Wheel of Time fans, (Note, massive spoilers in here!)

[macbone]

A WoT map would be awesome, but securing the rights to make it is too much of a long shot. Of course, someone could always make a WoT-esque map.

And Brandon Sanderson has been awesome for the Wheel of Time series. I'm looking forward to the last book finally coming out.

[Lord and Master]

if WoT could be given the HBO mini-series treatment!

Why?

It would inevitably be a disappointment.

Well you're just a little ray of sunshine aren't you! Or should that be blast of bale-fire?! GoT readers seem to have been reasonably satisfied so why would you just flat out assume WoT would be so shabbily done as to be "inevitably disappointing"?!

I still think it'd be cool so neerr

[shieldgenerator7]

This series looks cool, after reading all these spoilers.
Just from this thread, it reminds me of a few other series: The Lonely Winds [url]thelonelywinds.com[/url], Quantum Leap, Time Tunnel, Wheel in the Sky (a song actually).
I might look this up and see what it's about.

The 14th and final book is coming out next year. The books are an average of 6 or 7 hundred pages. Are you sure you can handle it?

Yeah, I can handle it. Credentials: read all of Don Quixote, plus a whole bunch of other books,

700 pages! Wow! sounds fun!

[muy_thaiguy]

Okay, the last book has been out for over a week now, and while good, it left a few things "meh" or "yuck" for me, it was still enjoyable.

Spoiler

The Good-

Androl & Pevara (Had a nice relationship, with some pretty entertaining parts in there.)

Mat & Tuon (Always like this duo)

Siuan & Bryne (despite deaths, which honestly made me feel sad for them, considering what they went through).

Battle of Merrilor (honestly, had a feeling it would come down to this, other than what was at Shayol Ghul, all forces of the Light faced the bulk of the Dark One's forces).

Rand living (though, still not a fan of the bodyswap stuff, though I understand why it was used)

Use of the Dragons later on (makes tactical sense and it did incredible damage)

Lan (espescially taking out Demandred)

Olver (kid is resourceful, brave, and is going to be very interesting growing up)


The Meh

Dark Aiel (Not used as widely as I would have thought)

The overall battle (was really jumping and sometimes made it hard to follow along, trying to squeeze too much into it)

Lanfear (so much for being a "grey" Forsaken, but kind of a anticlimatic ending for her)

Graendal (well, I guess you could call it getting what you deserve)

Egwene (Egwene was Egwene. Never cared much for her, but never wanted her to die, just to learn some humility in front of certain people for once, but she went out with a bang, that much to her credit)

Galad (did more or less what I expected of him)

Perrin (About the same)


The Bad

Gawyn (once again, he goes off on his own, and this time pays the ultimate price)

Bodyswap of Rand and Moridin (was never a fan of it, even though Rand lived)

Rand just leaving everyone he was ever close to, with only 4 people knowing what happened to him.

No prologue. Just a sentence or a paragraph about what happened to the main characters at least would have been nice.


The WTF/da-amn moments

Turning the Aes Sedai and Asha'man. That honestly made my stomach do somersalts.

The Sharans. Much like the Easterlings in Lord of the Rings. Minus the giant elephants, plus hundreds of channelers.

The lack of Aiel. They never say how many Aiel go to Shayol Ghul, but sounded like, even with battles and defections, hundreds of thousands were seemingly missing.

Same with the Asha'man stationed to the South. Dozens of men, at least, that could channel were seemingly forgotten.

Graendal the Banshee. Boy did she go bananas when she lost her looks, and than she Compelled herself in the end. Just desserts I guess?

Eggy inventing the counter to balefire, and then exploding without anyone else seemingly learning it. More of a "crap, really?" kind of moment, but still.

Min becoming an honored member of Seanchan society. That was amusing. And in your face.

Slayer/Luc having mental mercy for a street Urchin. Odd for someone who never weemed to otherwise have compassion for anyone elses's life but his own.

Rand finally ending it with Lanfear. Nuff said.


All in all, a good book, but still left some elements missing.

[PLAYER57832]

Have any of you read "Towers of Midnight" yet? Just finished, and I have to say, I am REALLY looking forward to the last book.

I used to be a big fan, but around about book 7 or 8, I was not able to keep buying the books and they stopped appearing in my local libabraries.

now.. its so detailed, I would have to go back to the start to even know what is happening.

[BigBallinStalin]

I stopped around book 5, read the summary for book 6, then lost interest.

The series was becoming too repetitive, tedious, and stagnant.

[muy_thaiguy]

I stopped around book 5, read the summary for book 6, then lost interest.

The series was becoming too repetitive, tedious, and stagnant.

Have any of you read "Towers of Midnight" yet? Just finished, and I have to say, I am REALLY looking forward to the last book.

<BR sab="696">I used to be a big fan, but around about book 7 or 8, I was not able to keep buying the books and they stopped appearing in my local libabraries.<BR sab="697"><BR sab="698">now.. its so detailed, I would have to go back to the start to even know what is happening.

It picks up the pace in the later books, especially from 10 onwards.

[Gypsys Kiss]

I wonder which idiot decided it would be a good idea to wait 3 months before releasing it in e-book format.

[muy_thaiguy]

I wonder which idiot decided it would be a good idea to wait 3 months before releasing it in e-book format.

If I had to guess, either TOR (the publisher) or Harriet, Robert Jordan's wife (who doubled as his and Brandon Sanderson's editor).