Active Users:710 Time:30/03/2026 12:36:26 AM
You are certainly not the only one... Cal Trask Send a noteboard - 12/09/2009 06:27:09 PM
but a lot of people didn't like the book, myself included.

It was slow and repetitive: 'My Faile, oh my Faile' Wah! Wah! Wah!

Mat: I don't like Tuon, but there is something about her. I will honour my pledge...

Tuon: Come over here Toy!

And Repeat

Elayne, if she was in it - I only read it once - probably spent most of her time going on about being pregnant and deciding what dress to wear.

And there must have been lots of sniffing and adjusting of shawls, and other tedious descriptive passges too.

But I think my main gripe was the lack of overall story development - yes, people highlight the political aspects and the pause for breath prior to the final four books and TG. I felt as though I had read most of what it contained in the previous two or three books.

But the most damming of criticisms - of sorts - came from RJ himself. He admitted it was a mistake to set a five hundred plus page book over one day. And given his time again, he would have written it differently.
I T'was Jartreb Doorn
Reply to message
am I the only person here who really liked it? - 12/09/2009 05:15:12 PM 1620 Views
You are not the only one! - 12/09/2009 05:53:08 PM 1359 Views
I managed to reply to my own post. Ignore this! - 12/09/2009 05:56:11 PM 924 Views
I thought it was very bad... - 12/09/2009 08:46:32 PM 971 Views
I love Winter's Heart - 13/09/2009 12:46:27 AM 944 Views
I didn't really think it was that bad at all..... - 12/09/2009 06:06:25 PM 1087 Views
You are certainly not the only one... - 12/09/2009 06:27:09 PM 988 Views
I agree about Mat and Tuon. - 12/09/2009 06:43:15 PM 1018 Views
Re: I agree about Mat and Tuon. - 12/09/2009 07:08:08 PM 995 Views
Re: I agree about Mat and Tuon. - 13/09/2009 05:19:08 AM 941 Views
Re: I agree about Mat and Tuon. - 13/09/2009 04:15:24 PM 921 Views
Mat/Tuon, and the Rand stuff was good. The rest, esp. Elayne was blech - 12/09/2009 07:37:44 PM 980 Views
I didn't "really like" it but I also didn't think it was so bad - 13/09/2009 12:25:19 AM 944 Views
- 13/09/2009 10:16:01 PM 949 Views
I like it too - 13/09/2009 10:40:13 PM 871 Views
I like ALL the books, just some are better than others. *NM* - 13/09/2009 01:43:54 AM 485 Views
I was able to 'endure' because of the Mat POV's - 13/09/2009 07:03:50 AM 977 Views
I liked it. But I like all the books. *NM* - 13/09/2009 12:16:42 PM 496 Views
I found it useless more than bad - 13/09/2009 05:52:17 PM 923 Views
Not my favorite, but it has its place - 14/09/2009 06:32:33 AM 951 Views
On my reread it's a lot better/ - 13/09/2009 07:33:01 PM 1011 Views
Re: am I the only person here who really liked it? - 14/09/2009 12:23:58 AM 939 Views
I did too. *NM* - 15/09/2009 03:04:58 AM 457 Views

Reply to Message