The only book in the entire series I did not like was The Crossroads of Twilight. Although, I do agree with many in suggesting that books 3 through 6 are among the very best 4 of the entire WoT series.

I for one have always though the Seanchan ads a lot of flavour to the Wheal of Time series. All civilizations in the world of WoT must find a way to handle the stress which the power of male and female channelers places on society, and Robert Jordan seems to have taken great pains to show as many variations on this theme as possible. With channelers on positions of power in all other lands the Seanchan serves an a striking exception. I also thing they serve as an important plot tool in the end. If everyone had conformed to the same values and ethics in the end it would make the future seem a bit boring. All to many fantasy authors feel that they must resolve all conflicts permanently in the last book, but since life does not work that way it is a bit illogical to use it even in books unless you actually kill the darkness in the hearts of men.

Although I would never condone slavery in a civilization, I do like that Robert Jordan chose to bring in the Seanchan culture and history as a way to show an opposite method that a society with many channelers could have developed. I enjoyed comparing and contrasting the Seanchan culture with those in Randland, where the people mostly distrust many of the Aes Sedai along with comparing the Seanchan and the Aes Sedai to the ways in which the Wise Ones of the Aiel and also the Windfinders of the Sea Folk earned their positions of authority AND respect.

Thursday evening, July 11th, I started reading Dark Inheritance by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O`Neal Gear. Although I do MOST of my reading during my breaks at work, I am over one hundred pages into this book. I am hooked into this very good story with interesting characters. 

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Inheritance-W-Michael-Gear/dp/B005Q87G1C/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373775362&sr=1-2&keywords=dark+inheritance

On Friday night, June 28th, I began reading, during my breaks at work, 1635: The Dreeson Incident by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce. 

Tonight at work, I will begin reading, 1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce.

I have almost finished 1632 by Eric Flint. Then, I will read the second sequel in that series. Unfortunately, I don't have the very first sequel yet, 1633.

 

Thursday night at work, I started reading Storm of Iron a WarHammer 40K book by Graham McNeill. 

 

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Storm-of-Iron-2008-Edition.html

If you've not read them yet, check out the Night Lords trilogy by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Black Library's best writer, writing about the best Chaos Legion.

 

I read about that trilogy over on Amazon.com. It sounds like it will be an excellent Warhammer 40K trilogy for me to read. 

Thursday night at work, I started reading Storm of Iron a WarHammer 40K book by Graham McNeill. 

http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Storm-of-Iron-2008-Edition.html

Ah Look. Now we got a cool sky roof.

The above song, "The One" by Disciple is what was blasting inside my head and also on my stereo when I was reading the climactic chapters in AMOL. *headbangs* 

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Last night, I started reading, Dark Adeptus a Warhammer 40K novel written by Ben Counter.

 http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Dark-Adeptus.html

Yesterday, I started a book by an author whom I have  not read before. Her name is Heather Graham and the book is: The Unseen

 

 

I am currently reading "Curse of the Mistwraith" by Janny Wurts.  It is the first book in her War of Light and Shadow series.  Mrs. Wurts seems to love the thesaurus, or has an incredible mastry of the english language.  Either way, I fear I am no longer secure in my personal belief of "knowing enough words to get by".

 

If there wasn't a dictionary built into my e-reader, half of the most eloquent descriptions would be lost on me - and graduated college Summa Cum Laude in English and History!  Do not get me wrong, as the story is well worth the literary challenge.  Her word choices are perfectly matched to the scenes as well, they are just a little disused or esoteric bits left over a pre-internet education.  (Knowing latin roots, suffixes, and prefixes helps here, not sight reading.  ;) )

 

Still, I am left feeling I may have stumbled into a series akin in deapth of WoT.  She certainly has a method to her world's magic system and a skilled hand at crafting believable characters.  Let's just see how this first book fairs....

 

Sounds interesting. After you finish the first book, I would love to know what kind of recommendation you would give for that book.

