Reading all the books in a row

[Nateku]

So over the past seven months, I re-read all 12 released books in a row. Originally I was reading New Spring for an open book report at school, but I quickly moved on to the subsequent volumes of the series.

 

Just a few days ago, I finished KoD, the last released book. After I closed the book, I felt...weird. It just felt so much like I needed to continue reading yet there were no more pages. This might be because I'd been used to putting down one book and instantly picking up another, but I think it also has to do with the circumstances surrounding the writing of the final book.

 

This mostly goes out to those poeple who re-read all the books one right after the other. What do you feel after you read the last page in KoD?

[Kadere]

A chill runs down my back from what Taim says and then I grin and try to wait for AMoL as patiently as possible.

[LordoftheMorning]

I couldn't wait for AMOL... I mean can't wait for AMOL. The final book or books will be like dessert after a really good meal. I will read it fast and go back for seconds..

[Mik]

What do you feel after you read the last page in KoD?

A combined sense of yearning and dread, I think it was.. and it will be worse this time around.

When I closed a Knife of Dreams, I would have sold my soul to read a Memory of Light there and then.

I cannot wait to pick up the final journey to Tarmon Gai'don.

And yet,... at the same time, I know deep down I will close it with a mixture of exhileration and an immens sense of loss.

 

The long and wonderful journey RJ took me on all those years ago will come to a very abrubt end, finally...

 

All these years of speculation... all these years of anticipation... will end with me closing the book.

I fear the day I can buy AMoL and yet I cannot wait for it.

 

I think I'll stare off into nowhere for a long long time, thinking fond memories of a man I never really knew, who painted beautiful images in my mind.

 

"And Mik shall scream in the pain of salvation."

[42Bonzo88]

    I have read many series where I began before the last book was written and had to play the hurry up and wait game. It is exhilerating, depressing, frustrating and extremely exciting, all wrapped up in months-years of waiting for the next one. Most of the time, the last books have made the wait worth it, the problem is you can't feel it now because you don't know, but I really think you will be at least satisfied at the end of a great series. Sure, everyone will know that from our beloved author there won't be anything new, but you have 12+New Spring books to remember and enjoy the chance to know the man even if not personally. Look forward to a great ending, and if it's not, feel free to slam me all you want! ;D

[HIYO SILVER]

What do you feel after you read the last page in KoD?

 

 

I think I'll stare off into nowhere for a long long time, thinking fond memories of a man I never really knew, who painted beautiful images in my mind.

 

 

 

So true..

[jkl190]

It was painful.  For awhile I went into WoT withdrawal.  I finished the series early in the summer, and I felt like I literally couldn't wait over a year for A Memory of Light.  Fortunately, I found a new great series to pass the time (ASOIAF).  Unfortunately, the feeling after finishing A Feast for Crows was even worse than after Knife of Dreams.  I don't recommend starting to read this series until it's completed or near completion.

[Duneflayer]

a sense of awe fills me, and then saddnes for RJ is no longer in this world but then i grow exited and i begin to imagine myself what it will be like at TG (The Last Battle) and when i feel like that i can hardly sit down from excitment

[Ahaz Flagg]

The 1st time I read all 12 in a row, which was when kod was realeased i felt a great loss, as if i lost a friend, so i went ahead started reading them again.  I have since done 5 rereads since than.  I think i am done with rereads until AmoL comes out.  Although every time i reread i find something i seem to have forgoten.  I think i was on my 3rd reread when i relized that idiot that Rand hit when he met Doman, was the idiot who tried to kidnap Elyane.

[Ilyena]

Personally, I love rereading series. Even if they`re not completed, you pick up on so many new things each time and can speculate to yourself or others (in the case of this website) about what each little detail could mean.

Unlike a large majority, I`m excited to finish this series. Not that I don`t love Rand and the rest of WoT, but I`m starting to scream for a conclusion. Ending at KoD right now feels like when you`re watching a really good movie and the power goes out right at the climax. Horrible. However, I am happy reading other books too and have found a bunch of great authors to rotate between while I wait.

While A Song of Ice and Fire has really let me down (and by that I mean GRRM... finish on time damn you!) authors such as the Canadian Steven Erikson and American Jim Butcher have been able to deliver wonderfully detailed and complex stories that are both engaging and hilarious... and each author churns out at least 1 book a year.

 

[lordofsoup]

I think i was on my 3rd reread when i relized that idiot that Rand hit when he met Doman, was the idiot who tried to kidnap Elyane.

 

wait! explain?

 

I was on a winter's heart before I realized that Domon was the guy whose boat Rand, Thom, and Mat jumped on

[Mik]

I think i was on my 3rd reread when i relized that idiot that Rand hit when he met Doman, was the idiot who tried to kidnap Elyane.

 

wait! explain?

Floran Gelb

[Tel Janin Aellinsar]

I was a late-comer (relatively speaking) to the series.  I started the Eye of the World while Winter's Heart was still only available in hardback.  (Early 2001).  And when I finished WH, it felt exactly like what happens when you are walking on a staircase and you think there is another step in front of you, and you confidently put your foot out and get this sensation of falling.  And the sensation has come back every time I finished a new book.  Now, I'm just stuck waiting with bated breath for AMOL

[mcs0083]

I started reading the books in 2003, and I read them pretty fast. I've read them all the way through about 6 times since. I really can't wait for AMOL. I understand the reason why it can't be published as soon as it could have been, but this is torture.