Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
A "friend" bought me the first nine for my birthday.

I read the lot. Duck knows why.
Nothing.
Ever.
Ducking.
Happens.

On and on and on and on they go filling volume after volume with an average, at best, story. Its like he got the concept of Chapter and Volume mixed up. Yup, that's it. What should take a chapter to tell, fills a whole book.

I could summarize the first 9 in 500 words more than adequately. In fact, if you are ever curious about these books, I recommend you just read the summary on the back cover of the paperback. That might compress the "events" sufficiently to make an engaging short story.

These books taught me the importance of giving up on a bad thing. I've never given up on a book that I have started before but next time I get bored of a read I'll dump it. I read all the WOT books I had, desperate for something to happen but it never did.

I don't care if Matt married the Daughter of the Nine Moons and I hope the bloody Dragon Reborn does go mad and magic everyone into blue smoke.
Robert Jordan - you stole 9 books worth of my life and I'm glad you are dead.

P.S. why not include a link to your favourite book on Amazon so I can buy something decent to read?
(Rich T has a clever and witty sig, Fri 16 May 2008, 15:54, 4 replies)

fund raiser
I'm sure Amazon have a scheme where you earn money from referrals so posters, or b3ta, could earn some cash.
I'm so full of bright ideas that I will have to be careful that my
foot doesn't fall off.
(Rich T has a clever and witty sig, Fri 16 May 2008, 16:40, closed)

stayer
You did better than me. I didn't make it past the end of book 4
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 16 May 2008, 23:00, closed)

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i couldn't make it past the first 12 pages of book 1.. and i'm an avid reader
(brotagaia, Wed 21 May 2008, 13:04, closed)