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I decided I wanted to give Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series another shot, after giving up on it about 10 years back, so I picked up the first book, The Eye of the World, from Amazon a few weeks ago.
Well, that was a mistake. Not only does the e-book look like an OCR rush job with little or no additional proofreading (in addition to other improbable errors, I've lost track of how many times the word "whatever" appears initial-capped in the middle of a sentence) but it also seems I have a lot less patience for Jordan's interminable style than I did when I was a teenager. (And since I was a teenager when I stopped reading the series the first time, obviously I didn't have enough patience then either.) So I guess the question here would be... what was I thinking? I'll finish the book, but I'm pretty sure I won't be picking up any further entries.
After I slog through that, I've got Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood waiting for me. I peeked at the beginning and I'm excited to read more.
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