Have you stopped reading Wheel of Time?

[Diablo Rojo]

The first few were fantastic, but the series grew boring and I stopped at 6.

 

[Helldune]

I guess he said that he will continue writing untill they nail his coffin sut.

 

[^jordy^]

Yeah, I agree with DIABLO, the books should have been less, don't you think? Anyway, I had a loooong break between 6 and 7 so 7, 8, 9 and 10 were interesting enough I haven't started 11 yet. Lets hope that he'll soon finish the series and WoT will not become a modern version of The bold and the beautiful...

 

[pixter]

I put the series down a few years ago around book 5 or 6, I really don't remember. However, it's NOT because I wasn't enjoying the series, it's because my memory sucks and I was getting tired of reading the encyclopedia entries in the back every time I started a new book. My current plan is to wait until Mr Jordan finishes the series (which I guess is supposed to be the next book) and then I will start over at book one. That way, by the time I make it to the last book, it will be in paperback and save me a little money, too.
Here's to hoping his treatments at the Mayo Clinic go well.

 

[perrin]

any news on the next book? I like to know if is coming this krismas please.

 

[Werthead]

Not a chance. Christmas 2008 at the earliest, but likely to be 2009 now due to the delays caused by Robert Jordan's illness.

Book 12 will be called A Memory of Light and will be the final book in the series.

 

[Nesacat]

The first few were interesting and then they started to drag. The gap between books is also too long so I stopped at the 5th or the 6th and decided to wait until he had completed to series to read it. The gap between the books was long enough that I'd have forgotten quite a bit that had gone before and would have to go back and forth between books.

Am glad to know book 12 will be the last.

 

[^jordy^]

Oh, finally!!!!

 

[flummoxed]

i, myself, refer to the promised 12th book as "the book that will never be".

has anyone ever started reading the "casca" series of novels by barry sadler? yeah, the same guy that wrote and sang the tune "the green berets" back in the 1960s. i have about 15 of them and found out sadler died before finishing the tale of the centurion that stuck his spear into Christ's heart as he hung on the cross. he was told he would meet him at the second coming but would remain a mercenary until that time. these are books that are usually found in second hand book stores and aren't big as far as "word of mouth" as they are some years old. after sadler died some other guy picked it up and continued. i haven't looked but i hope its over. i quit reading at #15.

 

[Faceless Woman]

Oh it will be, all right, but whether it will be the last one remains to be seen.
Even the people on the actual WoT forum are rooting for it to end already. Take a hint, Jordan.

 

[damadiel]

Until I read this forum, I hadnt realized Robert Jordan, was a money hungry chauvinistic pig, who lost everyone in counting the buttons on women's dresses.
While I would have to admit, I was tempted many times to skip ahead to what I wanted to read about, and was upset that Faile's imprisionment, as Gai Shan, went on entirely too long. I waited a whole book for a followup to the battles of the Two Rivers. I found most of Mr. Jordan's explanations fascinating. The world of the Wheel of Time is definitely rich in history and culture. And I find myself wishing he would explain a few things in more detail. Ji e toh for instance, the honor system for the Aiel.
I find Rand, Matt and Perrin the most interesting for sure, but I also find Egwene, and Min fascinating also. And the fact that Rand has three women in love with him, I found a bit hard to swallow at first, was handled well with their bonding. And was a bit easier to swallow after a few books passed.
While I have read 12 pages of people who have stopped reading the Wheel of Time, I would like to point out that I have read everyone and have no intention of stopping till the end, and I hope Mr. Jordan or someone (with his permission) takes up the torch and fills in all the gaps.
You could also go into the parts of the story that he doesnt, Shara for instance he touched on, but it doesnt seem he will incorporate into the Last Battle, since he has so much to do to unite everyone else to get them there in time to fight with the wolves, which are already committed to the fight.
I know I am rambling in Jordanistic style also, and I really wouldnt mind if you skipped to the next post either.
I would however like to agree with everyone else who is grumbling about the length of time between books. I am reduced to reading posts about WoT on message boards to try to get my fix.
I started reading the series, a few months ago, thinking it was complete. And did a marathon run from the Eye of the World, to Knife of Dreams in six weeks. Imagine my disappointment to find the series isnt complete and I would have to join everyone else waiting for the next book.
I dont believe Jordan will finish the series in the next book, I cant remember which book Knife of Dream was sorry. Eleven or Twelve? But I dont care how many books it takes to complete the Saga. As long as I get a sense of completion at the end.
I know I am jumping around here, but I dont think Jordan is a chauvinist. I think he Loves women dearly. He thinks they are controlling but like a Two Rivers man, he can only be pushed so far, before he digs in his heals and refuses to cooperate.
I know there are alot of errors in my sentence structure and regret that I dont have an editor to help me out.

 

[Talysia]

As a recent newcomer to the world of the Wheel, I'm still reading the WoT books. I can see why people think that they go on for far too long, and I do wish that they would get to the point sometimes, but I agree - as long as they come to a satisfying conclusion, then I don't have a problem with it.
Maybe I'm fortunate in two ways - as I'm so new to the series, there isn't much of a gap between book releases for me, so I've not been kept waiting. Secondly, I'm borrowing the books from my sister, two at a time. By the time I've finished, hopefully the last book will have been released, and I can finish the series.

 

[Rosemary]

As a recent newcomer to the world of the Wheel, I'm still reading the WoT books. I can see why people think that they go on for far too long, and I do wish that they would get to the point sometimes, but I agree - as long as they come to a satisfying conclusion, then I don't have a problem with it.
Maybe I'm fortunate in two ways - as I'm so new to the series, there isn't much of a gap between book releases for me, so I've not been kept waiting. Secondly, I'm borrowing the books from my sister, two at a time. By the time I've finished, hopefully the last book will have been released, and I can finish the series.

