From http://community.livejournal.com/aarondouglas/202548.html - Aaron Douglas (BSG's Chief Tyrol)
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Let's get off healthcare and talk some sci-fi (not syfy) stuff.
Has anyone read Robert Jordan? I am specifically talking about the Wheel of Time series. I am not sure if he has written anything else but I am on book 4 The Shadow rising right now.
I blame my friend Tony Gowell for getting me onto this series.
Has anyone finished it? Is it a satisfying ending? Please no spoilers but .... I am... well... deciding whether to keep going or to find something else.
I find it painfully descriptive at times, pedantic, boring and repetitive.
It does have its drama and fun but mostly I skip the 8 paragraphs dedicated to the smallish leaf hanging grumpily from the westernmost tree in the courtyard between the building of solid white stone surrounded by men in armored gear holding swords with ducks on the hilt and the large market of traders wearing purple laced sequin gowns appropriate for the ball they went to with their grandmothers in another age and time when the world seemed to turn more slowly and the wheel weaved as the wheel weaved around them and their trained dogs who were much larger than the dogs Egwene was used to in three rivers where.......ugh!!! shut up!!!
Tell me what happens!!!!!
Am I alone here? Is this not Lord of the Rings but not nearly as good?
Has anyone read Robert Jordan? I am specifically talking about the Wheel of Time series. I am not sure if he has written anything else but I am on book 4 The Shadow rising right now.
I blame my friend Tony Gowell for getting me onto this series.
Has anyone finished it? Is it a satisfying ending? Please no spoilers but .... I am... well... deciding whether to keep going or to find something else.
I find it painfully descriptive at times, pedantic, boring and repetitive.
It does have its drama and fun but mostly I skip the 8 paragraphs dedicated to the smallish leaf hanging grumpily from the westernmost tree in the courtyard between the building of solid white stone surrounded by men in armored gear holding swords with ducks on the hilt and the large market of traders wearing purple laced sequin gowns appropriate for the ball they went to with their grandmothers in another age and time when the world seemed to turn more slowly and the wheel weaved as the wheel weaved around them and their trained dogs who were much larger than the dogs Egwene was used to in three rivers where.......ugh!!! shut up!!!
Tell me what happens!!!!!
Am I alone here? Is this not Lord of the Rings but not nearly as good?
