Wheel of Time, any good? if so can you tell me the order they are in.

[ September 11, 2002, 11:52: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

http://www.sorcerers.net/Books/index_jordan.htm

just one word: nope!

to be more precise: after book 3 it dawned to mr Jordan that he could make money out of this so instead of writing a 5 book serie he now writes a serie consisting of about 30 titles

I kinda doubt he'll live long enough to write 30 of them, and that he'd be able to stretch it that much. I'd say 15, tops.

[ September 20, 2002, 09:46: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

Ugh. I've only read Eye of the World, which is the first book, and it forever turned me off to Robert Jordan. Now, some authors can rip off Tolkien and add some good stuff of their own. Brooks comes to mind in the Sword of Shannara. But RJ cannot. His characters are boring as hell, so is his writing, and the plot barely moves. Last Lord of the Seven Towers? Corny. Aes Sedai? Crap. Rand and his pals along with their female counter-parts are incredibly annoying and/or just not interesting. And you're telling me there's 9 more books filled with this junk? Ugh.

That's what I feel. But obviously there's a big fanbase, so maybe there's some good quality to it. I wouldn't know, and frankly nothing in Eye of the World compels me to.

Read it don't like it. Particularly those crappy Taoist symbolism, really lame sybolism. Much worse than EVA's Christian symbolism :rolleyes:

I've read the 8 first books of WoT, and I consider it the best fantasy series I've ever read! And about the characters not evolving, you are partly right. If you compare Rand in the Eye of the world with Rand in Path of daggers there is quite a bit that's changed. However, the women don't evolve at all. In the eighth book they are the same annoying man-haters they were in the first book.

Besides from that there is really no other fault in the series.

Frostmage, I've also read the first eight volumes, and from being excellent with great potential, it's now on my list of things only to do in preference to dousing myself in petrol and setting myself alight, or jumping in front of trains.

Honestly, I really wouldn't touch it untill it was finished, since it apparently has no end (and boy does it need to find one).