The wheel turns
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The 14th and final Wheel of Time[^] book was finally released today. I started it before work today. I've never felt the urge to ditch work over a book before. :rolleyes:
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I remember starting that series years and years ago - unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he should have wrapped it all off. The problem was, it always felt incredibly derivative: Rand al Thor - Paul Atreides Aes Sedai - Bene Geserit Invasion of Trollocs - hello, does Helms Deep mean anything? Band of friends off on different adventures - Hobbits And so on.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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The 14th and final Wheel of Time[^] book was finally released today. I started it before work today. I've never felt the urge to ditch work over a book before. :rolleyes:
Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]
I have always stayed clear of starting Wheel of Time, I have learnt a lesson don't read on the way to work as you will miss your destination. I once got engrossed missed my Stop and ended up in Didcott (I was supposed to get out at Bristol!)
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I remember starting that series years and years ago - unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he should have wrapped it all off. The problem was, it always felt incredibly derivative: Rand al Thor - Paul Atreides Aes Sedai - Bene Geserit Invasion of Trollocs - hello, does Helms Deep mean anything? Band of friends off on different adventures - Hobbits And so on.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
Hobbits good point seen the film yet ?, from what I heard it's going to be a triolgy (?), but it's the thinest book Tolkien produced....
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Hobbits good point seen the film yet ?, from what I heard it's going to be a triolgy (?), but it's the thinest book Tolkien produced....
glennPattonWork wrote:
seen the film yet
Yes. How would I sum it up? Avoid it at all costs. It's so slow that nothing happens for an hour, and then the pace slows down.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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glennPattonWork wrote:
seen the film yet
Yes. How would I sum it up? Avoid it at all costs. It's so slow that nothing happens for an hour, and then the pace slows down.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
Fair enough! :(
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I remember starting that series years and years ago - unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he should have wrapped it all off. The problem was, it always felt incredibly derivative: Rand al Thor - Paul Atreides Aes Sedai - Bene Geserit Invasion of Trollocs - hello, does Helms Deep mean anything? Band of friends off on different adventures - Hobbits And so on.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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thrakazog wrote:
I thought 12 and 13 were excellent
When Jordan was dead you mean.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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Hobbits good point seen the film yet ?, from what I heard it's going to be a triolgy (?), but it's the thinest book Tolkien produced....
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glennPattonWork wrote:
seen the film yet
Yes. How would I sum it up? Avoid it at all costs. It's so slow that nothing happens for an hour, and then the pace slows down.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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I remember starting that series years and years ago - unfortunately, Jordan dragged it on and on and on, far past the point where he should have wrapped it all off. The problem was, it always felt incredibly derivative: Rand al Thor - Paul Atreides Aes Sedai - Bene Geserit Invasion of Trollocs - hello, does Helms Deep mean anything? Band of friends off on different adventures - Hobbits And so on.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
I'll have to agree. I made it through four books and then got tired of waiting. Now I'm doing the same thing with George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books. I'm a glutton for punishment.
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The 14th and final Wheel of Time[^] book was finally released today. I started it before work today. I've never felt the urge to ditch work over a book before. :rolleyes:
Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]
I read the first 9 or 10 books. On the last one I realized I'd just read a 1000+ page book and absolutely NOTHING happened. I decided to give up. Then the author died before it was complete. So who wrote the last one(s)?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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The 14th and final Wheel of Time[^] book was finally released today. I started it before work today. I've never felt the urge to ditch work over a book before. :rolleyes:
Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]
Yes and it's incredibly frustrating that it's not yet available for nook. I've got the first 13 on my nook and am not going to buy the last one in dead-tree format.
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That would be the mud puppy.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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I read the first 9 or 10 books. On the last one I realized I'd just read a 1000+ page book and absolutely NOTHING happened. I decided to give up. Then the author died before it was complete. So who wrote the last one(s)?
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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thrakazog wrote:
I thought 12 and 13 were excellent
When Jordan was dead you mean.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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Like the big spoiler from Aviendha going back to Rhuidean?
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easier
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I'll have to agree. I made it through four books and then got tired of waiting. Now I'm doing the same thing with George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books. I'm a glutton for punishment.
Caydence wrote:
George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books
I'm in that boat too. But I don't find the Song of Ice and Fire books to be nearly as interesting so the waiting isn't difficult. At the end of each of those books I kept thinking the story was getting worse and didn't care if I read another. Then a new one would come out and I'd eventually give it another go.
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Yes and it's incredibly frustrating that it's not yet available for nook. I've got the first 13 on my nook and am not going to buy the last one in dead-tree format.
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They actually talk about them in the book but they extended it for the movie.
There they were sheltering under a hanging rock for the night, and he lay beneath a blanket and shook from head to toe. When he peeped out in the lightning-flashes, he saw that across the valley the stone-giants were out and were hurling rocks at one another for a. game, and catching them, and tossing them down into the darkness where they smashed among the trees far below, or splintered into little bits with a bang. [...] They could hear the giants guffawing and shouting all over the mountainsides. [...] "This won't do at all!" said Thorin. "If we don't get blown off or drowned, or struck by lightning, we shall be picked up by some giant and kicked sky-high for a football." [...] As they passed under the arch, it was good to hear the wind and the rain outside instead of all about them, and to feel safe from the giants and their rocks. The Hobbit, Chapter Four, Over Hill and Under Hill
Brett A. Whittington Application Developer
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The 14th and final Wheel of Time[^] book was finally released today. I started it before work today. I've never felt the urge to ditch work over a book before. :rolleyes:
Play my game Gravity: IOS[^], Android[^], Windows Phone 7[^]
I've been re-reading this series everytime a new book came out since book 7 when I read it for the first time originally. Needless to say, I am a huge fan of the series and I get something new out of it every time I read it, it is still a great work of fantasy and I would recommend it to anyone who is even slightly interested. I think the story could have been better if Jordan would have finished in say 6 books and then added the additional story arcs in other books that take place at the same time of the story but focused just on that story arc. Mostly, I am saddened that there is this whole fantasy world with only one long story with a rich history that is hinted by names of songs and stories in gleemans' tales. It would have been awesome if Jordan would have been able to write additional stories that these songs and tales inspired.
Brett A. Whittington Application Developer