May 08, 04
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So I have figured out that Moridin was Ishamael before being "re-incarnated" but I am still wondering about the rest of them... they could even be Chosen from the Age of Legends that we have not seen before... There is a reference in the book to at least a dozen of them dying during the War of Power...
Everytime I re-read the series, I pick up on so many things that I missed during previous readings... 
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May 08, 04
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last night i decided that i was going to reread it. i'll probably have to buy a few of them though.
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May 13, 04
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Now I am on book 10 of the Wheel of Time - Crossroads of Twilight
1/2 way through, or thereabouts.... so far, not his best writing... a little slow, not much is going on. Oh, and CrookedKing - My theory about Taim being Demandred got blown out of the water a bit after I posted... they are different people.
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May 14, 04
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i love it when writers surprise me like that.
my friend is rereading the wheel of Time, and i have book six with me right now. on my lunch break i read dumai's wells. soooo fucking good.
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May 14, 04
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book ten is crap dude. nothing happens. the whole book could've been done in a few chapters.
i won't totally ruin it for you, but nobody accomplishes anything. book 11 is going to be potent though.
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May 14, 04
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Yeah, I was getting the feeling that this one was the filler book.... which sucks, cause it is going to be at least a year until the next one comes out...
I hope he has them all written and sitting somewhere, cause at the rate this series is progressing, Jordan is going to die long before the final book is released...
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May 14, 04
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i heard a rumour awhile ago that he has cancer. luckily that's all it was.
i just hope he doesn't get hit by a bus or something.
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May 14, 04
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May 14, 04
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i can't wait to read about Tarmon Gai'don.
right now i'm reading "the pendragon chronicles" it's a collection of short stories about...that's right you guessed it! King Arthur.
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May 14, 04
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I just finished a killer book and can't wait to start "A heartbreaking work of staggering genius" by Dave Eggers. i've heard quite a bit of good things about it. seems neat.
tim if you like king arthur stuff i heard that this guy Jack Whyte wrote some good shit. he came to talk to my creative writing class once. had some cool things to say. he had a scottish accent too, can't go wrong with that.
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May 14, 04
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i've met jack whyte before. funny story that...i was reading "a dream of eagles" and he came into my old work and asked me where the bathroom was. i was flabergasted. i find that his books tend to be too "good". you know what i mean? they're kind of unrealistic for the Times and they ALWAYS turn into porn.
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May 14, 04
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porn? really? he doesn't seem the type to write porn.
he knows a hell of a lot about that time period though. or at least that came across in his lecture. i was just listening to his accent though, so i probably missed stuff. that's crazy that he just walked into your work. where do you work?
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May 14, 04
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i was working at super valu in park royal at the Time.
his historical shit is good. the names that he uses for his characters are up to par...but there's something about his books that seem so light and dandy (even though merlyn gets leprosy and sees his Life fade away lol) yeah, "a dream of eagles" is quite pornish. especially book eight.
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May 14, 04
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wow crazy.
yeah that's the thing about some writers that write about historical time periods. they use the language of today, and it doesn't seem to fit. it's hard to pinpoint sometimes why it feels wrong, but then you realize it's because they're writing it with the same language that they'd write a book that is happening in present times.
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May 14, 04
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i think what i didnt' like about it was the fact that there were alot of stupid things that would happen. camulod (camelot) probably wouldn't have existed at that Time. i don't know how to explain it properly at the moment (i've been drinking all night) but if you are looking to get into some good arthurian tales, you can get into "the winter king" by bernard cornwell (i think it was the first book to be mentioned in this thread) or "the once and future king" by some old school author that i've forgotten the name for.
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May 15, 04
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Summer Sisters - Judy Blume! It's such a good book i read it every summer it reminds me of me and an old friend :D
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May 15, 04
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It's sort of a lawn chair or 2 of them. You must read it Jake.
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May 15, 04
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I put down "A Hundred Years of Solitude" by the great Gabriel Garcia Marquez [and quite an awesome book it was] and I have returned to a favourite of mine, Nobel-winner Albert Camus, for his "La Peste" [The Plague]. Wish I had more time to read, but with exams it's kind of hard, right now...
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May 15, 04
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^hey! i bought that book. the solitude one. at a used bookstore.
one of the main reasons i bought it is because it seems like such a big symbol in Bret Easton Ellis' book "Rules of Attraction"...mentioned so many times and eachother the characters reads it once. so i thought i'd buy it.
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