Wheel of Time series

Chinaman889_sl said:

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Day#24:

"There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention, and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever been made."

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Sounds like Rand talking to the rulers of the world at the Field of Merrilor about what's to be done after the Last Battle.

Certainly sounds like Rand. I'm half way though Winter's Heart. I can remember why I stopped re-reading the series.

Wolfen_sl said:

It's 90% audiobooks for me these days. If I'm in the car, I'm listening to an audiobook.

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I've been getting into Audible over the past year or so since I have a 1+hr commute each way...

Can Wolfen or anyone else recommend this series on Audible? The narrator doesn't sound that great, but I could say the same of other narrators that I've come to like the more I listen to them.

The male narrator is great, one of my favorites actually (same guy who reads Mistborn series and Way of Kings). The female narrator is ok.

Do they use the matching gender narrator for different dialogue? Always wondered that about audio books.

Azrayne_sl said:

Do they use the matching gender narrator for different dialogue? Always wondered that about audio books.

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no, they change only for different chapters. compared to other audiobooks WoT isnt that great, the male voice is better than the female though, so it's probably a good thing so many chapters are from a male perspective. (offtopic: if you want to listen to a really great audiobook get the black tower (stephen king), imho it's one of the best)

Ashin_sl said:

Sounds like Rand talking to the rulers of the world at the Field of Merrilor about what's to be done after the Last Battle.

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Sounds more to me like one of the Forsaken talking about the world before the Dark One was found, they are talking about the time before the Bore was made, and that was done by Lanfear back in the Age of Legends

Well, the apocalypse has been avoided in new Zealand so far, which was my biggest worry for interfering with reading A Memory of Light.

Thanks for the response guys. I'll put this in the queue.

I have jury duty the day before this comes out...this could turn out horribly...

Nebuchadnezzar_sl said:

I have jury duty the day before this comes out...this could turn out horribly...

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You could skip Jury duty. Forsake your honorable duty as a part of a body of peers to convict/free someone.

My favourite parts so far:

Towers of Midnight - Perrin unravelling Egween's spells in Tel'aran'rhiod and then blocking balefire and brushing her comment aside as if every child knows that. Epic. Just epic. A mere blacksmith with yellow eyes, hands down making The Amirlyn Seat look like a schoolgirl
Dragon Reborn - Mat, half sick beating the shit out of Galad and Gawyn.

And yes, for me, Mat is also like the best chapter guy ever Ever since he went through that 2nd gateway and came back hanging from a tree, filled holes and all... killing Couladin and some other wonderful stuff. Band of Red Hand, marrying Daugther of the Nine Moons.. epic.

Can't wait for A memory of Light.

Perrin was my favorite when I first started reading the series. The premise behind his abilities were really cool when I was a kid, but then he started getting pussified thanks to Faile. But Matt carried me through those books, until the Towers of Midnight and Perrin had finally redeemed himself in my eyes. I just related to Perrin more in the beginning, so he was my favorite for a long while. Matt for the longest time after his fight in the Tower was the funnest of the three guys to read.

So glad that we get to finally see this series end, after the last sixteen years of reading the books. Now I just wish for an animated, high quality, series based on it. As well as an RPG in the vein of KotOR.

Also, wasn't there rumors a year or so ago that a t.v. studio or something was interested in making this into a series?

Just started reading Eye of the World for my final re-read through the whole thing. It will probably be a year before I get to MoL, but fuck it, it's my final salute to Jordan. The wheel weaves as the wheel wills.

Chinaman889_sl said:

Spoiler

Day#27:

"Peaches!" Rand said, aghast. Everyone knew those were poisonous.

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That's some obscure information from a book most people hated.