Riddlesinthedark

Know I've seen these posts in the past, but cannot remember if it was general or specific one. If out of place, amend it or bring it to my attention. This first one is more of a slight continuity error. On the first half-page of Chapter 10, David remembers having two handguns in his apartment. On the first half-page of Chapter 16, David says he has only ever owned two guns, a rifle and a pistol. Anyway, Carry on.

You do, or have library privileges there. I know they don't do interlibrary loan up to UVU, but that might be just because across town.

Reread it already, and while I liked Egwene more in this book, her death is seem more and more deus ex machina. We've never seen that weaves have opposites. Not once in the entire series. There is not a single water ball that negates the fireballs being thrown in near every battle. A friend put it that Gawyn deserved the death Egwene got, and vice versa. I'm not sure I'd go that far, I liked her far more than ever before and really felt like she had some redeeming dialogue. But her death was a total deus ex machina device by the authors. Still, no else thinks that a balefire-gateway infinite paradox would be possible? How much more horrifying would the Shayol Ghol last battle have been if it wasnt just millions of more trolloc mooks, but evil mists and more of the channeling and vicious Aiel? I've liked Rodel Iturlade since he was introduced and think that this would have been a spot of Great Captain, out of the box thinking. It would have lent more urgency to that battle if the non-channelers were facing something that they could not fight, could not cope against instead of more trolloc mooks and the surprisingly non-scary red veiled Aiel. Why were the redveiled aiel used more to cause dissension, to drive wedges between the factions as tenuous Last Battlie Allies thought they were turning on one another. Also Graendal was a little too disruptive against Amys, Aviendha, but most especially Alivia. Alivia the half-a-millenia-old, battle-tested former damane. The same Alivia who drove away Lanfear at Shadar Logoth. Graendel was ended well, I thought, but there was too much chaos from just her.

Other than picking up some snacks, I went straight home after the signing and pretty much read straight through it. A very long awaited 14 hours, still emotionally torn up. On the voice thing, Mat felt alright, but Aviendha again felt off to me personally. And it felt obvious to me where Jordan had written clauses or descriptions that had been pre-written or lifted from the notes, because Brandon would say things like (not spoilers, showed up in ToM) "Vora's sa'angreal" where Jordan would probably have said that "aged dark ivory sa'angreal wand that had once been wielded by the Amyrilin Vora" or something, with braid tugging or sniffing accompanying. Early on, there was a couple of heartwarming descriptions of Rand that was very much Jordan. But I loved it, so much, even when it made me sad. And I actually like Egwene again. The ending was so very bittersweet, in content and context. The last page of the Wheel of Time likely forever, where WOT fandom is easily my oldest hobby, more than 2/3 of my life.

11th hour finish, but I did it this morning. Cannot wait for the Midnight signing tonight!

Dragonmount is again arranging for signing volunteers. http://www.dragonmount.com/index.php/News/amol/memory-keeper-application-process-r479 Anyway, anyone else going to be at the BYU midnight release?

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That said, good luck getting the book, because I cannot help but feel that the BYU library is not being a competent steward of the book. For instance, I had it last May. Knowing that they had lost the book frequently in the past, I returned it directly to a library aide, explained the recurring situation, and gave it directly back to them. I wish I had babysat that (likely bored student) employee until they scanned it back in, because I eventually got an overdue notice, which I ignored, and eventually in late summer got a billing statement, at which point I called in and climbed through the phone tree until I found some salaried person incompetent enough that I didn't feel bad about jumping down their throat. It then quickly and "magically" reappeared on their catalog system, and I believe was soon checked out by someone else. I imagine, that the year-long, on&off "missing" status before I got it was a similar case. Often the book will be listed as present on the catalog, only to be missing from the shelf, and laughably this fall I noticed the reverse case was true when I was on campus and checked. So odds are, it will be a beast to get a hold of, especially out of area. I'm local, and it still was. I cannot imagine the headache an interlibrary loan will take.

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I noticed the same thing, and felt like Gaotona was non-directly pushing the second aspect.

I picked up John Dies at the End, by David Wong. Its got some language, and is firmly horror genre, but its great. One of those stories that really gets you into the characters head, which in this case is a troubled guy who is seeing real monsters.

