Some thoughts on The Wheel of Time

[saithkar]

It was in late January 2000 that I embarked upon Robert Jordan's The Eye of the World - a millennial beginning to a millennial epic - and I finished the concluding volume, A Memory of Light, this February. This means that the 14 books have taken me almost exactly 15 years to read, literally half a lifetime in my case, and therefore I believe some

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[saithkar]

Haha, yeah, if they ever bring out the 7 book version read that, there's probably enough material in there for 7 solid, adventure packed books, but given that there's 14 shows you just how much wasted time there is (at least the way I see it, others disagree). That "opening and closing doors" is a good description of the idea. I too am normally opposed to long TV series, I figure most stories can either be told in a 2 hour movie or they'd be better off as a book. Apart from Game of Thrones (which doesn't really count since I first read the series in 2000) the only other serial TV show I've watched lately was True Detective which was, despite its flaws, excellent viewing (and only 8 episodes which felt about right).

If you're looking for literature recommendations I'm always happy to help out. I know horror is a favourite genre of yours, but if you can name any other's I'll try and suggest a few titles based on my limited experience. Incidentally I too find myself as being somewhat of a, to use Nabokov's phrase "literary homosexual" in that almost all of the authors I feel most strongly about are male. I even read Gore Vidal's famous homosexual novel "The City and the Pillar" which was not the sort of thing I'd thought I'd ever read and found it reasonably enjoyable, mostly for the quality of Vidal's prose and the sense of the authentic experience the novel is infused with.