1. Crossroads of Twilight. Yeah. I'm going there, bitches.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 05/11/2011 06:00:25 PM
1. CROSSROADS OF TWILIGHT
- Best bath scene in the entire series.
- Egwene's most clear moment of inarguable stupidity, not written by Brandon Sanderson. This is like my trump card, that no one even BOTHERS to defend or argue for her.
- In hindsight, it really proves the fallacy of one of the stupidest complaints, that "nothing happens" in CoT. Look at how active the board was between CoT & KoD, compared to how dead it has become following two of the most "happening" books in the series. Just maybe it made for a lot more interesting character development and whatnot than the other books with a barely recognizable Rand waving his hands and blasting Shadow assets to kingdom come.
In retrospect, though, I have a hard time ranking them because I was a lot of different ages when reading them and what I look for in a book has changed a lot since then as well. Do I still find Mat's Big Adventure of tDR the high point of the series I did at 16? Not at all. But now there are new things I admire about the characterization of that book. So is it fair to rank the book based on what I think now, or thought then, or what about all the unfulfilled promise of where the series was going? I like where it was heading in the recent books (at least the underlying lessons and so on), but that's not what the early books seemed to promise (and I am not speaking of the Tolkien-esque false start that was pretty much done by the time the Children of the Light were introduced and it became apparent just how complex the TO&E of the Good Guys was going to be). Sometimes I think the early books about the adventures of a guy named Rand are a completely different series than the current one, that has become the ensemble adventure of a larger group.
So yeah, I'm both being obstructive and begging the question! Because we all know how stimulating and interesting a survey post is where everyone gives their own rankings and respects everyone else's opinion.
- Best bath scene in the entire series.
- Egwene's most clear moment of inarguable stupidity, not written by Brandon Sanderson. This is like my trump card, that no one even BOTHERS to defend or argue for her.
- In hindsight, it really proves the fallacy of one of the stupidest complaints, that "nothing happens" in CoT. Look at how active the board was between CoT & KoD, compared to how dead it has become following two of the most "happening" books in the series. Just maybe it made for a lot more interesting character development and whatnot than the other books with a barely recognizable Rand waving his hands and blasting Shadow assets to kingdom come.
In retrospect, though, I have a hard time ranking them because I was a lot of different ages when reading them and what I look for in a book has changed a lot since then as well. Do I still find Mat's Big Adventure of tDR the high point of the series I did at 16? Not at all. But now there are new things I admire about the characterization of that book. So is it fair to rank the book based on what I think now, or thought then, or what about all the unfulfilled promise of where the series was going? I like where it was heading in the recent books (at least the underlying lessons and so on), but that's not what the early books seemed to promise (and I am not speaking of the Tolkien-esque false start that was pretty much done by the time the Children of the Light were introduced and it became apparent just how complex the TO&E of the Good Guys was going to be). Sometimes I think the early books about the adventures of a guy named Rand are a completely different series than the current one, that has become the ensemble adventure of a larger group.
So yeah, I'm both being obstructive and begging the question! Because we all know how stimulating and interesting a survey post is where everyone gives their own rankings and respects everyone else's opinion.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
Ranking the books.
03/11/2011 07:30:39 PM
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My ranking:
03/11/2011 07:44:49 PM
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For all it's worth
03/11/2011 08:12:06 PM
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TSR wins it for the Rhuidean Aiel history scene alone
04/11/2011 04:49:29 AM
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Oh please, this place is dead. Mort, Tod, död. Any activity is good
03/11/2011 08:07:36 PM
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1. Crossroads of Twilight. Yeah. I'm going there, bitches.
05/11/2011 06:00:25 PM
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