Spren of Kindness Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 I'm about a third through Eye of the World, and I don't know if I want to keep going. Can anyone give me something that won't make sense unless I read the whole book/a reason to keep going? Because I really want to read this series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revelryintheart Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 Sorry but everyone I've talked to that has read the Wheel of Time says the only good books are the Sanderson ones. But keep going! You only have 11(?) books to go until you get to the good stuff! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggdogg Posted August 1, 2020 Report Share Posted August 1, 2020 The wheel has some great character growth/development. There were characters that i hated at the beginning that took my breath away by the end. There were characters i loved at the beginning but did not like at all by the end. I never found one book to stand out as much more than the others with the exception of 1 and 14. Really enjoyed eye of the world (read it before i even knew who sanderson was). The final book was one of the most epic books ive ever read. Think i read it within 48 hours, one eye blood shot and the other bone white. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zachary Holbrook Posted February 21, 2021 Report Share Posted February 21, 2021 Something that won't make sense unless you read the whole book... hmmmm.... (mild spoilers for Eye of the World, but the kind that will make it more interesting) Padan Fain, the peddler, has been tracking Rand, Mat and Perrin for years (why? You'll have to read the book) Nynaeve has a crush you haven't found about yet One character heroically sacrifices himself There's at least one way to use saidin without going mad (I've only read Eye of the World so far, there might be others revealed later in the series) One of the Emond's Field refugees falls under a curse and attacks Moraine Another one becomes a lighteyes (not because he bonds a shardblade) The consequences of all these things ripple past the climax of the first book and into the beginning of The Great Hunt (which I began last night and found riveting) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacitus Posted February 22, 2021 Report Share Posted February 22, 2021 The further you get, the more momentum you acquire, the easier it is to progress. Keep going! As far as I can tell, (Technically I haven't actually read the whole series,) It's totally worth it later on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bejarden Posted February 23, 2021 Report Share Posted February 23, 2021 Brandon lifts the series ( in my eyes) from like a bottomless pit to one of the best series endings although the person that posted this topic probaly has already finished it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfphelps Posted April 16, 2021 Report Share Posted April 16, 2021 I found on my first read through that I really got slogged down towards the middle/end, and the Sanderson books really supercharged my interest again. I started a re-read semi-recently and flew through Eye of the World, thinking I had forgotten how good it was! So I guess I sort of feel like if you're already struggling, the series just may not be for you? I think it's a great story and lots of cool lore and definitely worth the read, but if you already find book 1 not interesting enough that you question finishing it, I am thinking some of the mid/late books will be really hard for you. But by then you may have more momentum and be more invested in seeing it to the end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spren of Kindness Posted April 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2021 8 hours ago, cfphelps said: I found on my first read through that I really got slogged down towards the middle/end, and the Sanderson books really supercharged my interest again. I started a re-read semi-recently and flew through Eye of the World, thinking I had forgotten how good it was! So I guess I sort of feel like if you're already struggling, the series just may not be for you? I think it's a great story and lots of cool lore and definitely worth the read, but if you already find book 1 not interesting enough that you question finishing it, I am thinking some of the mid/late books will be really hard for you. But by then you may have more momentum and be more invested in seeing it to the end. Wow, I completely forgot that I made this thread. So, I guess this is kind of a necro? But I don't particularly mind. Anyway, I gave myself a good long break after book one, and I flew through book two. So I've got some momentum now, and I'm gonna do my best. (As my signature shows. ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Sedai Posted May 28, 2021 Report Share Posted May 28, 2021 On 7/31/2020 at 10:51 PM, revelryintheart said: Sorry but everyone I've talked to that has read the Wheel of Time says the only good books are the Sanderson ones. But keep going! You only have 11(?) books to go until you get to the good stuff! That's far from true. Jordan was a master of storytelling, and while he does have a different pacing style than Sanderson does, I'd say that that is a false statement. Its one thing to express your opinion, another to say that all the books are bad except Sanderson's. The foreshadowing is absolutely MASTERFUL. You think Brandon's is great? Jordan's is even more so. Brandon learnt a lot about that aspect of writing from Jordan. I'd also say that the cultures are excellent, and one of our main characters has one of the best character arcs I've ever read. Every step in their progression is logical, but the change they go through is really large. There is so much hidden depth in these books, in the way that things for later are set up, and all the layers of different scenes. Great example of this is a sequence in Path of Daggers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bejarden Posted May 28, 2021 Report Share Posted May 28, 2021 13 minutes ago, Cheyenne Sedai said: That's far from true. Jordan was a master of storytelling, and while he does have a different pacing style than Sanderson does, I'd say that that is a false statement. Its one thing to express your opinion, another to say that all the books are bad except Sanderson's. The foreshadowing is absolutely MASTERFUL. You think Brandon's is great? Jordan's is even more so. Brandon learnt a lot about that aspect of writing from Jordan. I'd also say that the cultures are excellent, and one of our main characters has one of the best character arcs I've ever read. Every step in their progression is logical, but the change they go through is really large. There is so much hidden depth in these books, in the way that things for later are set up, and all the layers of different scenes. Great example of this is a sequence in Path of Daggers. Hate to disagree but I’m going to completely disagree Spoilers for all books WoT Spoiler Rand is a terrible character. One book he’s fine, another he’s raving in the woods going completely mad Then he’s fine again, then he’s mad, then fine... Until book 12 or 13 and they basically told you in the first 100 pages of book 1 that he had the magic power The fact that Nynave was the best healer ever just didn’t make sense, there was no reason for it to happen A good 1/3 of the books you can skip and miss absolutely nothing, there’s even a book that Rands not in The series could have been 6 books it was stretched to 14 for no Egewene is to perfect She just makes no mistakes after book 9 and that doesn’t make any sense because that isn’t human Mats arc is the best but is very very weird Perrin doesn’t have anything happening for a few books and everything was extremely obvious about his Arc The Forsaken were mostly just plot enemies that were just placed in convenient places But the worst thing was Brandon’s fault: Padan fain; 13 books of foreshadowing and then he kills like 5 people and Mat kills him, very stupid This is all an opinion and could be disagreed with 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Sedai Posted May 28, 2021 Report Share Posted May 28, 2021 I know well how these discussions go, so I'm not going to start a huge debate that gets out of hand. So we can agree to disagree 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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