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Aegnor
PostPosted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 11:14 pm 
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So very early this morning Brandon Sanderson tweeted that he has completed the final draft of A Memory of Light, the final book in the Wheel of Time series (now it goes to copy editing). He said it is 360k words (last book was 335k). It is being released in January.
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At least he got it done before he died...

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15 years ago I would have been thrilled. Not so much anymore.
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Well, I'm thrilled. I think it is going to be awesome. I like what Sanderson's done with the last two books and I'm looking forward to the final chapter.
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Sooo...how many books in total is it?

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I'm looking forward to finally reading the whole series.

For a while, each time a new book would come out, my wife and I would re-read the entire books from the start through whatever one had just came out. Somewhere between book 6 and 8 that became beyond silly. I basically stopped reading them at that point, waiting for the series to be done.
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I also like what Sanderson has done with it. Characters that I hated having to read about become much more interesting and the female characters actually seem like different people instead of the same character with a different name.

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Raell wrote:
Sooo...how many books in total is it?


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And I stopped after 7...

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I guess I'll have to start the series pretty soon then. I've always said for over 2 decades that I'll read them when they're finished.

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I couldn't make it past like book 4 as it all seemed like the same thing over and over...
Mat was a fun character but he wasn't the main character so he didn't have as much page time.
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Mat is a main character. There are several primary characters, but the three main characters are Rand, Mat, and Perrin. They do each have a book that they don't appear in (sort of... Rand is absent in most of book 3, but comes in at the end).
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Especially given the number of books, Mat and Perrin both see a great deal of page time. Egwene can probably be included as a main character as well, given the circumstances of most of the series.

Brandon Sanderson wrote a blog post on his thoughts about finishing up the series. It can be found here. Though we've gotten used to the idea by now, it's sort of amazing how this all went down after Robert Jordan died. Though the Sanderson books definitely feel like Sanderson and not an exact replica of Jordan's writing, it really worked out a lot better than I think most of us expected. Especially considering how new Sanderson was to top-list fantasy novels. Fans will get their ending (the last scene nearly all Jordan's words, as per that blog post) and get it without much in the way of negatives, which seemed very doubtful towards the end of Jordan's illness and certainly upon his death.

Now. The remaining wait shouldn't be too bad. Many are old pros at it anyway. :p I only did a complete (at the time) re-read of the series once or twice since I started them back about 15 years ago. Maybe it's time to do one more.
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Finally! Time to re-read the series again in preparation.

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There's no way I could reread the last 6 or 7 books Jordan wrote, they were uniformly awful...
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So I picked up my copy this morning. Of course work is extremely busy right now. That always seems to happen around release time.
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Timmit wrote:
There's no way I could reread the last 6 or 7 books Jordan wrote, they were uniformly awful...

There were enough Crowning Moments of Awesome sprinkled throughout Winter's Heart, Crossroads of Twilight, and Knife of Dreams that I can't agree with this entirely. Lord of Chaos through Path of Daggers was pretty much a slog-fest, though.

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I thought Lord of Chaos was awesome. It had a slow build-up (probably too slow), but the payoff was incredible. One of the best endings in the series.

Path of Daggers I can understand what he was doing, and I appreciate it, it wasn't the most fun book to read though.

Crossroads of Twilight is a terrible book.

Knife of Dreams was awesome.
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Read through chapter 6 so far and it is awesome.

(not exactly a spoiler as it is an "expected" scene)

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The meeting between Moiraine and Rand, after so long, was better than I could have hoped for.
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So I'm starting a chapter entitled "The Last Battle". Everything in the past 13 books has been building towards this one chapter. And I'm about to read it.
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So I finished the book today. Overall an awesome book. Definitely the best book in the series IMO. That isn't to say that there weren't a few flaws. There were some things that had been built up, but the payoff was a bit cheap. But on the other hand there were major payoffs to things that have been setup since book 1.

The structure of the book was pretty inventive and worked very well. I'll put what I mean by that in spoilers. It isn't exactly a spoiler, as it should be stuff you know will be happening (i.e. spoiler alert: Frodo takes the ring to Mount Doom).

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At Shayol Ghul, where Rand has his big face off against the Dark One, time is dilated. What this means is that the closer you are to Shayol Ghul, the slower time moves. This allows events that play out over multiple days to occur concurrently with the "main event" which occurs over a matter of hours. It works out very well structurally, and makes perfect sense within the story itself.


If you don't want to read the books again to get caught up, I suggest you go to tor.com and read Leigh Butler's extensive reread/analysis of the series. In fact, I suggest you skip Crossroads of Twilight and just read her reread of it, even if you haven't read it before.

So yeah, definite thumbs up, with a very satisfying conclusion to the series.
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Good to hear. My copy got sent to the stinking post office and my schedule won't permit me to go get it until Friday. I'm pretty pissed, considering I paid extra shipping.

Note to self: Never ship via USPS.

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Got it from Amazon on Tuesday, started reading it Wednesday morning, finished it Thursday night.

After 22 years and some number of months, I'm done with this series. I will never speak of it again.

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Aegnor wrote:
So yeah, definite thumbs up, with a very satisfying conclusion to the series.

I've had a night to sleep on the ending and I'm starting to feel a little more disappointed.

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Mainly, I really wanted to see some more reunion and celebration at the end. Seemed like Mat and Perrin had been apart for quite a long time and when they do finally get within 10 feet of each other, it's over in the span of a paragraph pretty much. We suffered with them through 14 books(?) and I was hoping to celebrate with them a little bit. I wanted to see Olver finally find a steady home. Did Elayne ever meet up with her mother? I can't even remember.

Instead we get Loial wandering around like a tool trying to get first-hand accounts. We get more Aes Sedai political plotting. We get a funeral with little character interaction and three women keeping a secret we probably all saw coming anyway.

I really liked how Rand changed and his outlook at the very end. I was pretty tired during the last couple chapters, so I didn't quite catch how his consciousness was transferred into Moridin/Elan/Ishamael.

I found the defeat of most of the Forsaken rather disappointing, except perhaps for M'Hael.

It really woulda been sweet if he actually did write a section on Tuon, may she live forever, meeting Hawkwing.

Oh, and way to totally gimp Logain.

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