Robert Jordan? Modern Fantasy's friend... or FOE!!??
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Posted 01 October 2005 - 07:57 PM
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Posted 01 October 2005 - 08:18 PM
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Posted 02 October 2005 - 07:40 PM
Edit: To the book club!
This post has been edited by Slade: 02 October 2005 - 07:44 PM
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Posted 08 October 2005 - 11:00 AM
This post has been edited by banned: 08 October 2005 - 11:01 AM
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Posted 10 October 2005 - 08:33 PM
EDIT: Dune Book, because if you ask me the first one is the only one worth reading.
This post has been edited by Wayne: 10 October 2005 - 08:34 PM
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Posted 20 October 2005 - 03:39 PM
Can you tell me more about this "Wheel of Time" series? What else has RJ written?
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
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Posted 30 November 2005 - 02:08 PM
Incidentally, I was duped into reading this series while I was bedridden in a hospital in Europe. A friend of mine had been nagging me to pick the series up, and brought the books to me when I had the option of staring at the ceiling all day, watching German game shows, or reading these books. By the end of the week, I had finished 3 and 1/2 books, and back then that was half the series, so I figured I may as well keep going.
I feel like I have to justify myself for spending so many hours on this nonsense.
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Posted 30 November 2005 - 06:58 PM
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Posted 03 December 2005 - 02:31 PM
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Posted 03 December 2005 - 11:19 PM
I know that some of his phrases may sound weird (especially 'wool-head') and his constant and continual talk about how immature some characters are (you'd think he'd lay off what is and what is not childish for once), he's still a good author, mostly. I didn't read the last two novel yet since I haven't gotten there, but I did hear that he starts to lose his sense of story and make descriptions of everything here and there like some hack writer (and I HATE those).
Personally, I believe that he's a friend to fantasy since his writing doesn't remotely resemble the crap that other's have written in the genre in the past two decades. His most recent novels are apparently an exception to that, from what I've heard.