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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I've been watching The Wheel of Time with my GF on Amazon Prime. I like (most of) the series and the world up to this point. I'm watching it as "just a fantasy series" without comparing the adaptation to the books. I have them, but haven't read them yet.
The series is good, but I feel it is missing "something"; background information, subplots, etc. (Which isn't strange: the books are 12.500 pages in total. You can't adapt everything.) In short, at the moment, I feel like starting this series instead of finishing "The Coming Race."
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Same here.
I read the first book about 20 years ago and it didn't make a huge impression on me (frankly, felt like just another LOTR clone). When I learned that the TV series was coming, I started on the rest of the books. Liking them so far (the subsequent books are no longer LOTR clones, not even close). I also like the TV series so far, but yeah, they have condensed and changed a lot (and of course, it's not like they had any choice with such a huge series). Still, in general it has stayed more or less true to the books, unlike the Foundation series, which had practically nothing to do with Asimov's books. I actually quit the Foundation halfway through (the TV series, not the book series, that is).