Comments on: Honest, I just borrowed this post. I’ll give it back…. http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/ Dechion's misadventures in the World of Warcraft Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: gnomeaggedon http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-229 gnomeaggedon Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:09:59 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-229 @ Rebecca, just remember the warning.. 1st 1/2 of the 1st book is soooo boring, you will be tearing your hair out. But be warned, turn one page too many, and you wont sleep for a week.. or at least until you read that Rand wishes Matt was about to explain love tactics, and Matt wishes Rand was about to explain love tactics.. and ohh I have to get off that topic... @ Be Nameless The other thing that got me in the end was I would buy the 1,000 pages, finish it that night, then wait 1.5-2 years for the next one.. rereading them all became a drag. I am trying to remember another series I read recently.. just locked myself out of the libraries online catalogue because I couldn't remember my login... I will get back to you... @ Rebecca, just remember the warning.. 1st 1/2 of the 1st book is soooo boring, you will be tearing your hair out. But be warned, turn one page too many, and you wont sleep for a week.. or at least until you read that Rand wishes Matt was about to explain love tactics, and Matt wishes Rand was about to explain love tactics.. and ohh I have to get off that topic…

@ Be Nameless The other thing that got me in the end was I would buy the 1,000 pages, finish it that night, then wait 1.5-2 years for the next one.. rereading them all became a drag.

I am trying to remember another series I read recently.. just locked myself out of the libraries online catalogue because I couldn’t remember my login… I will get back to you…

]]> By: benameless http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-226 benameless Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:56:41 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-226 it is an excellent series, but I am one who gets sucked in as well (that explains Wow). If you are thinking about it I would wait until the last book is in print. I read quickly and I was taking 3-4 days per book on these, particularly the longer ones that are a bit over 1000 pages. it is an excellent series, but I am one who gets sucked in as well (that explains Wow). If you are thinking about it I would wait until the last book is in print.

I read quickly and I was taking 3-4 days per book on these, particularly the longer ones that are a bit over 1000 pages.

]]> By: Rebecca http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-225 Rebecca Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:17:09 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-225 I think I want to read the Jordan series, but I'm scared ... I tend to get swept up into the story and everything else in life is forgotten (the Orclette being an exception, but even she is left to play by herself). And there are 12 books. At least Harry Potter I can finish in 3-4 days .... I think I want to read the Jordan series, but I’m scared … I tend to get swept up into the story and everything else in life is forgotten (the Orclette being an exception, but even she is left to play by herself). And there are 12 books. At least Harry Potter I can finish in 3-4 days ….

]]> By: benameless http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-224 benameless Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:41:54 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-224 @Gnomeaggdon I felt that way for a while as well, but I decided to go ahead and finish reading the series when the 12th and final book comes out. I don't know how having another writer will effect the tempo of the story. He is apparently working off of extensive notes and interviews that he was party to before Mr. Jordan passed away. @Gnomeaggdon I felt that way for a while as well, but I decided to go ahead and finish reading the series when the 12th and final book comes out.

I don’t know how having another writer will effect the tempo of the story. He is apparently working off of extensive notes and interviews that he was party to before Mr. Jordan passed away.

]]> By: gnomeaggedon http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-223 gnomeaggedon Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:23:02 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-223 I *was* an avid Robert Jordan reader (after I got past the 1st half of book 1... I was warned that it was bloody slow up until that point, but after that, I would just consume them, or they would consume me). But after, I can't remember now, book 11, around the time of the "prequel", I just got so tired of his writing, and I just stopped... swore I would never pick up another one of his books. I *was* an avid Robert Jordan reader (after I got past the 1st half of book 1… I was warned that it was bloody slow up until that point, but after that, I would just consume them, or they would consume me).

But after, I can’t remember now, book 11, around the time of the “prequel”, I just got so tired of his writing, and I just stopped… swore I would never pick up another one of his books.

]]> By: benameless http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-222 benameless Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:03:30 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-222 A more interesting one, and one I might visit sometime after I come back from this weekends camping trip woud be seeing what I can come up with for my (insert number here, probably 10 or so) all time favorite books. Hmm, something to ponder while the mosquitoes drain me into a shriveled bump covered husk this weekend. A more interesting one, and one I might visit sometime after I come back from this weekends camping trip woud be seeing what I can come up with for my (insert number here, probably 10 or so) all time favorite books.

Hmm, something to ponder while the mosquitoes drain me into a shriveled bump covered husk this weekend.

]]> By: Anna http://benameless.wordpress.com/2008/08/26/honest-i-just-borrowed-this-post-ill-give-it-back/#comment-221 Anna Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:06:47 +0000 http://benameless.wordpress.com/?p=514#comment-221 I got an interesting comment from The Game Dame on my original post where she attempted to reconcile a lot of what all of us are thinking - the "how did X make the list when Y did not?" - namely, that if this list gets us talking and reading, then it's done its job, even if it's redundant (I believe Hamlet is one of the Complete Works of Wild Bill S.) or overbalanced (surely we don't need ALL those Jane Austen and Dickens books). I got an interesting comment from The Game Dame on my original post where she attempted to reconcile a lot of what all of us are thinking – the “how did X make the list when Y did not?” – namely, that if this list gets us talking and reading, then it’s done its job, even if it’s redundant (I believe Hamlet is one of the Complete Works of Wild Bill S.) or overbalanced (surely we don’t need ALL those Jane Austen and Dickens books).

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