We do see a lot of examples of this. In book 2, off Kinslayers dagger, there are a lot of small towns and population. When the Borderlanders meet in the Black Hills north of Andor. Also, the trade routes through areas like the Caralain grass seem few, dominated by two massive, north-south rivers that are navigable from the Blight to Illian and Tear respectively. It would be like the dry, grassy steppes of Central Asia, without the Silk Road, and without hydroelectric and irrigation products. And if I recall, there was something about the DO/Ishi touch on the world suppressing government's and possibly the population as well. But I know how you feel, it did always seem a little empty to me too. In some ways more conflicting or disputed baronial city-states/non-nations like found within the Holy Roman empire might have made more sense to me. Despite the setting of 15 to 17th century tech that Jordan was shooting for, we have 19th and 20th century nationalism, even in Murandi and Altara. Also, doesn't the 10 million NA inhabitants include the very populated Aztec and Maya areas? Tenochtitlan was one of the very largest cities in the entire world.

I agree emphatically, I just watched the first Jurassic Park, and its aged really well (its the very first movie I remember seeing in theaters. And I think its because of the animatronic use over graphics. I suspect even something bloatedly expensive like Avatar will look dated in 5-10 years.

Hey, Welcome to the 17th shard. One thing that I think might be brought up is that Spren might predate the shards, in the same way that metals predated Ruin/Preservation on Scadrial, and form predated Aona/Skai on Sel. In that the worlds themselves dictated the way magic worked. As far as your number 2, this thread, based on unpublished but available errata, might be of interest And personally, I think you are right on the money about Seons and Divine Breaths. Devotion has been shattered, no longer has a living cognitive aspect, while Endowment remains active.

Well, I think its a swell idea. But I dont pay for the server space here, so.

It would be less work for the moderating team to just have a dedicated spoiler board, with maybe a stickied directory. You're always going to have new people, especially when a big new book comes out (i.e. SA2). This way we could just report the rare, occasional spoiler thread.

Isnt he also Inkthinker, on here?

But do differentiate "slowing*", like what Nynaeve (and Rand?) have already hit, with the agelessness.

I'm just going to point a finger over at Dragonmount. Different strokes for different authors, but there should be more than enough to keep that community going for 15-20 years.

Yeah, but why would those DarkFriends be practiced in TAR? Also recall that when Rahvin and Rand went through, neither even thought of holding their forms, just of reality warping around "them"(*Rands POV). Contrast that with the browbeating we had received over the previous books about how hard it is, when stressed, to do so. I'm still a fan of a little bit of early installment weirdness, but it has piqued my interest and I might ask this question at the midnight release at BYU.

Really, cause everything that has come down the facebook side of things looks like he is really struggling to not makethe "book of endless pages" working title incredibly ironic.

Well its always been in the Blight, in the Mountain passes and valleys. It might just be that geography is a little fluid up there near Shayol Ghul But if I remember correctly, one of the Forsaken/Dreamwalkers says outright that people can be pulled into T'A'R. And that happens in the very next book's prologue, with all the DarkFriends. None of them seemed to be flickering from what I can recall, so they must have been there in the flesh.

Great post, and I don't think you're not wrong, but I'm not sure you should read to much into it, i.e.: Brandon Sanderson has said in interviews and Writing Excuses, his podcast, that when worldbuilding--he will open an atlas, and study geographical names, phonemes, and personal names. He will then mix and blend them to get a cohesive structure. He may have said recently that he no longer does this, but he probably still was when writing WoK. You might observe that in the Mistborn series, the names look kind of French (though thankfully not pronounced that way); Kelsier, Elend, especially Lestibournes. So I think you are correct in picking up the Middle Eastern influences, I would just be leery of reading to much into it, because like he showed in Elantris, with Raoden, Sarene, etc...he will assign his own meaning to those names. It would however be interesting if Shallash was the sixth enumerated Herald, but nothing in Kelek's viewpoint suggested shiftiness of character to me. For another instance, also from WoK, Kaladin is only one letter transposed from the famous Arab general, Saladin, defender against/scourge of the Crusades. Jasnah, also, has some similarity to some Arab names.

Also, in point of favor for Nebraska, is that the state warps space and time. When driving across the country on I80, no matter how far Google says it is, at least half the trip is always spent in Nebraska.