I didn't get to WOTmania until at least Fires of Heaven was out. I can't even remember my orginal WOTmania ID I set it up so long ago that AOL was basically the only internet provider. I had been running L0gan on Wot for 5-6 years. Anyways I digress.
Think of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Powerful well written books that I think could be argued didn't become well-known until they were referenced by Led Zeppelin. Once that happened all kinds of "Frodo lives" type things started to appear.
So by the time Wheel of Time came about there was actually an acceptability to people reading Sci-Fi epic fantasy and there was a little bit of shelf space for the genre.
Now with the arrival of Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth; I pick these two since in my opinion they've been the best marketed books, and the virtual simultaneous expansion of the internet. I would say the Wheel of Time had a very short fuse until it's popularity exploded.
On the flip side I find myself wondering this:
Would Wheel of Time gone to 15-16 books without the internet exploding it's popularity? Or would Robert Jordan instead had somehow wrapped it up in a more concise tighter say 5-6 volumes?
Think of the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. Powerful well written books that I think could be argued didn't become well-known until they were referenced by Led Zeppelin. Once that happened all kinds of "Frodo lives" type things started to appear.
So by the time Wheel of Time came about there was actually an acceptability to people reading Sci-Fi epic fantasy and there was a little bit of shelf space for the genre.
Now with the arrival of Wheel of Time, Sword of Truth; I pick these two since in my opinion they've been the best marketed books, and the virtual simultaneous expansion of the internet. I would say the Wheel of Time had a very short fuse until it's popularity exploded.
On the flip side I find myself wondering this:
Would Wheel of Time gone to 15-16 books without the internet exploding it's popularity? Or would Robert Jordan instead had somehow wrapped it up in a more concise tighter say 5-6 volumes?
Would the Wheel of Time be what it is without the internet?
- 31/08/2009 05:43:38 AM
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Yes, just not as fast. Now with counter-questions!
- 31/08/2009 07:15:03 AM
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I read my first wot books back in... 1996, I think. It was loaned to me from a friend.
- 01/09/2009 07:20:22 PM
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I would have eventually forgotten about it and not understood a lot of it if it weren't for the
- 03/09/2009 04:23:39 AM
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