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Jordan should have taken the fact that so many of his readers cared enough to work out upcoming plot twists as a compliment, not a challenge.
Jordan should have taken the fact that so many of his readers cared enough to work out upcoming plot twists as a compliment, not a challenge.
Exactly.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Which Part of WoT Plot Did You Dislike the Most?
- 30/05/2017 02:49:26 AM
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The internecine warfare in the White Tower should have taken up about one fifth the size it did. *NM*
- 30/05/2017 06:01:47 AM
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It felt like such little payoff for staying devoted to such a terrible storyline
- 31/05/2017 12:33:43 AM
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The real annoyance with the WT stuff. Is not knowing if it never meant much, or just died with RJ.
- 31/05/2017 06:36:57 PM
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Demandred not being Taim.
- 30/05/2017 02:53:40 PM
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Naw, dude, he was totally in, uh... Shara the while time. Obviously. 
- 30/05/2017 05:35:15 PM
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- 30/05/2017 05:35:15 PM
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Totally agreed.
- 30/05/2017 06:52:00 PM
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Perrin rescuing Faile
- 30/05/2017 04:11:10 PM
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A Sanderson book, not a Jordan book, just as a point of fact
- 30/05/2017 11:55:53 PM
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The subplot was almost the entirety of Crossroads of Twilight... *NM*
- 01/06/2017 01:23:21 PM
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COT may have been the worst novel ever written..... *NM*
- 01/06/2017 05:17:27 PM
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Have you read Vellum by Hal Duncan? It was worse. *NM*
- 01/06/2017 09:03:08 PM
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Ah crap. Seriously? I guess I shouldn't feel bad for having it in my to read pile for so long then. *NM*
- 03/06/2017 01:08:02 AM
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Nah, that "award winning" SciFi novel by sombody Adams that either Tom of Cannoli convinced me to re
- 02/06/2017 12:56:53 PM
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There is no way I recommended a sci-fi book to someone, other than Lem's Solaris.
- 03/06/2017 07:25:00 PM
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Anything that had to do...
- 30/05/2017 04:45:27 PM
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Yeah, but Rand being whiny did give us the best scene in the series, IMHO.
- 30/05/2017 08:27:54 PM
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Anything involving the political machinations of Cannoli's favorite character
- 30/05/2017 06:59:31 PM
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Most plotlines involving Egwene after book three or so. And yeah, much of Perrin's storyline.
- 30/05/2017 07:15:26 PM
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*NM*
Am I the only person who didn't hate Egwene?
- 30/05/2017 11:46:47 PM
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I didn't mind her early on
- 31/05/2017 12:14:19 AM
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But... Her #1 goal since the very first page she is on is to NOT be "a innkeeper's daughter".
- 31/05/2017 06:14:18 AM
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That's true, but she WAS an innkeepers daughter.
- 31/05/2017 10:49:04 AM
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Which simply made her all the more reckless in attempting to NOT be until she wasn't. *NM*
- 31/05/2017 04:22:46 PM
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It was the direction he took her.
- 31/05/2017 03:04:21 AM
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That's almost true of every character
- 31/05/2017 10:52:55 AM
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That is true
- 31/05/2017 12:20:47 PM
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I kind of feel like Seanchan was setting up for the "outrigger" stories.
- 31/05/2017 10:46:53 PM
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I actively liked her until probably around PATH OF DAGGERS. Then I was just vaguely indifferent.
- 31/05/2017 04:15:37 AM
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I'm always impressed by people who can keep them straight.
- 31/05/2017 10:59:09 AM
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The return/rescue of Moiraine.....totally pointless in the end
- 31/05/2017 12:52:27 PM
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It treated her as somekind of Wheel high priestess... And everone just went with it...
- 31/05/2017 07:12:40 PM
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Took forever to think of full on "plot" I'd go so far as to DISLIKE. Then it hit me. "Pink ribbons".
- 01/06/2017 06:28:13 AM
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