The Wheel of Time......

[TheRogue]

.....keeps on turning.....

Brandon Sanderson has taken the first step in completing Robert Jordan's saga.

I just finished Book 12, The Gathering Storm, which is one of 3 it will take to finish the series.

Pros:

Finally, the series will be finished.
Sanderson is keeping to the story line
Finally, the series will be finished.

Cons:

He ain't Robert Jordan

I haven't decided if I don't like Sanderson's writing style....or I am just having a hard time with putting that style it into the end of a mammoth epic that has been written by a different person for over a decade. While the story line is going to stay true (Jordan had outlined the rest, with the ending already done, before he died), he's completetly changed how many characters are portrayed, and the flow of their lives and interactions.

Again, not saying it's "bad" per se, but it is very tough to get used to.

Let's finish this series and get it over with, it's really too bad that Jordan couldn't have done it.

TR

[lingslayer]

It is definitely too bad RJ couldn't finish it, I agree totally.
Brandon's work is pretty darn good though. It might help if you read some of his stuff first if you haven't. (I guess it's too late for that huh)
Brandon's Mistborn series is a good one. Very original and a unique concept.

Now if George R.R. Martin would just finish the Song of Ice and Fire series!

[baltz526]

Guess i need to catch up. i think i have read the first 5 or 6

[rum runner]

Maybe they can cut out some of the fluff that seemed to infiltrate the last 3 or 4 books. I think Jordan lost his touch on this series by book 5 and should have wrapped it up long ago. That said, I will probably be a sucker and read the rest...

[TheRogue]

yeah, it's bad......I read the first two in paperback, and since then, have been buying in hardback so I can get them quicker. Went back and got the first two in hardback to make the set.......now I have all 12. TOOOO much money sitting in my book case!