i think the ebook and the audio are on the 10th
― gray star, a settlement in the remotest northwest (Lamp), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
where are you seeing kidle ed for the 10th? link pls!
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 7 January 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
Amazon shows audio book as out tomorrow.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 January 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
11,004 pages4,056,130 words*419h 30m audio7,013 frustrated braid tugs by nynaeve
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
I've listened to them all as audiobooks. I have no idea how to spell 90% of the names.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
we have no idea how they're pronounced
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
never mind yr audiobook
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
Audible had it this morning. Listening begins.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 13:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://lifehacker.com/231955/how-to-crack-password+protected-pdfs
a fuck this shit and fuck random house
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
or tor or whoever. really determined not to pay for this book
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
apparently it's because his missus doesn't like ebooks and true readers curl up around books by a roaring fire
pmb, ma'am. pmdb.
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
ludicrously big hardback bought. Doing it the right way
― Number None, Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
they had zero copies of this at my local B&N, which I find totally crazypants
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'm about 10 hours into the audiobook. Pretty good so far.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Is it because they were sold out or because they didn't order any? It seems pretty stupid not to have ordered any.
― Solange and thanks for all the fish (Nicole), Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
b&n is kinda flailing, might have something to do with it
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 January 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
was hoping to have my copy arrive yesterday, have to wait till tuesday sadly. painful.
― H in Addis, Thursday, 10 January 2013 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
its on my kindle atm.
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Thursday, 10 January 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
anyone else finished this yet?
― once & future (Lamp), Friday, 11 January 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
about a third of the way through, it's proving a very quick read. General impressions?
― Number None, Friday, 11 January 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
its a long blur i think, and reliably disappointing. there are some genuinely emotional moments and a lot more that seemed mired in crowd-pleasing. like i said above any ending is going be a let down nevermind one not even written by jordan.
― once & future (Lamp), Friday, 11 January 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
there is a bit of a box-ticking feel about it so far. Making sure all those prophecies are taken care of etc.
― Number None, Friday, 11 January 2013 20:04 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't read this yet (ill be damned if I buy the physical copy) but to be fair to Sanderson this book was always liable to be box ticking and cleaning up the narrative sprawl. Can't imagine Jordan could have wrapped things up satisfactorily in 3 books either (not that he'd done a satisfactory job of getting things to the point he left them either.)
― ryan, Friday, 11 January 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
if the boxes are all ticked and i get a bit of oomph at the end i'll settle for that tbh.
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Saturday, 12 January 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
My B&N didn't have any, because we sold 60 of them in about 5 hours. In the old days, a store like ours might have had 500.
But the publishers and the chain stores can't take a chance on sending 400 hundred back because they guessed wrong.
― Zachary Taylor, Sunday, 13 January 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
this arrived in the mail today, thanking u Amazon
― DJP, Sunday, 13 January 2013 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
I had forgotten Aram existed, lol
― DJP, Sunday, 13 January 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
hope it's not SPOILERY to say
I'm 70% through and still waiting for anyone important to die ffs
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
his attempts to do comedy dialogue are horrible. At least Jordan never really bothered
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
and i couldn't care less about all these interchangeable trolloc battles
i spose the point is they're happening everwhere all at once and it's kind of a thing so
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but there's no real sense of scale or peril for me
― Number None, Monday, 14 January 2013 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
cos nobody dies and tbh there seems to be (throughout the series tbf) a wavering line on whether a fade or trolloc is a big fuckun deal or not
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Monday, 14 January 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
fuckit
That was actually awesome
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
o rly
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
i'm prepared to go on record, yeah. flawed- everything lamp says above is true and fair- rushed in places, lazy cliffhangers abound,
SPOILERS
far too many ppl survive, shit's cuddly as fuck tbh
/SPOILERS
but fuckit, that was awesome
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 02:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, entering the endgame. It's kinda getting me
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
ok let's finish it up there foljs, i've got a few questions
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 09:45 (eleven years ago) link
gonna remove bookmark from thread until the ebook comes out. spoilerize away!
― ryan, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
Finished. Back to being underwhelmed
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
ah now
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
ryan i tried to webmail you but not sure it worked?
― let's bitch about our stupid, annoying co-ilxors (darraghmac), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
such as?
i think the only thing that was bad in a way it didn't have to be was the illogical pseudo-philosophy of rands confrontation w/the dark one. feel like there was a lot of room for something just... better there, partic one that didnt seem to triviliaze the series own eschatology. also the book was too ambitious and too limited - introducing so many new or essentially new characters and concepts was a poor choice but it also was too narrowly focused on the battle itself - like i wanted the the entire sweep of the wheel or something in there, not just dudes killing trollocs over and over again.
mostly i just feel weird about the series being over
― once & future (Lamp), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
no I don't think it did!
― ryan, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
Rand's visions during his fight with the Dark One were really corny
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
otm
I wanted a scrap with ba'alzamon as ishamael rendered him in the first few books, not a secondary school debate with a capslock.
Srsly, was that it for alivia? Smdh. That was rushed as well.
Smdh perrin/faile, again. Thought he was prophesised to die btw?
Smdh everyone surviving cept the obv two.
Ryan- gimme a mail at darraghmac @ gmail
― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 08:06 (eleven years ago) link
He kinda bungled the few deaths there were too. Apart from the big one, which was the best moment in the book. If you're not paying attention you can easily miss stuff like the end of my bro Shaidar Haran
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
rand dreamed most of the deaths, it was p much chris tolkien shoehorning of scraps jordan had written, i guess
Yeah, major death the best moment by a distance, prob rivalled only by demandred in general, who was p. boss throughout.
lol moridin, nae'blis of the year now he's a cunt.
Presumably his soul gets recycled like everyone else's, no last wish for u bro
― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 January 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I finished. 40+ hours of listening to interminable battle sequence after battle sequence. They sort of all blurred together by the end as I waited for things to happen. A little anti-climactic, and I agree some stuff was rushed and other stuff went on forever.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 17 January 2013 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
agreed there were a whole mess of problems with this but overall the balance of gangster shit to dumb shit was favorable.
a big part of what i love(d) about RJ was he seemed occasionally to think about what people would actually do with all this wacky magic. cf the end of lord of chaos. branderson sanderson, for all his stupid fucking mormon bullshit and shitty writing, thinks the same way.
are we going whole hog spoiler in this thread yet?
― adam, Thursday, 17 January 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link