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I'm actually pretty comfortable with it! RugbyPlayingAshaman Send a noteboard - 04/12/2009 04:12:32 PM
Preface: I normally do not read sci-fi/fantasy, and enjoy non-fiction more.

Here's the thing: I started the series reading it as a very serious take on the fantasy genre, and was very dissapointed with the direction RJ took in many instances.

Recently, while doing a re-read of the series earlier this year, I quelled the editor in my from my literary days, and just read it as an updated fairy story. I was surprised by the fact that I liked it very much more when reading it as the latter. Personally, I've found the story structure to be more interesting, and while the series has lost it's compellingness for me, I think it's a lot more fun.

It has some thought-provoking characters, such as Moiraine, but in general, I do not find the main cast to be that impressive or interesting - I'm actually more drawn into the world-building, as gestalt as it can be, and the way the laws of the universe are set up.

So my comment is not a knock against the series - it's simply that for me, as a reader, my enjoyment comes out of reading it as casual reader versus being overly critical towards it. This is not a series that does well under close scrutiny, IMHO of course.
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Semirhage and Egwene - 04/12/2009 02:31:45 PM 1656 Views
I agree with all of that. - 04/12/2009 02:58:48 PM 893 Views
Re: I agree with all of that. *NM* - 04/12/2009 03:22:49 PM 430 Views
Re: I agree with all of that. - 04/12/2009 03:29:46 PM 843 Views
Re: I agree with all of that. - 04/12/2009 03:33:03 PM 875 Views
Re: I agree with all of that. - 04/12/2009 04:13:55 PM 770 Views
The entire cast is full of Perfect Sues and Stuarts (I may have just made latter up) - 04/12/2009 03:14:27 PM 903 Views
If you plan to write that review before the last two books are out, you better get re-reading now. *NM* - 04/12/2009 03:20:31 PM 377 Views
I'm actually pretty comfortable with it! - 04/12/2009 04:12:32 PM 796 Views
Re: I'm actually pretty comfortable with it! - 04/12/2009 06:50:10 PM 821 Views
about Semirhage - 04/12/2009 03:21:32 PM 1208 Views
but - 04/12/2009 03:26:29 PM 804 Views
Re: but - 04/12/2009 03:35:52 PM 789 Views
Re: but - 04/12/2009 03:46:00 PM 837 Views
Re: but - 04/12/2009 03:51:03 PM 793 Views
Cadsuane is rather close to perfect herself. - 04/12/2009 08:37:21 PM 883 Views
Re: but - 04/12/2009 05:04:12 PM 793 Views
Re: but - 04/12/2009 05:41:51 PM 806 Views
She was never THAT person. - 06/12/2009 01:22:39 AM 770 Views
Never WHAT person? - 06/12/2009 10:21:43 PM 798 Views
I'm not sure I agree - 08/12/2009 12:54:43 PM 663 Views
I agree! - 04/12/2009 04:31:24 PM 764 Views
Re: about Semirhage - 04/12/2009 08:16:15 PM 793 Views
Alas, Semirhage was actually an idiot - 04/12/2009 05:03:48 PM 928 Views
Re: Alas, Semirhage was actually an idiot - 04/12/2009 06:42:41 PM 790 Views
If one compares the characters... - 05/12/2009 11:24:16 AM 721 Views
Did I miss Rand's marriage ceremonies? I always thought the three girls only bonded him *NM* - 05/12/2009 11:27:36 AM 377 Views
You are right... - 05/12/2009 12:21:59 PM 750 Views
I disagree - 05/12/2009 05:11:28 PM 749 Views
Egwene had the best mix of teachers and a desire to learn. Most believable, IMO. *NM* - 04/12/2009 10:17:56 PM 399 Views
That's really nonsense - 05/12/2009 11:13:20 AM 729 Views
I think your perception is very skewed - 05/12/2009 05:16:46 PM 729 Views
Agreed - 05/12/2009 06:15:46 PM 758 Views
Bull! - 06/12/2009 02:55:13 AM 759 Views
Rabbit! - 06/12/2009 04:14:10 AM 697 Views
Re: Alas, Semirhage was actually an idiot - 05/12/2009 06:11:40 PM 736 Views
Indeed - 05/12/2009 06:30:39 PM 802 Views
And yet Egwene is still a fool regarding Gawyn. - 04/12/2009 05:44:49 PM 864 Views
Gawyn is a fool all of his own - 04/12/2009 08:02:10 PM 793 Views
Re: Gawyn is a fool all of his own - 05/12/2009 05:54:11 AM 700 Views
Please stop - your use of logic here is sickening! - 06/12/2009 04:43:31 AM 767 Views
I disagree with most of that - 05/12/2009 10:58:12 AM 774 Views
Egwene has a long way to go ... - 05/12/2009 06:16:31 PM 771 Views
Hardly a blunder - 06/12/2009 01:43:54 AM 733 Views
Re: Hardly a blunder? Send Egwene back to Silviana. - 07/12/2009 04:03:08 PM 756 Views
Or she her rescue forced her hand. She lost her advantage - 07/12/2009 04:47:56 PM 657 Views
She lost her advantage?!? Siuan probably saved her life - 09/12/2009 11:57:26 AM 756 Views
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She should have attacked when they first arrived - 07/12/2009 09:35:33 PM 682 Views
Don't damn me, damn Graendal - 09/12/2009 12:51:18 PM 719 Views
Re: Don't damn me, damn Graendal - 09/12/2009 06:11:53 PM 874 Views
A couple of points - 09/12/2009 07:11:18 PM 760 Views
I'm re-reading the series now for the first time in years. Egwene has always been a weak character. - 07/12/2009 01:12:15 AM 748 Views
LOL *NM* - 07/12/2009 04:29:56 AM 301 Views
I think you'll find few people who agree with you on both of those counts... - 07/12/2009 01:53:58 PM 705 Views
Not at all. - 07/12/2009 03:20:38 PM 689 Views
Irritating teen spirits ... - 07/12/2009 04:32:51 PM 774 Views
As long as the bags were Louis Vuitton all would be fine *NM* - 07/12/2009 04:51:13 PM 433 Views
You must not have been reading the same series I have. - 07/12/2009 10:33:23 PM 815 Views
Re: You must not have been reading the same series I have. - 09/12/2009 01:12:56 PM 720 Views
Re: You must not have been reading the same series I have. - 09/12/2009 02:59:04 PM 753 Views

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