Wheel of Time
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2012-03
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Four Is Enough?.
2012-03-28.
I thought I would next tackle The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. But I don’t seem to have the same enthusiasm I did with the first four books. After reading the prologue and one chapter of Fires, I’m getting a bad feeling.
The Prologue was a mind-numbingly gigantic info-dump that went on forever. Chapter One follows Min with Siuan, Leane, and Logain. It wasn’t terrible but Min is the only one I care about in that bunch. Then Chapter Two gets us back to Rand, who, I’m sorry to admit, is one of my least favorite character in the books. (Possibly eclipsed only by Mat.) Reading Rand and Mat chapters always feels like a chore.
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2012-04
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The Fires of Heaven, A Rant On Dense Characters.
2012-04-05.
I’ve read ten chapters of The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. In Robert Jordan’s world, ten chapters is about 205 pages. I really have a love/hate relationship with these books. Sometimes they are brilliant. Other times they make you want to throw the book (aka. Kindle device) at the wall. And it’s almost never in the middle. It’s usually one of those two extremes.
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On The Fires of Heaven.
2012-04-27.
I finally finished The Fires of Heaven, the fifth book in the Wheel of Time series. I say “finally” because, compared to the three Hunger Games books, Fires of Heaven reads like an encyclopedia.
Apparently this is the book where most people gave up on the series, and I can certainly see why. It’s kind redundant at this point to say “half of the text could have been removed without any effect on the plot,” but it’s never been truer. Yes, yes, it’s all very rich and imaginative detail about the world. But in writing, story is king.
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2012-06
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Bad Character Habits in Wheel of Time.
2012-06-10.
There are a few bad habits that the characters in The Wheel of Time have that they don’t seem to be able to stop themselves from doing even after six books, so I think it might be time for an intervention:
Scrubbing their hands through their hair. Knuckling their moustaches or their backs. Gaping at anyone or anything. Smoothing their skirts. Sniffing. Obsessing over the neckline of women’s dresses. It’s sort of laughable to see these things in the seventh book. Here’s Rand scrubbing a hand through his hair again. Uh oh, Elayne’s sniffing again. And here are some women entering the scene. What kind of dresses are they wearing? Will their necklines be ‘swooping’ low or just ‘dipping’ low? Will there be an oval cutout?
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Raking Instead of Scrubbing.
2012-06-15.
Oh! I almost forgot to mention this:
Raking a hand through his hair, he made himself turn to face her.
Jordan, Robert (2010-04-14). A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of ‘The Wheel of Time’ (p. 668). Macmillan. Kindle Edition.
Rand raked for once! He didn’t scrub!
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Home-grown Wheel of Time Encyclopedias.
2012-06-17.
You know what the world needs? Wikis without spoilers.
I just finished A Crown of Swords, Book 7 of the Wheel of Time. If you haven’t read these books, let me assure that you will not remember everyone and everything. It is physically impossible. You’ll see a name pop up and wonder who or what it is, and where you last saw him/her/it. In those cases, there’s only three things you can do: 1) Keep reading and hope that Robert Jordan fills you in on the details, 2) Use the handy search feature of your Kindle and hope the name is found somewhere earlier, or 3) Lookup the name on a helpful Internet Wheel of Time Wiki Page.
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2013-01
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Sanderson Takes Over.
2013-01-01.
I’ve been trying to get through the Wheel of Time books before A Memory of Light comes out on January 8, and since I am now 20% finished with The Towers of Midnight, I think I can safely say that I am going to make it. Light! What a reading frenzy.
I was keenly interested to see what Brandon Sanderson would do with the series, and so far I’m quite pleased. I can definitely see the change in writing style (mainly in shorter sections and paragraphs and sentences), but I expected that. What I didn’t expect was the emotional impact that Sanderson brought to the series. Sanderson did something that Jordan never managed: He made me actually care about Rand for the first time since the first book. Rand’s been such an insufferable, stubbornly indecipherable butthead of a hero for so long that I frankly hoped the Dark One would win the Last Battle.
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Finished A Memory of Light.
2013-01-15.
The Third Age is finally over. I powered through books 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 all in a row, which has left me exhausted, yet exalted.
Say what you want about it, but you can’t deny that The Wheel of Time is EPIC. I quipped on Facebook that they should retire the category of “epic fantasy” after this because nobody else could possibly write anything as epic. I’m trying to think of anything I’ve read that had a similar scope. Lord of the Rings, obviously, but that was only three tiny, tiny books. The only other books I can think of (that I’ve read) that came close in terms of sheer immersion were Stephen R. Donaldson’s _The Chronicles of Thomas _Covenant and possibly The Sword of Shannara, which I remember as incredibly epic in scope, even though it was only one book, and I read it when I was a teenager.
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2021-11
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Wheel of Time - Season 1, Episodes 1 to 3.
2021-11-22.
A Wheel of Time-length blog post to start a new series dissecting each episode of Wheel of Time. Until I lose interest, of course. It’s a lot of work to write these and it hurts my back.
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Wheel of Time - S1E4: The Dragon Reborn.
2021-11-28.
Episode 4, The Dragon Reborn is the first great episode of the series.
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2021-12
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Wheel of Time - S1E5: Blood Calls Blood.
2021-12-08.
This week’s episode was less of a spectacle.
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Wheel of Time - S1E6: The Flame of Tar Valon.
2021-12-16.
An episode full of Aes Sedai politics.
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Wheel of Time - S1E7: The Dark Within The Ways.
2021-12-24.
The Ways and Fal Dara and The Warder and The Wisdom.
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Wheel of Time - S1E8: The Eye of the World.
2021-12-29.
The final episode of the first season ends with a bang.
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2023-09
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Saturday Bits.
2023-09-17.
One microblogging bit from Saturday. #wheeloftime
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Sunday Bits.
2023-09-18.
Two microblogging bits from Sunday. #baldursgate3 #wheeloftime
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Sunday Bits.
2023-09-25.
Three microblogging bits from Sunday. #baldursgate3 #videos #wheeloftime
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Stupid Title - September 2023.
2023-09-30.
Tiring of Baldur’s Gate 3, Wheel of Time, and more.
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2025-04
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Microblogging Journal through 4/14/2025.
2025-04-14.
Twenty-two microblogging bits from ActivityPub.
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