, summaries for everyone.

Although, I'm not sure I like the rebirthed Rand.

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]

In the glossary is the answer to the big question of book 5

SO PISSED about that.

[cyro]

To be fair, there where a fair few hints in book 6 and in 12 if you knew what to look for.

[StaedlerMars]

Would just like to say that there's no need to quote the post directly above yours, I've been noticing quite a few new people doing, it's not necessary! We assume you're responding to that post, and it's also easier to read that way!

Relevant: I didn't even notice that in the appendix. That is really upsetting.

[snalin]

One of the things that got me confused here was that the timeline did some big-ass jumps. Once, halfways through a Perrin (I think) chapter, you suddenly get to know that this happens before the end of the last book. One other thing that really bothered me that the two biggest issues in Randland was completely skipped - the Senchan and the Black Tower. We trailed by the issues, but this means that the conclusion to all those three big ones are going to happen during the last book. In addition to the last battle. Man, it'll be cramped.

A lot of awesome stuff happened here that was really well played out (spoilers ahead) - the whole Rand is the personification of good thing worked really well, Aviendha's visions were awesome and pretty scary. The whole Morraine thing actually happened (we've been waiting for that a good while) and, yeah, threads are being wrapped up at an astonishing pace.