On The Wheel Of Time (So Far)

Fri, July 10, 2009 - 7:23 PM PST

I think I mentioned this before, but I'm finally reading The Wheel Of Time. For whatever reason I had never started it before and I saw the first few books at the local Goodwill for less than a dollar each and so I picked them up. Every few weeks I go back and look for others and so far I've been able to collect up through book 6. That's a pretty good deal for about 1000 pages per book. I'm presently on book 4 after about 6 months of reading them... I knew that the author died after 11 volumes without finishing the series and that someone else was brought on to finish it off, but I didn't know until now that it's actually going to require 3 more fullsize novels to complete it.

So after about 4,000 pages, I'm less than a third of the way through the whole thing with about 20% of it still unpublished.

Shit. This may have been why I held off on reading it for so long. Oh well... They're not bad.

Well, that's not exactly true. In some ways they are bad. Like, what's up with "trollocs" rather than Orcs? And I could do without everyone being beautiful - I mean, it's a book... not a movie; eye-candy doesn't work that way. And it's so long! But I guess not bad.