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Old 09-07-2017, 09:40 AM   #26370
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I remember reading that when it came out. There is a direct connection between it and my reflexive loathing for the Wheel of Time series. (Seriously. No lie.)
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Can you elaborate?
Sure, but you may be disappointed.

When TWL was published, I was reading the Fidonet SFF discussion area, commonly called SFLIT because of its focus on books instead of media. I didn't have a PC at the time, only an Apple II clone, which meant offline reading was not an option... and this being a reasonably high-traffic national echo (that's what we called discussion areas where messages were exchanged between multiple BBS systems), keeping up with traffic meant dealing with about 130 messages per day.

In the space of sixty minutes. When quoting messages meant typing the quoted parts manually, because no ANSI support meant I could only use the primitive line editor to compose messages. This was not a small task.

Anyway, at the time, there were two major discussion topics: TWL, which I was quite interested in following, and Wheel of Time, which I was rather not. At first, the Wheel topic was just a nuisance, but as it grew, so did my impatience at having to skip past more and more of "those damned Wheel of Time posts" that were burning up my daily time limit... and eventually impatience evolved into annoyance, finally approaching hatred.

Classic aversion therapy, really. Intellectually, I know better than to blame the books or the author for the circumstance, but the reflexive reaction remains.

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Finished Burn Baby Burn, a tale of life, death, pain and redemption.
FYI, there's a third book in the series now. Found out when I saw the short-term giveaway on Nobody Gets the Girl.
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