The Wheel Of Time
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Topic: The Wheel Of Time
Posted By: steppenfloyd
Subject: The Wheel Of Time
Date Posted: January 09 2011 at 19:47
| I'm not sure if there are any WoT fans on progarchives but I made this poll anyways. I've only read the first two but I really liked them and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series. I realize that A Memory Of Light hasn't been published yet but I put it on the poll for future poll takers. |
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 01:47
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I have not read the last one since it is not released yet not have I read New Spring but everyone else yes
the first four or five are great the rest are good the last three from Knifes of Dream - the Gathering Storm - Towers of Midnigt is also great
Winters Hearth and Crossroads of Twillight have both its shallow grounds but also verry high peaks, specially the cleansing of Saidin is epic -------------  
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 01:49
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I see so many books in a series and that's when I decide I nwill never read it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 01:52
This is pretty much my thought. You have to be a genius to write that many words, and have them be interesting, and there are very few geniuses. ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 01:55
I really should get back into the habit of reading regularly anyway. But this would be far too ambitious.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 02:06
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Maybe you could try Mark Twain's autobiography? You guys like Mark Twain over there, right? ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 02:17
Funnily enough I had been thinking about that. Held off from publishing for 100 years at his request, right?
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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 02:43
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Yeah, although he also didn't want the second part published for another 25 years and the third for another 50. Why does dead Mark Twain have to be such an attention whore? I don't know whether or not they're going to follow through with spacing it out like that, since I am pretty sure it is out of copyright so nobody could stop them from publishing the rest of it right now, but I was joking, at 760 pages it's a bit weighty. But it turns out that I shouldn't have been joking because I didn't realize 760 is less than the average length of a Wheel of Time book, good lord. Why do these fantasy authors always write so much? Don't they have an editor or something? ------------- if you own a sodastream i hate you |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 04:00
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Big controversy over Mark Twain right now. People want to teach Huckleberry Finn in school but the fact that the word "n****r" is used 219 times makes it a mite touchy for many high school classes. So they're reprinting it with all instances of the world "n****r" changed to slave.
I think it's pretty awful that we're having to sanitise history for students and that people can't understand that Twain was a racial equality activist, that the black character Jim is a progressively positive black character (he's uneducated which some people have said is racist, but come on, the character's an unschooled field worker from the 19th century) and was simply having his characters use the word they would have used. One day we'll be telling them that Hitler just gave all the Jews noogies because we wouldn't want to upset the poor dears.
I mean I suppose the way Twain wrote Jim's dialogue "I kin stan no mos" = "I can't stand no more" and so on will also be viewed as racist and Jim will speak in the style of Stephen Fry in the new edition.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 04:05
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I hate all sanitising of history and how people actually spoke in all older novels. So I absolutely agree with you. It's actually trying to change the facts. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 05:57
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my username says it all
and my sig confirms it Im a WOT fanboy -------------
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 05:58
Your username and sig say nothing to me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: January 10 2011 at 08:09
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aginor" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aginor
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