Path of Daggers
Aug. 9th, 2010 12:24 pm( Read more... )
I have, after a certain amount of introspection, been re-reading Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I think it gets an undeserved amount of negative press. It seems like it is a number of really good things, mixed with a number of mediocre things, some of which are sometimes really aggravating. So I, and other people, are extremely annoyed that (i) it goes ON and ON and ON and (ii) some of that length is people puttering around making gender stereotype generalisations or screwing up the fate of the world by having fits of pique and not talking to each other. But that shouldn't detract from the good things.
Good things #1. Good characters.
Many (or most) of the characters are a bit two-dimensional but they're also very memorable. By book 6, many of the one-line Aes Sedai characters have started to blur into one another. But in the first book alone, I can name, without trying, about 30 individual very memorable characters, and the same for the next few (combined), which I think is really impressive, considering there are some films which were fun but where I can't name any of the characters.
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Good things #1. Good characters.
Many (or most) of the characters are a bit two-dimensional but they're also very memorable. By book 6, many of the one-line Aes Sedai characters have started to blur into one another. But in the first book alone, I can name, without trying, about 30 individual very memorable characters, and the same for the next few (combined), which I think is really impressive, considering there are some films which were fun but where I can't name any of the characters.
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Robert Jordan, Rest in Peace
Sep. 17th, 2007 04:20 pmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan
It's always startling to read a wikipedia page and see it's switched seamlessly to being in the past tense the minute someone passes on.
Rest in Peace, Robert; we may not be burning our towels, but you wrote some books that I did get a lot of enjoyment out of, which I'm very grateful for.
OK, crunch time. Did you or did you not record the outline of the remainder of the wheel of time arc and the unanswered mysteries, to be opened in event of your death? I stopped reading a little while ago, intending to pick up if the series comes to a conclusion, because I do want to know what happens.
Now it's been solved or it never will be. If you winged it, and some mysteries weren't written with an answer, then I have no objection, but I'd like to know that. If not, bugger, I'll continue to leave the series where I left off.
It's always startling to read a wikipedia page and see it's switched seamlessly to being in the past tense the minute someone passes on.
Rest in Peace, Robert; we may not be burning our towels, but you wrote some books that I did get a lot of enjoyment out of, which I'm very grateful for.
OK, crunch time. Did you or did you not record the outline of the remainder of the wheel of time arc and the unanswered mysteries, to be opened in event of your death? I stopped reading a little while ago, intending to pick up if the series comes to a conclusion, because I do want to know what happens.
Now it's been solved or it never will be. If you winged it, and some mysteries weren't written with an answer, then I have no objection, but I'd like to know that. If not, bugger, I'll continue to leave the series where I left off.