Reading the Wheel of Time books is like being in an abusive relationship, it treats you good, it treats you bad, you hate yourself for loving it and love yourself for hating it. You may break away for a while (it's much more than a bit bogged down, a decent editor could've cut four or five books worth easily), but you keep going back even though you know there's nothing left but pain and regret.
I can't remember which book I stopped at, I think it was around 8-9, where there was a single conversation with 2 bitches doing their laundry that lasted like 50 pages... It was just a recap of what had happened in the last book and it was so goddamn boring that I just lost interest.
That and every major death of the main cast getting retconned as long as they used that super magic fire bullshit. Then finding out the ending ain't even by the author since he kicked the bucket, eh fuck that.
Nynaeve is one of the best characters in the series. Once she realizes she's not in Kansas anymore, around book 4-5. She'd be best girl if Min didn't exist.
Elayne is a thot. Egwene has too many problems to list, but mainly unwarranted self-importance and an unwillingness to learn from mistakes.
Faile is only annoying because Perrin is so annoying. If Perrin just manned the fuck up, he could've controlled his woman between books 5-10
I'm pretty sure the end actually was written by the author. Sanderson filled in some of the stuff leading up to the end, but he did a pretty inconsistent job of it.
You unfortunately quit right before things turned around. Some of the best and craziest scenes were either at the end of that book or the next (can't remember which). (edit: It's possible I'm remembering the wrong laundry conversation - I think there may have been several).
The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
The story's main character is the reincarnation of history's strongest male magic user. So of course the vast majority of female magic users take some exception to the entire situation.
And also holy fuck yes it gets bogged down. I can only guess that the author's life was in some way tied to the life of his characters because it felt like every single book a dozen characters got added and none of them ever fucking died. That's the reason I gave up the series 10 or so books in. I just couldn't fucking keep up with it anymore.
And then the final book happened, in particular the Final Battle chapter [which was like a ninth of the entire book], and characters just started dropping left and right, many with zero fanfare or grand send off.
The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
I've seen this trope quite a few times (three times as exactly that, magic with a male and female side and the male side was corrupted by some evil deity figure), and it would be refreshing if just once the corrupted "evil" side was the "female" side instead. They even did it with the Force in the Clone Wars tv show, with the light side being represented by the Sister character and the dark by the Brother.
lol Is it really? I have the books, but I haven't gotten to them yet. I've also heard it gets a bit bogged down later in the series.
Reading the Wheel of Time books is like being in an abusive relationship, it treats you good, it treats you bad, you hate yourself for loving it and love yourself for hating it. You may break away for a while (it's much more than a bit bogged down, a decent editor could've cut four or five books worth easily), but you keep going back even though you know there's nothing left but pain and regret.
10/10 would recommend.
I can't remember which book I stopped at, I think it was around 8-9, where there was a single conversation with 2 bitches doing their laundry that lasted like 50 pages... It was just a recap of what had happened in the last book and it was so goddamn boring that I just lost interest.
That and every major death of the main cast getting retconned as long as they used that super magic fire bullshit. Then finding out the ending ain't even by the author since he kicked the bucket, eh fuck that.
If you skip the chapters for Nynaeve, Egwene, and Elayne it ends up being a fun series. Oh yeah, also skip Faile chapters after book 5 or so.
Really, any female character for the most part.
Nynaeve is one of the best characters in the series. Once she realizes she's not in Kansas anymore, around book 4-5. She'd be best girl if Min didn't exist.
Elayne is a thot. Egwene has too many problems to list, but mainly unwarranted self-importance and an unwillingness to learn from mistakes.
Faile is only annoying because Perrin is so annoying. If Perrin just manned the fuck up, he could've controlled his woman between books 5-10
I'm pretty sure the end actually was written by the author. Sanderson filled in some of the stuff leading up to the end, but he did a pretty inconsistent job of it.
You unfortunately quit right before things turned around. Some of the best and craziest scenes were either at the end of that book or the next (can't remember which). (edit: It's possible I'm remembering the wrong laundry conversation - I think there may have been several).
The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
The story's main character is the reincarnation of history's strongest male magic user. So of course the vast majority of female magic users take some exception to the entire situation.
And also holy fuck yes it gets bogged down. I can only guess that the author's life was in some way tied to the life of his characters because it felt like every single book a dozen characters got added and none of them ever fucking died. That's the reason I gave up the series 10 or so books in. I just couldn't fucking keep up with it anymore.
And then the final book happened, in particular the Final Battle chapter [which was like a ninth of the entire book], and characters just started dropping left and right, many with zero fanfare or grand send off.
I've seen this trope quite a few times (three times as exactly that, magic with a male and female side and the male side was corrupted by some evil deity figure), and it would be refreshing if just once the corrupted "evil" side was the "female" side instead. They even did it with the Force in the Clone Wars tv show, with the light side being represented by the Sister character and the dark by the Brother.
The male side might be corrupted physically (magically?), but that doesn't mean that the female magicians aren't also horribly corrupt.
Jordan isn't exactly subtle either. The Aes Sedai literally live in an ivory tower in the middle of vagina island