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About to start wheel of time after I learned that the author has actually killed people, I now understand the appeal.

>> No.20740944

Has he really?

>> No.20741180

>>20740891
WoT is my only reading regret. Too many books to say so little. The first book was great though before the magic wore off.

>> No.20741286

Don't buy it from amazon, they deliberately removed cover art because they didn't want people to associate the white, blue eyed characters described in the story and depicted on the cover. Instead they want you to see the characters as their PRIME ORIGINAL cast, which is the most random collection of hideously ugly mutts ever assembled.

I'm almost through book 7 and it's been awesome so far, but there's stuff that's starting to piss me off about the story and characters. I bitched about it in another thread already. Anyway jump in and start reading faggot

>> No.20741304

>>20741286
Go back to /pol/.

>> No.20741323

>>20741286
only rand out of the main cast has blue eyes.

>> No.20741344

>>20740944
Yes, he killed like a dozen dudes with a machine gun in Vietnam and earned the nickname "Iceman" for it. He talked about it in an interview I saw posted here a while ago.

>> No.20741352

>>20741344
Found it.
>I had two nicknames in 'Nam. First up was Ganesha, after the Hindu god called the Remover of Obstacles. He's the one with the elephant head. That one stuck with me, but I gained another that I didn't like so much. The Iceman. One day, we had what the Aussies called a bit of a brass-up. Just our ship alone, but we caught an NVA battalion crossing a river, and wonder of wonders, we got permission to fire before they finished. The gunner had a round explode in the chamber, jamming his 60, and the fool had left his barrel bag, with spares, back in the revetment. So while he was frantically rummaging under my seat for my barrel bag, it was over to me, young and crazy, standing on the skid, singing something by the Stones at the of my lungs with the mike keyed so the others could listen in, and Lord, Lord, I rode that 60. 3000 rounds, an empty ammo box, and a smoking barrel that I had burned out because I didn't want to take the time to change. We got ordered out right after I went dry, so the artillery could open up, and of course, the arty took credit for every body recovered, but we could count how many bodies were floating in the river when we pulled out. The next day in the orderly room an officer with a literary bent announced my entrance with "Behold, the Iceman cometh." For those of you unfamiliar with Eugene O'Neil, the Iceman was Death. I hated that name, but I couldn't shake it. And, to tell you the truth, by that time maybe it fit. I have, or used to have, a photo of a young man sitting on a log eating C-rations with a pair of chopsticks. There are three dead NVA laid out in a line just beside him. He didn't kill them. He didn't chose to sit there because of the bodies. It was just the most convenient place to sit. The bodies don't bother him. He doesn't care. They're just part of the landscape. The young man is glancing at the camera, and you know in one look that you aren't going to take this guy home to meet your parents. Back in the world, you wouldn't want him in your neighborhood, because he is cold, cold, cold. I strangled that SOB, drove a stake through his heart, and buried him face down under a crossroad outside Saigon before coming home, because I knew that guy wasn't made to survive in a civilian environment. I think he's gone. All of him. I hope so. I much prefer being remembered as Ganesha, the Remover of Obstacles.

>> No.20741535

It's pretty good, but you'd better be ready for the long haul.

I am on book six, Lord of Chaos, and it is great so far.

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>>20741344
>>20741352
holy fucking based, time to read

>> No.20742406

>>20741323
Rand has gray eyes

>> No.20742437

>>20741535
I'm on book 8 and Lord of Chaos is second only to the Great Hunt in my opinion

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>>20741352
He does look like a serial killer, he reminds me of Ed Kemper.

>> No.20743199

>>20741352
Kino

>> No.20743216

I've only read the first book, should I stop? I kinda want to keep going even though I've mildly spoiled some stuff

>> No.20743587

Who is the most based? For me it's Mazrim Taime

>> No.20744172

>>20743216
I mean its 14 huge books im sure you didnt get spoiled on everything....

>> No.20744186

>>20740944
Yes. He apprently had PTSD from killing a woman he tought to be a man in vietnam .

>> No.20744351

>>20744186
Troons even in vietnam.

>> No.20745249

>>20740944
Yes

>> No.20745350

>>20740891
The main problem with wheel of time in my opinion is that he died before finishing and we got Brandon Sanderson writing the ending
Sanderson writes like his audience is the average American

>> No.20745561

>>20745350
And it is.

>> No.20745924

>>20740891
Jordan's highs are very highs and his lows are terribly low, be aware. You will be jumping from truly epic fantasy to unending slogs all the time, and the payment sometimes can make you doubt if the journey was worth the effort.
>>20741352
He had balls, that's undeniable. Rand is also the only fantasy protagonist so far I have seen getting and keeping an actual harem. Three wives man.

>> No.20745955

>>20740891
First book was extremely comfy with all the travelling and sleeping out in taverns trying to scape enough together to get to the next city etc. But I got fed up by book 8 or so. It feels like the first third of every book is reiterating the events of the previous, and then throughout the rest of the book fuck all happens. So much shit goes on that is of no consequence; I remember that three of the heroines join a circus to travel incognito to a city, which it turns out they decided not to go to, and all that seemed to be the purpose of the chapters in question was Jordan dressing up his waifus in leotards.
I am personally keen on the idea that the whole series was just Jordan trying to get his editor wife to consider freaky bedroom shit through the most autistic suggestion method possible.

>> No.20746332

>>20740891
Just started book 2, but I’m only gonna read the first three books. The rest can go fuck itself.

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>>20745955
Blood and ashes, anon!

>> No.20748347

>>20746332
The third leads directly into the fourth. If you read Dragon Reborn you will read Shadow.

>> No.20748685

>>20740891
Has he really?