 

As to "Curse of the Mistwraith", the characters are heart-wrenchingly human and the author has successfully made a war fought in proverbial shades of gray.  I could cheer for either side, though I find myself favoring the Shadow Master at the end of the first book.  The magic system is spectacular in its scope and detail and fates change as quickly as a shift of the wind.  The key "change" that sparks the war of the series does seem forced, but without giving things away, I will simply state that this is in keeping with the cause.

 

Bear in mind, I usually read books of this one's length within a week, but this one took almost three weeks with the same amount of time per day dedicated to its completion.  While this is not as easy a read was WoT though, it isn't as difficult as classic literature either.  So, long story short, if you don't mind keeping a dictionary handy, I do recommend this series.

 

Now, off to start the second book in the series.  Cliff hangers are major, steep dropoffs, and I for one, am glad Mrs. Wurts is working on the final arc of the series.  She might finish by the time I catch up, so I won't have to wait between books.  :)

Thank you. That sounds like a very good book and one that I shall put on my must read list. 

Yesterday, I finished 1634: The Baltic War and this morning, I started reading The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire; Book One) written by Clay and Susan Griffith.

I just finished AMOL about 30 minutes ago. Words fail me, they truly do. Yet I feel the need to find the right words, much as Thom was doing.

 

I've been reading WoT for 12 years. Not as long as some of you, true. But it helped to shape me, make me into who I am today. I felt such sadness that it was ending, that there would never be another Wheel of Time book. But then, there are no true endings, are there?  

 

For everyone who died, I cried. Having grown up with these characters, these friends, every death was painful (yes, even Gawyn's.) The only part I didn't like was Siuan's death, the way that it happened "off-camera", so to speak. I feel that she deserved a better ending than she got, but I also feel that she wouldn't have wanted her death to be distracting, somehow. And of course, Gareth charging the Trollocs in full battle mode was a fitting end for him.

 

Bela. So she wasn't the Dark One, but she survived to carry Olver when he needed it. And of course Olver would be the Hornsounder; very fitting. 

 

Faile not dying was good. I know many have hated her, and while I never loved her, the hurt that would have caused Perrin would have been too much.

 

Egwene's death, while sad, was perfect. The Amyrlin's Flame, turns the Shadow to Crystal. Beautiful.

 

I can't begin to express how glad I am that Lan survived. Not only survived, but killed Demandred! Perfect. Tai'shar Malkier!

 

Mat, Fortuona, Min, Aviendha, Elayne, Birgitte...I think they all were wonderful in this. So glad we have a name for Min's Talent now! I wish that we somehow could see Mat's child, and Elayne's, and Avi's (because I'm sure she's pregnant), see them grow up, and become the next generation of awesome...but I think that's probably best left to us, isn't it? Us, the generation of people who read the Wheel of Time, will never let it end. We, the fans, will keep it alive, introducing it to our children, who will grow up with it, and get to ask (for a while) "But what happens next??" with eyes of wonder and souls of adventure.

 

For a while.

 

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.

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I am currently reading "Curse of the Mistwraith" by Janny Wurts.  It is the first book in her War of Light and Shadow series.  Mrs. Wurts seems to love the thesaurus, or has an incredible mastry of the english language.  Either way, I fear I am no longer secure in my personal belief of "knowing enough words to get by".

 

If there wasn't a dictionary built into my e-reader, half of the most eloquent descriptions would be lost on me - and graduated college Summa Cum Laude in English and History!  Do not get me wrong, as the story is well worth the literary challenge.  Her word choices are perfectly matched to the scenes as well, they are just a little disused or esoteric bits left over a pre-internet education.  (Knowing latin roots, suffixes, and prefixes helps here, not sight reading.  ;) )

 

Still, I am left feeling I may have stumbled into a series akin in deapth of WoT.  She certainly has a method to her world's magic system and a skilled hand at crafting believable characters.  Let's just see how this first book fairs....

Sounds interesting. After you finish the first book, I would love to know what kind of recommendation you would give for that book.

Sut, and mbuenher, the both of you are, of course, entirely incorrect. 

Both of you are free to choose to believe what you want to believe. However, there have been 197 people who voted in the poll of this thread, and those 197 appear to disagree with you both that Nakomi is fanfic and that she is something inexplicably random put into the book by Sanderson without any input at all from RJ. 

