July 21 ...

[AaronB]

I'll cut the guy some slack, but I'm not cutting the books any. When that series started it was outstanding. The first four were some of the best I've read, period. The rest were utter garbage with brief moments of old glory. Jordan's Wheel of Time is probably the best example I've ever seen of ungodly wasted potential, even outrunning Tad Williams.

I hope the guy gets better, truly. I'd really like him to write something great again.

I'll agree with you that the middle books we a lot of nothing happening. I have to say though that his last book was pretty good and moved the story along to its impending conclusion.

[Lunan]

First off Mr. Jordan said that it would be 13 books shortly after the last book was released. Secondly, he was diagnosed with amyloidosis in march of last year and has been going back and forth to the Mayo Clinic for Chemotherapy through out this past year. So let's cut the guy a bit of slack

well as i went thru all 11 of the main sequence books in order after it was up to 11 (i'm not counting new spring, its a prequal and therefore not part opf the main) i will agree that several of the middle books were a little stagnent, however they did resolve certain threads leading to the final battle that will take place in "A memory of Light" which Mr. Jordan is currently writing (while going back and forth from mayo, which is quite a distance) now having searched thru wiki and dragonmount.com i can't find ANYWHERE that he has said the series will be 13 books. its going to be 12, now he has said he had another 2 pre books in mind which would be 15 if we are talking about the pres as part of the whole.
so where did 13 come from?
on the otherhand he has said he intends to live long enough to write all the books he has in mind and that should be quite a few years

back to the series
it is a trully epic story for the survival of a world
Book 1: The Eye of the World - very tolkienesque intentionally so, good story, and played with some of the basic ideas of fantasy twisting them a bit
Book 2: The Great Hunt - this is about the mental states of people thrown into these situations, very very well told
Book 3: The Dragon Reborn - felt very Dune like to me, enjoyable
Book 4: The Shadow Rising - again very dunelike, advances the overall story quite a bit
Book 5: The Fires of Heaven - this one is about the upheval such events cuase the world in general, and advances the overall story by building up power bases. also the loss of the leading magic user
Book 6: Lord of Chaos - ok this one was too long
Book 7: A Crown of Swords - again powerbases, could argue that certain parts were unneeded
Book 8: The Path of Daggers - this one was a bit annoying
Book 9: Winter's Heart - the main point here was to remove the taint from sidin(sp?) also the style of the writing is diffrent, an experiment gone wrong i think
Book 10: Crossroads of Twilight - this one is the push to the end, this is where bits and peices really start to get laid on the board for the final battle
Book 11: Knife of Dreams - really pushes to the end, clearing up alot of story points

[AaronB]

well as i went thru all 11 of the main sequence books in order after it was up to 11 (i'm not counting new spring, its a prequal and therefore not part opf the main) i will agree that several of the middle books were a little stagnent, however they did resolve certain threads leading to the final battle that will take place in "A memory of Light" which Mr. Jordan is currently writing (while going back and forth from mayo, which is quite a distance) now having searched thru wiki and dragonmount.com i can't find ANYWHERE that he has said the series will be 13 books.

I stand corrected. I was writing that off of the top of my head and thought the number was 13, but I checked dragonmount today and saw it was 12. Thanks for correcting that for me.

[OmahaStar]

So Maggie was interviewed last week, eh? The podcast went online last night, I've listened to the whole thing, and they don't have any interview with it.

[phazedout]

OHS afaik the live feed is one week ahead, however the podcast listed currently (show 53) wasuploaded o February 7th and of course did not include the maggie interview, they haven#t released this week yet.
Phaze
on the "not from what I can gather anyway" ID

[OmahaStar]

OHS afaik the live feed is one week ahead, however the podcast listed currently (show 53) wasuploaded o February 7th and of course did not include the maggie interview, they haven#t released this week yet.
Phaze
on the "not from what I can gather anyway" ID

February 7th is this week. It's yesterday. This would be what they recorded 1/31. Whatever they did last night would be posted 2/14, etc.

[phazedout]

brain off-line OHS apologies, though it was one week later
Phaze
on th e"barely aware of what year it is, let alone what month" ID