Nothing is like your first reading - My 1st

[Tiinker]

Summarize! Re reading will just bore you. Unless you like re reading..

[aunt_pol]

Summarize! Re reading will just bore you. Unless you like re reading..

 

Whaaaat? I thought rereading was a condition of membership - there can't be that many here who've only read them once, can there? ???

[-ZanMgt- OneNight]

aunt pol: I doubt many people here have only read it once. If they haven't reread them, (points finger at those who haven't) get reading! ;)

 

Dralid: First off, thank you very much for sharing your experience with us. It is very entertaining and fun to read the thoughts and theory's of a first time reader. Second, I agree with Tiinker don't waste time rereading the chapter for our sakes. Just summarize it and enjoy the rest of the series.

 

Everyone excluding Dralid: Could we keep the posts here on topic please? It is getting annoying going through a dozen comments all of which have nothing to do with the thread.

 

Sorry if I am sounding demanding :-[, but I think most people would agree with me with the whole post thing.

[aunt_pol]

Wouldn't bother, dude. This one is gonna rival the BUT ( at 280+? pages). It's doomed.

[Owayn The Traveller]

The nerve! Asking us to stick to a topic. Sure your off topic asking others to stay on topic and now I'm adding to the problem. Ah no it won't happen again but it was Fr Ted kid. Fr Ted!

 

Seriously though what Pol said is true its going to get unweidly regardless.

[aunt_pol]

Luckers? Are you dossing again?!  >:(

This thread is gonna need some proper management/organisation. Specially with the move next week... Be a sin to lose some of this stuff.

[Dralid]

I'm recording my notes (mostly anyway :P) and will repost anything lost after the move.

 

But your still right, Pol (or do you prefer Auntie?), there's a lot of gold here. I really enjoyed reading the bit about the red wedding. First someone made an offhand comment about it, then someone else expanded on it, and with each post it became more elaborate. My tip off was when some confused reader (who didn't get the joke) asked what everyone was going on about. I kinda believed it for a short while.

[Cillian]

This is good stuff, keep it up!

 

 

 

 

[aunt_pol]

I'm recording my notes (mostly anyway :P) and will repost anything lost after the move.

 

But your still right, Pol (or do you prefer Auntie?), there's a lot of gold here. I really enjoyed reading the bit about the red wedding. First someone made an offhand comment about it, then someone else expanded on it, and with each post it became more elaborate. My tip off was when some confused reader (who didn't get the joke) asked what everyone was going on about. I kinda believed it for a short while.

 

Hrumph...

It's Polgara to you, young man. Hmph.

[xenocross]

you want spoiler? I will give you spoiler!

 

A Complete Fourth Age Text on Tarmon Gaidon & the World's Savior

Collaboratively assembled by the White Tower's Committee of Public Information, with the aid of many notable scholars who know on which side their bread is buttered.

 

1. In the Last Days, all was as Darkness. And Men cried out to the Creator saying "Light of Heaven, send us a Chosen One who will guide us through the evils ahead!" And it came to be that the True Chosen was Birthed in a place between Two Rivers. And it is said that the fluids which gushed forth upon the Birthing were so perfect, they were as sweet as wine, and did cause a spring to flow from where they splattered on the ground. And ever after, the Winespring Water did flow from the exalted place of the Chosen One's arrival on Earth.

.....to be continued

[Loophole]

love this thread  ;D

 

I just started a re-read also i think i will follow at your pace so i can compare my view to yours along the way, maybe it will make me see something i have missed the last million bazillion times. keep it up!

 

[Tiinker]

Summarize! Re reading will just bore you. Unless you like re reading..

 

Whaaaat? I thought rereading was a condition of membership - there can't be that many here who've only read them once, can there? ???

 

Aha i meant read the same chapter in which you've already taken notes in detail and lost and seeing and you already know pretty much exactly what happened to re read it for the sake of others  :D

[Dralid]

Chapter 8 (Summary)

- Okay so Tam is being healed by Moiraine. It appears he has a dark taint of some sort. I'm gonna count that as magical poison.

- Moiraine says the trollocs were there for him (huge surprise :P).Also Moiraine says Rand must leave his village. (Wouldn't be much of an adventure if he didn't). She suggests he leave a note for his Tam: Dad, went to save world, will be back for dinner. Love, Rand.

- The only interesting part is that Dad (and Rand keeps telling himself that he is Dad) won't come to until after they leave). Additionally, he won't wake up until after they've left. I smell a plot device. The question is what does Tam know that would be inconvenient for the plot?

 

Chapter 9

- Dream? I'm guessing dream.

- Shi'tan. A name to remember.

- He's clearly fleeing some sort of evil

- I hate dreams, well in books anyway. They're all like "hey, look at me! I'm foretelling". There's nothing wrong with that per-se, but then authors try to go all super cleaver. You've got to figure out how many different things did the author cram in here?

- General flow of the dream. 1 Rand is in a place with no spring (spring = hope, or spring = spring) 2 He is tempted and nearly caught by the evil one (Myrddraal, probably). Then he gets away (somehow), evil is pursuing him, almost catches him, he gets away somehow (again, aparrently), He is in a joyous city, they are celebrating his progress. Once he enters the tower, now knowing that he is pursuing his destiny. When he reaches the top he finds Myrddraal there. I feel a strong tie to the story in the prologue. Where the protagonist is being blamed for betraying his people, If we assume that these are linked, maybe not directly, but more of in a what has happened before is happening now and will happen again kind of way, that links Rand to the insane man in the prologue... food for thought.

- I had about a dozen other things that the dream may mean, but I don't want to take the time to write them all out. I would never get back to the story. They say that half of all the money in advertising is being wasted, but the question is which half ... well dreams are like that too, half the things in dreams are useless, but which half?

- Upon waking he wonders if naming the Dark one in a dream is bad luck. I double checked, the only line uttered named Shi'tan (I wonder if posting his name brings bad luck too? I'm at twice so far.)

- This changes things slightly... I'm more curious about what Myrrdraal wanted to 'talk' about? 'cause meeting him the tower means that either Rand betrays the world or that Myrrdraal is a more complex character than he appears to be.  ... or that Rand is walking into a trap, but that would be cliché.

- So Rand has spoken with his father, but I'd like to point out that we don't know yet that Tam has seen Moiraine...

- And they're off ... Apparently Mr. Jordan doesn't want Tam to tell us anything too important.

- Heh, Aemon .... I'm currently in a mafia game with him...

- So Mat & Rand & Lan & Moiraine are off.

 

Chapter 10

- Oh, Perrin is with them too, Red shirt?

- EGWENE! (Still doomed for that crush and all, I say)

- THOM!!!!!!!! Hiding in the hayloft, Beautiful!

- Well lookie here, Bela the horse - the deus ex machina here to save the day.

- Oooh, the first Draghkar.

- And they're off!

 

I'll post a new thread for chapter 11. I'll link that one back to this one, and this one forward to that one.

[Tiinker]

When you've read the whole series urge you to go back to tEotW and the dream will become clearer ten fold. And no worries it only brings bad luck if spelt correctly  ;D

[Dralid]

And no worries it only brings bad luck if spelt correctly  ;D

 

Wow, how could I have misspelled Shai'tan? There, am I cursed now?

[Dralid]

Chapter 11 posted!

 

Read it here:

http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,60425.0.html

 

I'll be locking this thread so the discussion doesn't split.