7 minutes ago, Leland said:

Hey welcome.

So what did you think of the series? Have you finished them all?

Hiya.

I did end up finishing, yes! I didn't have the time/energy for a full re-read incorporating the last few books since I found fandom less than three months ago so I Wiki'd to remind myself and then completed by reading the books I hadn't read as a teenager (post-KoD). Not ideal, but my TBR is too long to justify it. I'll probably do a proper re-read to get a better sense of everything later this year, though, I think.

I've never been a big fantasy fan, in truth (especially when there are too many non-human characters and/or not enough women), but I always found the magic system and worldbuilding superior, and whilst I think the construction and depiction of relationships sometimes fell flat for me and some threads of plot wearied me, there's such a wide array of characters that there were many that I latched onto emotionally and thus invested me in the series. 

I first read WoT in the 2000s as a teenager and had read everything up until and including Knife of Dreams twice. Then there was a wait before The Gathering Storm. And between release dates, I got distracted. For about fifteen years... (Yes, I recently completed the series only after spoiling myself silly - willingly).

Anyway, I've always primarily been a lurker online, whether on LiveJournal or messageboards or Tumblr, and while I don't expect that to change dramatically, I wanted to at least give myself the chance to respond when I got frustrated or enlivened by something I read on these forums. Started digging into old and current threads after the first few episodes of the television show (which yes, I started watching for A. Nostalgia and B. Rosamund Pike) and thought I'd find myself a chair to settle into. So to speak. 

Other points of interest are non-existent, but the basics: Australian (half-British), early-thirties, very obsessive, reads almost as many books as I buy, and into Mythology, Etymology, Logic and Actresses Playing Sapphic Roles.