Wheel of Time series

Sterling

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Sanderson really struggled writing Mat chapters. That shit was painful to read.
 
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TheBeagle

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Just finished a reread of the entire series. Still holds up and it truly felt like getting together with some old, dear friends that I havent seen in a long time. Even enjoyed the books everyone bitches about, for me it was the Elayne chapters that I least enjoyed, so I skimmed the shit out of those.

The absolute finality of the ending knowing RJ has passed and there will never be a return to any of these characters hit me pretty hard and I'm still kind of in a funk one week later after finishing it. For me, there will never be any other series that will ever compare and I hope I can stick around long enough to reread it another couple times before waking from this dream.

*I was able to read them all for free through a 3 month trial of Kindle unlimited on Amazon.
 
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Falstaff

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I just started a re-read of the series too after finally picking up a hardcover copy of Towers of Midnight at half price books. It was sold out everywhere when I originally read the series during covid, last one I needed for my collection.
 
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Hateyou

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I’m in the middle of a reread/relisten too, anbout to hit book 6, and feel the same way as TheBeagle TheBeagle . It’s still painful to read Nynaeve and Elayne but whatever, there’s so much memorable stuff that rereading it is enjoyable. I started reading it when I was 13 or 14 and would start over every time a new book came out. This is my first reread since the final book came out. I don’t remember much about the last few books so that’ll be fun too.
 
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moonarchia

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It was a great fantasy world. Some of the characters sucked. Some of RJ's writing sucked too. *braid tugging intensifies*

I enjoyed the lore behind Mat and Perrin's stories more than Rands, and was utterly disapppointed that both got completely pussy whipped in the end.
 

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It was a great fantasy world. Some of the characters sucked. Some of RJ's writing sucked too. *braid tugging intensifies*

I enjoyed the lore behind Mat and Perrin's stories more than Rands, and was utterly disapppointed that both got completely pussy whipped in the end.
Oh absolutely. The series is not flawless by any means.

The main women are just horrible. Nynaeve, Elayne, Faille, most all the Aes Sedai. They all make absolutely retarded decisions constantly, then blame men. He’s also WAY too repetitive on unnecessary BS. “The men shared a glance the way men all do” “braid tugging” “sniffing” “I wish Perrin or mat were here, he understands woman, unlike me” after the hundredth time you read those sentences it’s just so damn tiresome.

There’s also the infamous middle books that just meandered and added completely pointless side stories that should have never been in.

It’s flawed enough that I don’t even recommend it to people without heavy caveats so they know what they’re getting into. I still love it overall just because of the high points, world building, etc.
 
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TheBeagle

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On this latest read through I enjoyed the Egwene chapters more than most of the Perrin chapters. Nynaeve gets better once her and Elayne separate. Faille during her captivity with the Shaido and Elayne gaining the Lion Throne were really the only two parts that I just couldnt stand.
 
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