Martin and Jordan?

[sophocles]

I have to say I found Jordan to be fine until:

Nynaeve tugged her braid the hundredth time.
Egwene and Elaine? drank tea/ changed their clothes the billionth time.
An entire book was written about people looking up and staring off into the distance.

Utter crap.

Very Succinct Arya. Well Done

 

[KayKay]

Hi Guys - Totally new here on the forum , even first post ever ;-)
Just wanted to let you know that after reading this thread I decided to go back and reread Jordan. Up to book 7 now and actually lovin' it. Maybe it's youth sentiment? But now I'm totally screwed because I know that after Book 7 the whole thing goes to hell. Was pleased to hear that some of you are saying that book 11 is showing improvement... Maybe I'll buy the book then after all - if I can get trough the next 3 ;-)

So that's it - wauw first post ever - very impressed with myself...

 

[Winters_Sorrow]

Hello KayKay & welcome.
There's an Introductions thread here if you want to really get noticed.

 

[Dreaming of Eagles]

I had Jordan highly recommended to me and had obviously heard the name before so I spent my ten dollars, bought the first book and was completely and utterly bored.

I know Jordan is a popular author with a great many books and fans and to be fair I didn't finish or read the subsequent novels so maybe they were great, I don't know. However I found that NOTHING happened during the first half of the first novel. So, for me, seeing this complaint that Martin's fourth is like Jordan's fifth isn't something that I consider to be correct because Martin started his book with action and instantly hooked me.

Now I enjoyed Martin's third the best but I still found the fourth interesting and there were advances in plot. It's not my favourite novel but I still found it very well-written. With Jordan I didn't care about the characters and I didn't see any plot development. I was very very sick of this hair braiding and circle stuff by the time I finally packed it in.

So personally I greatly disagree with this comment and generally there are a few lesser chapters in a series. I mean the second Indy movie is the weakest link. I liked A Feast For Crows and I'm looking forward to the next one.

 

[Somebloke]

I struggled through Jordan's first book. I was vaguely interested by his 4th and by the 11th considered his works to be entertaining in a TV-soap kind of way. With Martin, on the other hand, I am rapt.

PS- apparently Jordan's next book will be his last. I would just love to know how on Earth he intends to wrap everything up.

 

[AryaUnderfoot]

PS- apparently Jordan's next book will be his last. I would just love to know how on Earth he intends to wrap everything up.

I predict an easy ending: Nynaeve will go bald and braidless, they'll run out of tea and their clothes will no longer fit. What else would there be to write about?

 

[Aegon the Unworthy]

Ya know....sometimes, in the haze of excrucating pain of the Bowl of Winds or whatever that one was I forget how much I enjoyed the Wheel of Time in the early books. The I realize how much I enjoy Martin now.....

I will now go light myself on fire.

 

[Weasel Soup]

Dearest Arya,

you forgot after nynaeve's baldness, rand suddenly develops a condition that no longer allows him to blink.

I must admit i have been laughing for days about your last post on this thread.

WS

 

[Trey Greyjoy]

Dearest Arya,

you forgot after nynaeve's baldness,

I read this too quickly and thought you were talking about Arya's wolf Nymeria.

 

[AryaUnderfoot]

I read this too quickly and thought you were talking about Arya's wolf Nymeria.

Haha. Didn't realize Nymeria had a case of mange.

 

[Boaz]

Nynaeve and Rand are still alive after 1,452 books? Amazing!