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I quite enjoyed it, don't really understand what all of the fuss is about. everynametaken Send a noteboard - 11/03/2013 12:52:56 AM

View original postOverall, I was happy with the story and most importantly, the ending. Showing the "hollowness" of the world without the existence of the DO was a nice touch.....a bit surprising, but plausible. So, some likes and dislikes:




View original post- overall ending

Agree. I liked the wrap except for Perrin searching around for Faile.


View original post- Rand's character and arc

Pretty good. I tired a little bit of the alternate scenarios but understood the reason for them. I also thought he returned to his former whiny self a little too much but enjoyed his character over all.


View original post- Demandred's story.....i.e., killing a bunch of people in sword fights, only to lose to the master/Lan

I tired a little of the constant yelling for Lews Therin to come meet him but overall I liked Demandred. I do agree with Tom and others that he was really underutilized but given the fact that he was in Shara I don't know how much could have been done otherwise. I liked how he made chump change of Double G. They were thought to be so skilled in the earlier books but he just shredded them without that much effort. I loved Lan defeating him, it was... fitting. The only thing that bothered me about Demandred was that he never really go the point that Rand WASN'T THERE!!! I mean, really, did he expect Lews Therin to be on the battlefield rather than at Shayul Ghul??? I also loved Lan's interaction with Tam where he told him he had wondered who had given him the heron marked sword and now he knew. That moment felt like Tam's true spotlight moment in the entire series.


View original post- Mat/Tuon interactions

I liked these interactions overall. No, Sanderson doesn't do Mat like Jordan but I can live with that. He is such a fan favorite through the entire series that Sanderson could never have lived up to Jordan's Mat, but overall Matt and Tuon were good for me.


View original post- the scope of the battles and pacing of the book

Yes, I quite enjoyed the entire pacing. We had 13 books of character development. It was time for the Last Battle. I was surprised at how long it was developed from the four fronts into one final push against the Dark One's forces but Sanderson wrote it well. I had just finished The Way of Kings where there is a lot of battlefield/battlecamp presence and I could definitely tell it was Sanderson's style in the writing.




View original post- needed a longer epilogue, yes I know RJ had the last scene in his mind for decades, but such a long/epic story deserved some more wrapping up/future scenes than just Rand riding off into the night (perhaps we will get this with additional books, never know)

It was OK for me. I liked Cadsuane's realization at what had happened. It felt like she was proud at his cleverness, I could just envision her smiling to herself and thinking "how clever".


View original post- Perrin, sorry, but his stuff with Slayer was pretty pointless (regarding how it impacted the LB)

Grew very tired of the neverending chasing around and so on. I was happy when it was finally over, except it wasn't because then he continued running around endlessly looking for Faile.


View original post- use of several characters (Moiraine and Lanfear in particular, they could have done more, but perhaps this is a criticism on the entire series)

I was OK with Moraine, I'm not sure what people really expected of her. I was a little disappointed at the lack of explanation about just what had happened in the Tower of Ghenji to rescue her. Oh well, I'm not really sure it was Sanderson's place to write that scene anyway.
I liked Lanfear's final trick. I did not see that one coming at all. I had just figured throughout the book that she had pretty much resigned herself to laying low and not rally participating so when she flipped in the end was shown to be totally unremorseful and totally up t her own schemes, I was like Bam! Should have saw it but didn't at all.


View original post- Moridin was pretty useless in the end

Yeah, he really didn't end up doing that much. I didn't really get whether the empty skin of Shadar Haran (was that the Myrdraal's name?) was really him the whole time or whether he was saying that the Dark One had created him but then discarded him.


View original postSo, question to everyone.....we are now 2 months out since most have read the book. Have your initial reactions changed or evolved?

I enjoyed it and felt, for a lack of a better word, happy in the end. I was happy the series was over but also pleased at how the entire thing overall turned out. The series was fun, I even gave both of my 12 year old nieces a copy of The Eye of the World for their birthday. I hope they pick it up one day and have as much enjoyment with the series as I did over the years.

But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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Finally finished it - don't agree with most complainers - thought it was pretty damn good! - 09/03/2013 05:17:28 PM 2288 Views
No change - 09/03/2013 09:16:40 PM 1258 Views
I tried a re-read and gave up - 09/03/2013 10:37:53 PM 1178 Views
I actually agree with you. - 10/03/2013 01:44:09 AM 1245 Views
I loved it too! *NM* - 10/03/2013 08:02:08 AM 619 Views
No change here ... Still feels like a rather rushed book that focused too much on a battle and not - 10/03/2013 10:52:17 PM 1134 Views
I agree on the too much battle POV..... - 11/03/2013 02:47:59 AM 993 Views
I quite enjoyed it, don't really understand what all of the fuss is about. - 11/03/2013 12:52:56 AM 1236 Views
A few other things..... - 11/03/2013 02:58:41 AM 1099 Views
Re: A few other things..... - 11/03/2013 04:19:42 PM 1153 Views
Re: A few other things..... - 13/03/2013 08:31:43 PM 1042 Views
Finished it last night. I don't have to mention that here be spoilers. - 13/03/2013 09:08:07 AM 1175 Views
Re: Finished it last night. I don't have to mention that here be spoilers. - 13/03/2013 10:23:09 AM 1033 Views
That's a really good point. - 14/03/2013 08:03:29 AM 1089 Views
Re: That's a really good point. - 14/03/2013 10:32:10 AM 994 Views
There's really no reason ... - 20/03/2013 09:19:34 PM 1024 Views
STOP RUINING MY LIFE. *NM* - 20/03/2013 10:43:43 PM 657 Views
Very true about Nynaeve, she essentially did nothing.....also..... - 14/03/2013 03:34:27 AM 982 Views
Yeah - 14/03/2013 08:12:20 AM 967 Views
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Have you been reading down the page? - 14/03/2013 08:01:32 AM 1182 Views
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Mine was Graendal. - 14/03/2013 10:05:29 PM 1086 Views
Isn't it a thing of Channelers? - 15/03/2013 06:19:44 PM 1141 Views
Yeah, and warders. - 15/03/2013 07:28:14 PM 947 Views
Hi Nossy - 18/03/2013 11:23:25 AM 1000 Views
I'm getting the feeling that you may not have wanted to type that up. - 18/03/2013 09:00:56 PM 1116 Views
Hah! - 19/03/2013 10:01:15 AM 966 Views
watch it! - 20/03/2013 08:50:45 PM 1115 Views
Am I going mad, or did the title of this thread change and then change back? *NM* - 14/03/2013 05:42:15 PM 505 Views
You are sane. For now. - 14/03/2013 08:23:01 PM 1066 Views

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