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The back half of the WoT books just annoyed me because the main characters basically stopped interacting with each other at all despite almost all of them being able to teleport.
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Wheel of Time Reading Order - Books 1 - 6: Read the book, it's awesome! Books 7 - 10: Read a summary online, depending on how deep you want to go either just wikipeida it or TOR did a chapter by chapter reread with summary and thoughts, its a good read in itself Books 11+: Read the book
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omnibobb posted:Wheel of Time Reading Order - I'd say, read book 7 and if a particular storyline bores you, read the summary. Then decide if you want to read the summaries for 8-10. The TOR reread is pretty good, but contains spoilers for the first 11 books, so it might not be a good idea to use it if you hate getting spoiled.
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There's a few plot points that are extremely exciting to read the first time through in WOT books 7-10: most notably the last chapter of book 9. But yeah, I have read through the series multiple times, largely because I'd usually do so before another book came out, and there's enough character POVs I skip in those books that I'm reading maybe 30%. Elayne is the goddamn worst, followed closely by whiny Siuan. I don't have as much hatred for post-two-rivers Perrin/Faile chapters as most, but I definitely skip the majority of them.
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Book 9's climax is one of the best in the series. Books 7 and 8 likewise have important and exciting chapters. All three thus have something in the way of redeeming features. Book 10, though, can just gently caress right off. Nothing of value happens in the book. Book 11 is good, and Sanderson's final three are also fine.
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Evil Fluffy posted:How hard would the WoT books be to get in to? I never got around to reading them and at this point I'm worried they haven't aged well. Fair warning, they are really weird about gender stuff. I found them to be kind of sexist, though some folks pointed out that for their time they were actually quite progressive. Is book 7 the ebou dar stuff? That's how far I got before getting sidetracked with other reading, still wanting to force myself to get back to it sometime though.
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ConfusedUs posted:Book 9's climax is one of the best in the series. Books 7 and 8 likewise have important and exciting chapters. All three thus have something in the way of redeeming features. Does book 10 have Mat in it? If so that one was ok imo
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RC Cola posted:Does book 10 have Mat in it? If so that one was ok imo Not in any good way. Every thing about book 10 is awful.
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Rumda posted:Not in any good way. Agreed. That book is everyone sitting around thinking about doing stuff and never getting around to actually doing it.
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Pash posted:Agreed. That book is everyone sitting around thinking about doing stuff and never getting around to actually doing it. The worst part was that was were o jumped on so I had the standard oh god I have to wait for the next book syndrome from jumping into an established but unfinished series as well.
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beathhail posted:Well amazon just 'no longer available' d my oathbringer pre-order and offered it to me again with a 17th Nov release for £25 which I'm fairly certain is a few quid more than the old price. Dig up the original email and raise some hell about it.
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Crossroads of Twilight is book 10, right? The one where it can basically be summed up as "This is what almost literally ever minor character so far was doing during or immediately after the climax of book 9. Also you get to see each of the main characters for like 2 pages." ?
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bewilderment posted:Crossroads of Twilight is book 10, right? That's the one. It's basically a novel-length prologue to book 11. It ends just when things start threatening to maybe actually happen soon.
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Problematic Pigeon posted:That's the one. It's basically a novel-length prologue to book 11. It ends just when things start threatening to maybe actually happen soon. Ya, my memory of it was the book was supposed to be about people making big decisions, but all those decisions boiled down to getting off their asses for the next book. Edit: Note that after reading book 10 book 11 looks really really good in comparison.
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I started reading the summaries on book 10, and it just burned me out. Never read aMoL. Don't know the ending either. Maybe I should reread them?
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You should because the last books are actually good, I really liked A Memory of Light, especially the reveal after everything is done.
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Just finished a reread of stormlight 1/2 and edgedander. Gotta say they hold up well on a retread and lots of trivial seeming things are pretty important. I really liked lift in edgedancer, I like how she struggles with growing up and caring and what it means. Shallan is much better in book two than in book one and I really want to see what happens with her moving forward.
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If you can't wait for Oathbringer, Tor will once again post sample chapters. A whole lot of them: https://twitter.com/PeterAhlstrom/status/893510460011577345 Only about two weeks to go, I approve!
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Torrannor posted:If you can't wait for Oathbringer, Tor will once again post sample chapters. A whole lot of them: The sample chapters are longer than some entire books. I approve. Need all of Oathbringer right now. And book 4 of Wax and Wayne.
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Evil Fluffy posted:The sample chapters are longer than some entire books. I approve. Best to get Nightblood (Warbreaker 2) as well!
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I will be skipping the sample chapters in preference for the full book but it's pretty amazing they're going to release 33 chapters
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What should I read next in the Cosmere? I've read: Mistborn Trilogy The Way of Kings Words of Radiance Elantris The Emperor's Soul I have the short story collection so should I just keep reading that or should I go somewhere else now?
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Second mistborn set. Some of the short stories are set after the most recent book
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insider posted:What should I read next in the Cosmere?
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Torrannor posted:Best to get Nightblood (Warbreaker 2) as well! That's like, not even in his moderate term plans though? I thought that was regulated to the early 2020s if we're lucky, maybe around the time Stormlight 4 would happen?
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insider posted:What should I read next in the Cosmere? 2nding wax & wayne mistborns then the cosmere collection. Edgedancer is surprisingly good considering how much people hated Lift. Perfect State is good and it wasn't included in the cosmere collection.
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Perfect State isn't a cosmere book, much like the Rithmatist and Reckoners series.
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insider posted:What should I read next in the Cosmere? Definitely read Warbreaker just so you can understand the reference at the end of Words of Radiance.
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Evil Fluffy posted:That's like, not even in his moderate term plans though? I thought that was regulated to the early 2020s if we're lucky, maybe around the time Stormlight 4 would happen? Yeah, it's a long way off according to the 2016 State of Sanderson. But I'm really curious how this continues, and why certain things end up on Roshar.
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MildShow posted:Definitely read Warbreaker just so you can understand the reference at the end of Words of Radiance. And Warbreaker is available for free on his website so there's no reason not to read it.
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Starting August 22nd, Tor is gonna be releasing the first 32 chapters of Oathbringer in weekly installments on their website. http://www.tor.com/2017/08/15/brandon-sanderson-oathbringer-serialization-announcement
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Theowulv posted:Starting August 22nd, Tor is gonna be releasing the first 32 chapters of Oathbringer in weekly installments on their website. I guess I need to unbookmark this thread for 32 weeks.
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ConfusedUs posted:I guess I need to unbookmark this thread for 32 weeks. I don't know about you but 32 weeks from now I'll have read Oathbringer a few 
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ConfusedUs posted:I guess I need to unbookmark this thread for 32 weeks. 3 chapters a week.
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Impossible, 32 isn't divisible by 3. Checkmate. 
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Cicero posted:Impossible, 32 isn't divisible by 3. Checkmate. Sanderson will have written and published another chapter before the time is up just to satisfy our OCD.
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mewse posted:I will be skipping the sample chapters in preference for the full book but it's pretty amazing they're going to release 33 chapters I got the 2nd book in physical form and it's loving huge (think its pretty cool), this one is even longer based on the page count.
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His Divine Shadow posted:I got the 2nd book in physical form and it's loving huge (think its pretty cool), this one is even longer based on the page count. I think the storm light bricks on my bookshelf actually deter my friends from starting to read Sanderson 
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eReaders for president
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