How did I forget Min?!

1. Aviendha/Nynaeve

Avi - I love her POVs and her ramblings about Wetlanders, also her long slow acceptance of her love for Rand.

Nynaeve - I love her temper and her stubbornness, her POVs are the funniest, I like how she cares about everyone.

2. Mat

Once again for his hilarious POVs, his way with the ladies, his luck, his carefree attitude and his heroics. Despite what he tells himself he's a very caring guy and would sacrifice himself to rescue his friends.

3. Moiraine/Lan

These two are awesome in the earlier books, their devotion to their cause is admirable.

4. Siuan Sanche

I love her fish metaphors and her distrust of horses, also like Moiraine she is totally dedicated to the Light.

5. Rand al'Thor/Lews Therin Telamon

Rand - All the stuff he goes through is enough to make anyone crazy, let alone the taint in saidin. I like his growth as a character, his ups and downs and then his awesomeness in ToM.

Lews - I like how he hums when he sees a pretty lady.

6. Perrin

I like his wolf related stories and his reluctance to be a leader, even though it went on for ever. In ToM he is awesome.

7. Tam al'Thor

The kind of guy you would trust with your life, dependable, capable and very reasonable. The perfect father.

8. Birgitte

The awesomest lady in WoT.

9. Rodel Ituralde

Out of the great captains, he is my favourite. His battle tactics are the best.

10. Egwene

The way she proves that she really is the Amyrlin Seat.

11. Thom/Domon Bayle/Juilin

Without these men those silly girls would be dead by now.

12. Sorilea

She can beat the crap out of Cadsuane.

I, on the other hand, find it off putting when I come across a real world name in a fantasy novel. *cough* Gareth Byrne *cough*.

Why do the Aiel insist on addressing the Wetlanders with their full names and they consider it rude when Wetlanders address each other with just their first names, yet the Aiel themselves don't have last names? How did they develop this taboo when they don't even have last names?

I had quite a bit of trouble trying to pronounce the names when I first started, as I like to pronounce things properly. After I finished reading the first book I looked at the back of the book and I was disheartened to find out nearly all my pronunciations were wrong, (lol apart from the easy names: Mat, Rand, Min, etc. ). In the following books I made a conscious effort to pronounce them like they should be, believe me it took a long time. There's still loads of words that I can't pronounce properly, and I fear I never will. Cairhien for instance gave me the most trouble. With such words I would first pronounce them phonetically, i.e. CAH-eer-hee-EN, I suppose KEYE-ree-EHN is not so hard but it seems wrong somehow after getting used to my way.

I also failed at pronouncing Faile, it's Fah'EEL not Fale. Similar to the Tah-EEM and Sha-EE-do.

Also I didn't like the fact that Siuan is pronounced like swan (my way: see-you-AHN) and Seanchan is swan-chan (my way: SAY-AHN-chan).

Well, once you accept the way things are meant to be pronounced the books become easier to read I find.

For the past 2 weeks I've been reading Gardens of the Moon, first book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen novels, I'm either going through a readers block or this book is extremely tough to get trough, or both, or all 3 at once. Normally I would read a book this big in 3 or 4 days.

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Who is the Lord of Chaos?

Is it the DO? is it Moridin?

I forgot.