No, but I'll keep it in mind for the future when I have more money to spare
Larry Send a noteboard - 11/10/2012 05:49:52 AM
It was apparently Faulkner's desire to color-code the text based on the time, so Folio went and did it.
On the relative merit of Wheel of Time, it is obviously more complex than a D&D adventure. I might argue that the world building was very poorly executed (from the Tolkienesque shape of Randland to the absolutely abysmal Old Tongue and universal "modern" tongue), but the storytelling was generally good, at least for the first six books.
On the relative merit of Wheel of Time, it is obviously more complex than a D&D adventure. I might argue that the world building was very poorly executed (from the Tolkienesque shape of Randland to the absolutely abysmal Old Tongue and universal "modern" tongue), but the storytelling was generally good, at least for the first six books.
I've never been one who cares much (if at all) for "worldbuilding," as I see it as little more than setting on steroids, but yes, by the sixth volume (if not the fifth), the narrative "seams" were beginning to burst for me. More obvious when I re-read them two years ago.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
So when the book/series ends, what will it have all meant?
- 08/10/2012 09:47:49 PM
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HAHAHA!
- 08/10/2012 10:17:58 PM
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Yeah, the use of my time does matter 
- 09/10/2012 02:45:15 AM
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- 09/10/2012 02:45:15 AM
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Not sure I'd call it mindless
- 09/10/2012 02:53:00 AM
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Well, it is a bit more complex than a D&D novel
- 09/10/2012 02:55:40 AM
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- 09/10/2012 02:55:40 AM
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I'm not really a huge fiction reader to begin with
- 09/10/2012 11:25:34 PM
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I've noticed that quite a few here/wotmania have not been big fiction (fantasy) readers
- 11/10/2012 05:48:02 AM
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Re: I've noticed that quite a few here/wotmania have not been big fiction (fantasy) readers
- 12/10/2012 05:11:20 PM
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Well... it's a bit late in the game...
- 09/10/2012 02:04:16 AM
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True, but it's never too late to ask people such questions
- 09/10/2012 02:49:28 AM
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I'm not sure...
- 09/10/2012 06:03:08 AM
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Well, we may be in closer agreement then
- 09/10/2012 06:43:50 PM
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There's a reason for this...
- 09/10/2012 02:11:21 AM
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True
- 09/10/2012 02:54:12 AM
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Re: True
- 09/10/2012 06:19:42 AM
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I am now visualizing WoT as a telenovela adaptation 
- 09/10/2012 06:59:11 PM
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- 09/10/2012 06:59:11 PM
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everything about Lanfear screams TeleNovela!
- 11/10/2012 04:38:03 AM
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Por ella, soy Luisa Therin?
- 11/10/2012 05:44:32 AM
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- 11/10/2012 05:44:32 AM
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It is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
- 09/10/2012 02:21:20 PM
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It also has Faulknerian allusions
- 09/10/2012 07:04:55 PM
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BTW, did you see the Folio Society's color-coded The Sound and the Fury?
- 10/10/2012 08:06:18 PM
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Re: BTW, did you see the Folio Society's color-coded The Sound and the Fury?
- 10/10/2012 09:39:56 PM
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No, but I'll keep it in mind for the future when I have more money to spare
- 11/10/2012 05:49:52 AM
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It sold out fast. They might reprint it, though.
- 11/10/2012 03:45:20 PM
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Hopefully, that or it won't be more than $200 when I do have the money to spare
- 11/10/2012 05:53:20 PM
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Re: So when the book/series ends, what will it have all meant?
- 11/10/2012 10:52:01 AM
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Ah, where would we be without such bright lights like you around?
- 11/10/2012 05:59:48 PM
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It will have meant.. .
- 11/10/2012 06:59:43 PM
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So...
- 11/10/2012 07:05:41 PM
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For me, yes.
- 11/10/2012 07:45:25 PM
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