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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 1908 Views
Years of enjoyment. What else do you expect from fiction? - 08/10/2012 10:17:30 PM 905 Views
I expect a lot from fiction, to be honest - 09/10/2012 02:43:59 AM 927 Views
HAHAHA! - 08/10/2012 10:17:58 PM 967 Views
Yeah, the use of my time does matter - 09/10/2012 02:45:15 AM 885 Views
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Well, it is a bit more complex than a D&D novel - 09/10/2012 02:55:40 AM 868 Views
I'm not really a huge fiction reader to begin with - 09/10/2012 11:25:34 PM 760 Views
I've noticed that quite a few here/wotmania have not been big fiction (fantasy) readers - 11/10/2012 05:48:02 AM 847 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 789 Views
I like the TV series ... It's gritty - 13/10/2012 11:44:06 PM 750 Views
Well... it's a bit late in the game... - 09/10/2012 02:04:16 AM 965 Views
True, but it's never too late to ask people such questions - 09/10/2012 02:49:28 AM 769 Views
I'm not sure... - 09/10/2012 06:03:08 AM 781 Views
Well, we may be in closer agreement then - 09/10/2012 06:43:50 PM 819 Views
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Re: Well, we may be in closer agreement then - 11/10/2012 06:14:27 AM 699 Views
Re: I'm not sure... - 11/10/2012 06:15:26 PM 751 Views
There's a reason for this... - 09/10/2012 02:11:21 AM 867 Views
True - 09/10/2012 02:54:12 AM 899 Views
Re: True - 09/10/2012 06:19:42 AM 778 Views
I am now visualizing WoT as a telenovela adaptation - 09/10/2012 06:59:11 PM 748 Views
everything about Lanfear screams TeleNovela! - 11/10/2012 04:38:03 AM 697 Views
Por ella, soy Luisa Therin? - 11/10/2012 05:44:32 AM 776 Views
All of the names would have to be longer and more pompous - 11/10/2012 03:54:30 PM 648 Views
Not in this particular telenovela adaptation - 11/10/2012 05:48:06 PM 996 Views
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It also has Faulknerian allusions - 09/10/2012 07:04:55 PM 820 Views
BTW, did you see the Folio Society's color-coded The Sound and the Fury? - 10/10/2012 08:06:18 PM 1046 Views
Re: So when the book/series ends, what will it have all meant? - 11/10/2012 10:52:01 AM 756 Views
It will have meant.. . - 11/10/2012 06:59:43 PM 739 Views
So... - 11/10/2012 07:05:41 PM 800 Views
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I would think for most the money spent wasn't too bad - 11/10/2012 08:07:49 PM 938 Views
I got my money's worth, oh yes. - 12/10/2012 07:59:58 PM 719 Views
I'm not sure it means anything. - 11/10/2012 08:10:45 PM 871 Views
I'm not sure there is too much meaning - 15/10/2012 05:57:57 PM 754 Views

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