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BTW, did you see the Folio Society's color-coded The Sound and the Fury? Tom Send a noteboard - 10/10/2012 08:06:18 PM
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.

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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

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So when the book/series ends, what will it have all meant? - 08/10/2012 09:47:49 PM 1852 Views
Years of enjoyment. What else do you expect from fiction? - 08/10/2012 10:17:30 PM 851 Views
I expect a lot from fiction, to be honest - 09/10/2012 02:43:59 AM 883 Views
HAHAHA! - 08/10/2012 10:17:58 PM 925 Views
Yeah, the use of my time does matter - 09/10/2012 02:45:15 AM 850 Views
Not sure I'd call it mindless - 09/10/2012 02:53:00 AM 824 Views
Well, it is a bit more complex than a D&D novel - 09/10/2012 02:55:40 AM 826 Views
I'm not really a huge fiction reader to begin with - 09/10/2012 11:25:34 PM 718 Views
I've noticed that quite a few here/wotmania have not been big fiction (fantasy) readers - 11/10/2012 05:48:02 AM 806 Views
Re: I've noticed that quite a few here/wotmania have not been big fiction (fantasy) readers - 12/10/2012 05:11:20 PM 748 Views
I like the TV series ... It's gritty - 13/10/2012 11:44:06 PM 708 Views
Well... it's a bit late in the game... - 09/10/2012 02:04:16 AM 929 Views
True, but it's never too late to ask people such questions - 09/10/2012 02:49:28 AM 725 Views
I'm not sure... - 09/10/2012 06:03:08 AM 745 Views
Well, we may be in closer agreement then - 09/10/2012 06:43:50 PM 773 Views
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Re: Well, we may be in closer agreement then - 11/10/2012 06:14:27 AM 656 Views
Re: I'm not sure... - 11/10/2012 06:15:26 PM 708 Views
There's a reason for this... - 09/10/2012 02:11:21 AM 828 Views
True - 09/10/2012 02:54:12 AM 859 Views
Re: True - 09/10/2012 06:19:42 AM 740 Views
I am now visualizing WoT as a telenovela adaptation - 09/10/2012 06:59:11 PM 698 Views
everything about Lanfear screams TeleNovela! - 11/10/2012 04:38:03 AM 651 Views
Por ella, soy Luisa Therin? - 11/10/2012 05:44:32 AM 732 Views
All of the names would have to be longer and more pompous - 11/10/2012 03:54:30 PM 615 Views
Not in this particular telenovela adaptation - 11/10/2012 05:48:06 PM 949 Views
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It also has Faulknerian allusions - 09/10/2012 07:04:55 PM 779 Views
BTW, did you see the Folio Society's color-coded The Sound and the Fury? - 10/10/2012 08:06:18 PM 986 Views
Re: So when the book/series ends, what will it have all meant? - 11/10/2012 10:52:01 AM 702 Views
It will have meant.. . - 11/10/2012 06:59:43 PM 695 Views
So... - 11/10/2012 07:05:41 PM 756 Views
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I would think for most the money spent wasn't too bad - 11/10/2012 08:07:49 PM 898 Views
I got my money's worth, oh yes. - 12/10/2012 07:59:58 PM 678 Views
I'm not sure it means anything. - 11/10/2012 08:10:45 PM 819 Views
I'm not sure there is too much meaning - 15/10/2012 05:57:57 PM 708 Views

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