06-15-2003, 01:21 PM
I have tried to read book eight, 3 times. I just CAN'T get into it, and I have put my finger on why.
It's the women.
Now my wife seems enjoys the dialogue in the books but for me the original four books about the 3 boys has changed into one long tedious cat fight between the women in the series. WHOLE chapters devoted to dialogue that is totally pointless and that is essentially the women in the books babbling on about inconsequential things and arguing constantly.
If that's what i wanted to experience I'd watch day time TV. Where is Rand, Perrin, and Mat??? I mean hell it's not as if the story is about them or anything... The chapters in which they feature, I love. Except when the women manage to screw it up.
My most favorite parts of the story, were Perrin learning about his nature, Mat when he is freed of the Dagger in the white tower and then heads off, and his Band of the Red Hand when he first went into battle and picked up all those troops. Unfortunately Rand is pretty much surrounded by women all the time and any chaper he is in degenerates into the women telling him off.
Seriously I feel at times as though either Robert Jordens wife or mother is standing over him with a wooden spoon berating him like a 5 year old as he writes, and it just ends up being translated into his writing.
What is painfully obvious is that it's now all money driven. We have Roleplaying and PC games based on a world that hasn't even seen an ending to it's main story. We have a WoT atlas to it's lands and Creatures, without it being fully explored. I guess we'll see part one of the WoT Movie Trilogy before Jorden finishes the damn story at this rate..
Bitterly disappointing.
It's the women.
Now my wife seems enjoys the dialogue in the books but for me the original four books about the 3 boys has changed into one long tedious cat fight between the women in the series. WHOLE chapters devoted to dialogue that is totally pointless and that is essentially the women in the books babbling on about inconsequential things and arguing constantly.
If that's what i wanted to experience I'd watch day time TV. Where is Rand, Perrin, and Mat??? I mean hell it's not as if the story is about them or anything... The chapters in which they feature, I love. Except when the women manage to screw it up.
My most favorite parts of the story, were Perrin learning about his nature, Mat when he is freed of the Dagger in the white tower and then heads off, and his Band of the Red Hand when he first went into battle and picked up all those troops. Unfortunately Rand is pretty much surrounded by women all the time and any chaper he is in degenerates into the women telling him off.
Seriously I feel at times as though either Robert Jordens wife or mother is standing over him with a wooden spoon berating him like a 5 year old as he writes, and it just ends up being translated into his writing.
What is painfully obvious is that it's now all money driven. We have Roleplaying and PC games based on a world that hasn't even seen an ending to it's main story. We have a WoT atlas to it's lands and Creatures, without it being fully explored. I guess we'll see part one of the WoT Movie Trilogy before Jorden finishes the damn story at this rate..
Bitterly disappointing.