The Wheel of Time

25Oct09

Three days of insomnia later… I read The Eye of the World for the first time about 11 yers ago, back then I was still a child in alot of ways and didnt get the complexity in the World that Jordan had created, I instantly took a liking in Rand since he could channel where the other male characters couldnt. But that has changes since I grew older I guess Rand is a character that alot of teenagers I dont know if connect with is the correct term to use it wasnt like that in my case atleast I just found him to be the “coolest” character back then.

Like alot of writers there is always a problem to keep each book as exciting or more exciting then the previous one but I think Jordan is one of the few writers that has actually succeeded in this. On to the story the series is about the people that live in the world and there are tons of characters believe me and this is one of the reasons it has alienated alot of people, I have alot of friends that read fantasy but they tend to read shorter series around 3-4 books long, and you know when you take on The Wheel of Time you have to be prepared to get confused and re-read alot parts just to remember all the characters and what they are doing and for alot of people this is to much. I love it tho there is nothing like a complex series to keep you up at night. The story in the books is pretty classic, good versus evil, light against darkness and in a world where the darkness is slowly gaining a foothold a boy is born accordning the prophecy and he shall save mankind.
It’s been over 2 years now since Jordan passed away and I hate to regret that my first though when I heard that he had passed was “oh fuck what will happen to the last books now?”, so I basically ignored all posts and news related to if the series was going to get finished or not. But a few months ago a friend of mine spoiled that someone was going to finish them so I looked it up on dragonmount.com and found out a man named Brandon Sanderson was going to finish it. So who is Brandon Sanderson? I noticed he had gotten some good praise from various writers on one of his stand-alone books called Elantris. I cant say I care about other peopels thoughs concerning books or movies etc. you have to create an oppinion for yourself or else your just a slave to other peoples thoughts. Anyway I bought all the books from the Mistborn series and Elantris and I just finished Mistborn which is the first book in the series the other day and you know I cant say that im impressed dont get me wrong I really like his way of writing but the story wasnt for me. I dont think he’ll screw up the remaining Wheel of Time books tho since he is an good writer and a big fan of the series and he doesnt have to come up with the story by himself (yeah I know im mean but I really didnt like Mistborn).

As of today I have read the series four times (so far) and I still love it, only 2 days to go before the Gathering Storm!!!.

Oh well time to sleep…….I think….. Next update will be White Knight Chronicles EX for the ps3 and after that  The Twilight Saga.

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