I've been reading it right from the beginning Talysia, then re-reading the last volume before the next one is published. I am still looking forward to the next publication...

 

[Jason_Taverner]

me too I really enjoyed book 11

 

[the_faery_queen]

I dont think Jordan is a chauvinist. I think he Loves women dearly. He thinks they are controlling but like a Two Rivers man, he can only be pushed so far, before he digs in his heals and refuses to cooperate.

for me, it's not that he thinks ALL women are controlling, whch is a very unfair , unrealistic and unflattering way to think of women (jordan i mean) but the way that he treats them. always being spanked, always being naked, always obsessed with clothes. i don't think he is chauvinist, i think he has an old fashioned view of women, and is sexist because of that. not because of a deliberate, women are less than men, type attitude. it's more an attitude from another time.

i mean, he treats them, writes about them, as though they're women from an enid blyton book, one of her boarding school ones. where they all get together and spank each other with hairbrushes and have midnight feasts and gossip about guys and think that men are idiots, in a patronising, old fashioned perspective that just isn't accuarte. i think most people see this as sexist because it is an old fashioned view, not a fair representation of women of today, and we're reading it AS women of today (or men if you're a man) and i, personally, think it IS part of that old fashioned sexist view society used to have about women, that we are nags and obsessed with clothes. and it's not true. that's why people find jordan sexist, because he has an old fashioned view of women, and potrays them in an old fashioned way. now that might be deliberate, perhaps he wants to bring out a 1950s type culture, but as every single woman is exactly the same, that is kinda hard to believe, to be honest. i just think he's writing from another time, from the past, and is out of touch, and that's why his stuff seems a little sexist. it's not deliberate. i don't think he hates women at all, i just don't think he sees us as people in our own right, as individuals. i think he sees us as a gender, and that we behave the way that perhaps his mother did.

 

[Commonmind]

Until I read this forum, I hadnt realized Robert Jordan, was a money hungry chauvinistic pig, who lost everyone in counting the buttons on women's dresses.
While I would have to admit, I was tempted many times to skip ahead to what I wanted to read about, and was upset that Faile's imprisionment, as Gai Shan, went on entirely too long. I waited a whole book for a followup to the battles of the Two Rivers. I found most of Mr. Jordan's explanations fascinating. The world of the Wheel of Time is definitely rich in history and culture. And I find myself wishing he would explain a few things in more detail. Ji e toh for instance, the honor system for the Aiel.
I find Rand, Matt and Perrin the most interesting for sure, but I also find Egwene, and Min fascinating also. And the fact that Rand has three women in love with him, I found a bit hard to swallow at first, was handled well with their bonding. And was a bit easier to swallow after a few books passed.
While I have read 12 pages of people who have stopped reading the Wheel of Time, I would like to point out that I have read everyone and have no intention of stopping till the end, and I hope Mr. Jordan or someone (with his permission) takes up the torch and fills in all the gaps.
You could also go into the parts of the story that he doesnt, Shara for instance he touched on, but it doesnt seem he will incorporate into the Last Battle, since he has so much to do to unite everyone else to get them there in time to fight with the wolves, which are already committed to the fight.
I know I am rambling in Jordanistic style also, and I really wouldnt mind if you skipped to the next post either.
I would however like to agree with everyone else who is grumbling about the length of time between books. I am reduced to reading posts about WoT on message boards to try to get my fix.
I started reading the series, a few months ago, thinking it was complete. And did a marathon run from the Eye of the World, to Knife of Dreams in six weeks. Imagine my disappointment to find the series isnt complete and I would have to join everyone else waiting for the next book.
I dont believe Jordan will finish the series in the next book, I cant remember which book Knife of Dream was sorry. Eleven or Twelve? But I dont care how many books it takes to complete the Saga. As long as I get a sense of completion at the end.
I know I am jumping around here, but I dont think Jordan is a chauvinist. I think he Loves women dearly. He thinks they are controlling but like a Two Rivers man, he can only be pushed so far, before he digs in his heals and refuses to cooperate.
I know there are alot of errors in my sentence structure and regret that I dont have an editor to help me out.

Opinions on the series are welcome if vague, please don't give any plot points or progression away in the discussion. For readers like myself who are still interested in finishing the series, this can be quite frustrating. Having a two-hour movie ruined for you is one thing, having books that weigh in at almost a thousand pages is quite another monster altogether.

 

[that old guy]

I bailed after the fifth or sixth book. Unfortunately my wife is still reading them so we own them all.

 

[Seanie]

Robert Jordan: Maybe not in my top 5 authors, but WoT is definitely in my top 5 series’… I understand peoples frustrations with how long the series is how much it drags out, but I hav 2 say I feel kinda sorry for those that cant stick it out… I’v re-read the series a few of times, I think it was up to book 8 when I was first given the books, so I read them all, but by the time the next one was out I’d read so many other books that I re-read the whole series to re-acquaint myself & fell in love all over again, same thing happened for the next 2 books, so I’v fallen in luv with the series 4 times now & plan to again once the final book comes out

Like I said I understand the frustration of having to wait so long between books & I know it’s a bit over-written, but the world he’s created makes me want to live there & the story is so intriguing & most of the characters are so likeable, that I think I’d keep reading even if he stretched it to 20 books (although I really hope he doesn’t!).

 

[Talysia]

I'm enjoying reading the series, but now that I've reached halfway (reading the books off and on amongst other titles) I feel like I need break from them. I'll go back to them in a while, but right now I need a breather.

 

[Seami]

It's good story, I mean good idea.
I admit it's really interesting but it's unfinished story that seems never be ending... it's going to be a soap opera and I think that's really sad, becsuse this idea, idea of Wheel of Time has impressed me.