Carie ’s Comments (group member since Jan 04, 2016)

Carie ’s comments from the Let's Read: The Wheel of Time group.

He's adorable.

About the electronic book thing, my Kindle Paperwhite kind of does that. If I'm connected to wifi I can press down on a word and it will take me to a book description or wiki summary. It helped me keep characters straight when reading the last Game of Thrones book.

Also, in the beginning, I was reeeally excited for Beltine or whatever the festival was called. It took me back to reading I really thought we were going to experience some festival and then the action would break out there. So I was pretty upset it didnt happen. I'll never forgive the dark one for ruining my first Belltine.

I like Lan as well. He's another lotr parallel. Like Strider he's a ranger with incredible skill, uncrowned king, sort of a doomed/bittersweet romance w Nyneve set-up. Perhaps we'll see him become King and their relationship work out because I could see Nyneve as a Queen.

Loial is tied with Perrin for my favorite characters so far. Loial because he's just sort of refreshing and he likes books and boardgames. I love how he's always talking about how he's so rambunctious for an Ogier but seems so tame.

At the start, I liked Perrin because his character description reminded me of Caden. His wolf story seems like it will interesting.

The fights with the Green man were some of my favorite moments. I'll have to go back and find the quote but he like literally exploded the earth through the dude. It was pretty cool.

I also loved the chapter where they were in The Ways. That held my interest. Reminded me of something from a Gaiman book a bit.

I agree with your comment on Rand. I feel about him about they same as I felt about Harry in the Potter books. Also, I enjoyed how every girl he met was just the prettiest thing ever to him. That said, there's something about the women characters that I find unappealing but I can't quite put my finger on it. It's feels like they are all kind of gruff/too serious or something but maybe that's a symptom of the world they live in. Also, it could be that I'm not a fan of the woman narrator of the audio book. I wish it was just narrated by one person.

I did a combination of reading the book and listening to audiobook.

Sometimes it's difficult for me to follow the huge history dumps that he gives all of a sudden and I'll have to reread them. I noticed he spends a lot of time describing little minute details (like down to the threading in someones clothes) but I kinda liked it.

More later..

Beware of Spoilers. This post is for discussing the whole book once you've finished.

Beware of spoilers. This is for chatting about the first 27 chapters of the first book.

I've made it about 70% through. I'm aiming to finish it by Monday. I've been mostly listening to the audiobook when I drive or before bed and reading on my Kindle paperwhite.

BEWARE: Spoilers from the first 5 chapters!

I think a few of us have read some of the series already. I read half of Eye of the World in high school and never got around to finishing it.

I've heard that the first book feels a lot like reading Lord of the Rings. I'm expecting a lot of classic high fantasy themes like good vs. evil, magic, history and politics. I'm most excited about starting a series that is actually finished!