Clearly, though, continuing this conversation with either one of you is a waste of my time, so this post is the last that I will say to either one of you about Nakomi.

 

 

BS also has a long history of making statements with a wink and a nod that turn out to be... lets, be generous and call them Aes Sedaiesque ultimately. The points he made could apply to virtually anything and meet the letter of the law.

 

The whole thing is entirely condescending. Its like asking a small child 'well what do YOU think it means?!'. Well and good if youre talking about Santa with a 6 year old, but I'm a grown assed man that has spent twenty years ready these books and would appreciate at least not having smoke blown at my nether regions. You know how I know Nakomi was a McGuffin made to look 'cool' and 'mysterious', because there is literally nothing else left for her to be. Books are over, she came out of nowhere and went nowere and there isnt even enough scraps to have a real debate over. Thats weak sauce.

 

 

Apparently, there is more than enough scraps concerning Nakomi to have 8 pages of debate here on Dragonmount. That does not sound like weak sauce to me.

 

Eight pages of bitching more like it. Plus you can get 8 pages on whether a grolm can beat a fade. There's good debate and bad debate. When your series is over and your debating why some unexplained character popped up to inexplicably save your main character's life, you've got yourself a bad debate.

Do you have a problem with not all of your questions being answered? Or did you NOT know that RJ himself had said in interviews  that he would finish the series with some questions still not being answered?

Also, there is  nothing in the text that says Nakomi saved Rand's life. Nothing at all. Perhaps you think this is a bad debate because of your own misinterpretations of the scenes from the books?

BS also has a long history of making statements with a wink and a nod that turn out to be... lets, be generous and call them Aes Sedaiesque ultimately. The points he made could apply to virtually anything and meet the letter of the law.

 

The whole thing is entirely condescending. Its like asking a small child 'well what do YOU think it means?!'. Well and good if youre talking about Santa with a 6 year old, but I'm a grown assed man that has spent twenty years ready these books and would appreciate at least not having smoke blown at my nether regions. You know how I know Nakomi was a McGuffin made to look 'cool' and 'mysterious', because there is literally nothing else left for her to be. Books are over, she came out of nowhere and went nowere and there isnt even enough scraps to have a real debate over. Thats weak sauce.

Apparently, there is more than enough scraps concerning Nakomi to have 8 pages of debate here on Dragonmount. That does not sound like weak sauce to me.

 

I have decided to try something different than my usual genres of books.

 

Has anyone here read anything from the alternate-history sub-genre of science fiction?

 

 

Currently, I am reading 1634: The Baltic War (the Ring of Fire series) by Eric Flint and David Weber.

 

I just googled the series a little bit, sounds pretty interesting... How are you finding it so far?

I am about 400 pages into the book, and its really pretty good. So far, its a real page turner that is difficult to put down.

I have decided to try something different than my usual genres of books.

Has anyone here read anything from the alternate-history sub-genre of science fiction?

Currently, I am reading 1634: The Baltic War (the Ring of Fire series) by Eric Flint and David Weber.

I read A Memory of Light immediately after Amazon delivered it to me on Jan.8th. It took me almost a week to read the story I waited almost 23 years to get in order to read how the greatest fantasy series of all time ends.

Afterwards, I read Ted Dekker's Sanctuary and Mortals.

Now, I am doing my first re-read of A Memory of Light.

I finished AMOL in 4 days

Why

Because:

I've started reading at book The Eye of the World

I waited 20 years for this book

I read something like : 1, 1,2, 1,2,3 , 1,2,3,4, 1,2,3,4,5 5,6, 5,6,7, 6,7,8, 6,7,8,9, 9,10, 10,11, 11,12, 12, 13, 1 to 14

I was so excited and emerged in the story that I breathed shallow and had to come up for air.

 

I laughed 

I cried

I yelled, YES!!!

I yelled NOOOO!

 

It was perfect because it wasn't , life isn't 

the wheel turns

 

It was a once in a lifetime experience

and yet

I can read it again, and again, and again

 

Thank you Robert, Harriet and Brian

 

May you always find shade and water

and

peace favour your sword

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