Wheel of Time thread

Completely agree. Other than 'Moiraine sent me', I didn't really give her a second thought, so if you were suspicious then I'm impressed. Given the ability of Aes Sedai to bend the truth without breaking it, Verin being able to say something that seemed untrue ranked way down on my list of things to ponder while reading.

  The ta'veren were suspicious of all Aes Sedai, though, so you still get credit.

I got into The Sword of Truth because when I worked at CHapters, we couldn't keep it on the shelves. I was surprised how wildly popular it was....Then I saw the series on Youtube and really liked it. So I decided to buy the books. I could barely bring myself to finish the first book...It was so boring! And I just didn't like Terry Goodkind's writing style. I had already purchased all 11 books at the time of release....But for years he kept promising, book after book that "this will be the last one"....Then he'd up and write another: 'Nope, I lied. But I promise you-- THIS will be the last one...Forever." And on and on it went for several more years.....and I think, five more books. And then Goodkind finally got away from writing SoT for about 18 months....But now it looks like he's back at it again.

He just can't write anything else. But since I was so turned-off by the first book, I couldn't brig myself to read any more of the series even if I'd skipped over books. So they sat in my basement for over a decade. Till finally earlier this summer, I collected them all in a big cardboard box (along with movies I hated and didn't want, like THOR Ragnorok on BD) and put them all on the boulevard "FREE TO GOOD HOME....Please take them!" And they were gone within that day.

Good riddance.


The one author I have read since 2009 and read almost exclusively (99.98% of the time) is Brent Weeks.  I have read his Night Angel Trilogy at least 5x and cry every time.  I am currently reading the final installment of "The Lightbringer" called "The Burning White", but it is nearly 1000 pages.


I have heard of Robert Jordan and his "Wheel of Time" series, a classic and a trademark of the Fantasy genre, I have heard. I have known of it since it was first published in 1990...but it's so sprawling, I think I would struggle with it.   


I am intrigued by the mention of this new series.  I don't know anything about the books themselves, so I couldn't compare them....But I would be intersted in this series.

This is from last year but it just came up in my yt suggestions:


Cool video in general but also there an interesting little tidbit at the end, in which Brandon says that he read and gave some comments on the tv show script to the showrunners. That actually makes me feel more optimistic about the show already.

My enthusiasm took a dive around 1:07. Ok, not really, but if you're adapting a book or book series, you could at least get the pronunciation of a main characters name right.

Back in the days before Youtube - yes, the internet had videos before Youtube - Robert Jordan gave a series of interviews around the release of New Spring, a prequel novel to the main books, and in one, he gave examples of commonly mispronounced names.

It's Lan Man-Drah-Gore-inh.

Not Man-Drag-Or-In

Amazon is reported.

Yeah, you can forgive someone who's new to the series getting it wrong.  But after reading a few pages of the guy, it is clear there is nothing tame about him whatsoever.  And Robert Jordan took these books way too seriously to engage in wordplay like that.

I agree. I think I can put my finger on the problem too. At least from what I've seen in the teasers.

Everything looks like it's filmed on set.

Didn’t Rand dream exactly that?  I could’ve sworn one of the ta’veren dreamed about the burning of Edmonds Field…

On the Whitecloaks, I pity the fool cast as Galad.

New trailer. Looking pretty good IMO.



There is also a very interesting (maybe slightly spoilery) breakdown by one of the showrunners over at IGN.


All in all it's pretty good stuf I think. Really looking forward to Novermber 19th.

Friday the 19th can't come soon or fast enough! Both my parents and I are excited for Wheel of Time to start....

I am vaguely familiar with Robert Jordan's sprawling Fantasy narrative. I know that is very highly regarded since its first publication in the early 1990s, though I have never read any of the books.

I cant judge on how the series compares to the books or how true this series will hold to the source material, but just from what I have seen of the trailers it looks to be very well done with an attention to detail and a solid production value.

And just for fun, lest we forget; however this thing turns out...it could've been so, so much worse.