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Originally Posted by taosaur
I'm a little surprised, but Stormlight seems to have been an effective break from The Wheel of Time. I jumped right back into book nine with more interest than I'd left it, and managed to recall most of the vast panoply of characters and nations. I can't say I'm seeing the repetitiveness some people criticize, at least not in the plot. It does seem like one story unfolding, with the characters developing in light of their expanding roles in their world. The "battle of the sexes" shtick gets old, but the handling of prophesy and fatedness in the story is reasonably satisfying, where fatey-watey storylines are usually a pet peeve of mine in fantasy.
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I was never really able to get into the Wheel of Time audio books. I have the first two, but there are large sections of the Wheel of Time books that I would simply scan through and you can't really do that with audio books. Even with the second book, I found myself becoming impatient at times for the story to move along. As the series goes along, there are larger and larger swaths of story that come across to me as verbiage that doesn't move the story along. Oddly enough, I consider the first book, The Wheel of Time, to be one of the best fantasy book that I've read and re-read it a lot.