Just jotting down a few things I was thinking about in the car on my way to drop a T-Day plate off to a friend.

So, WoT has several analogues to LotR, but it's not a one for one copy, and again, though WoT isn't nearly as meta GoT is the series does very deliberately explore the nature of evil and what drove several people to serve the Dark One. Of ( Read more... )

I'm starting to dive back into this series before the TV show will inevitably fuck up huge parts of it. I started reading this series way back in 1990, and, flaws and all, I love it.

But one of the things I don't think they got wrong was casting a multi-ethnic group of actors. In fact, I think it's a great way of picking up and moving forward ( Read more... )