The Dragon Reborn
The Dragon Reborn, part 3 of The Wheel of Time, is probably the last one in the series that I really enjoyed. After that I continued reading out of habit and because I wanted to know how RJ will knit it all together. The characters are almost through their initial metamorphosis, but not yet so much that the habits they adapt for the rest of the series have started to annoy me. Their stupidity never ceases to amaze me though.
In this book the weave is made obvious. The threads try desperately to run in separate directions, but they all end up in a single knot in the end. I have overlooked it before, maybe because they talk so much about it, but now it occurs to me that the storytelling reflects the weave. That's why we get to see so many seemingly unimportant threads appear and disappear later on. If they weren't there, the story would just be a braid or perhaps some sort of macramé.
Starting to listen to the fourth book was painful. Are the constant recaps of even the tiniest details perhaps meant to give me a feeling of the madness Rand has looming over him? I am certain they will drive me crazy in the end. And Nynaeve has started tugging her braid. I feel like braiding my hair and tugging it right back at her.
In this book the weave is made obvious. The threads try desperately to run in separate directions, but they all end up in a single knot in the end. I have overlooked it before, maybe because they talk so much about it, but now it occurs to me that the storytelling reflects the weave. That's why we get to see so many seemingly unimportant threads appear and disappear later on. If they weren't there, the story would just be a braid or perhaps some sort of macramé.
Starting to listen to the fourth book was painful. Are the constant recaps of even the tiniest details perhaps meant to give me a feeling of the madness Rand has looming over him? I am certain they will drive me crazy in the end. And Nynaeve has started tugging her braid. I feel like braiding my hair and tugging it right back at her.