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Originally Posted by the quiet fox
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.
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Thanks for this description. I've never started
Wheel of Time and for the silliest of reasons. The first time I ever heard of the series, the copy called it the "Whee! of Time." Just a typo or a drop of ink that didn't take or whatever, but I built up certain expectations that finding out the first word was "Wheel" just dashed to the dirt. After that, whenever I noted a discussion of the series, it was attached to words like "interminable."
You just reinforced my intentions to never add that to my TBR furlong. (If boards can be measured in "board feet" the bookshelves can be measured in "book feet." Hence my TBR furlong.)