tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post221917156669625670..comments2023-10-25T03:40:54.655-07:00Comments on Neth Space: A Memory of Light Spoiler ReactionsNethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963540055415924510noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-83298104148364866062013-10-29T07:03:27.799-07:002013-10-29T07:03:27.799-07:00I chanced upon your review and I liked it. I gener...I chanced upon your review and I liked it. I generally agreed with everything you said. However, after reading AMoL a few times again I still don't understand: What was the Dark One's plan with the world? Conquest?Chris Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002580588619700058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-60388950200972169802013-02-25T07:53:58.800-07:002013-02-25T07:53:58.800-07:00Personnally I was really sad by the deaths of Siua...Personnally I was really sad by the deaths of Siuan and Bryne . I did not like Siuan at first but after a moment the character grew on me and I really liked to follow her romance with Bryne , I agree that we could have had a little point of view from Bryne . <br /><br />Thinking about it , there were many romance and I think Jordan/Sanderson chose not to chose too much of love moments (sad not to see Nynaeve finding out Lan was alive , no point of view of Tuon if she was worried for Mat -he came back in the Seachan's empire just because of her- no Berelain & Galad after the battle etc , I'm actually a little sad about it)<br /><br />I would have loved to have a little stuff such as : ten years later : Rand , what live will he have ? Elayne or Min ? How the nations will fare together ? The Seachans ?<br /><br />I really liked Mat in it , such a badass ! <br /><br />It is so weird to know that there is will be no more Aes Sedai , channelers people , Dragon Reborn etc, that's the really really end . And a very good one , the three buddies survived and their love interets , too . Of the two girls , one died ...<br /><br />snif snif , I'm wuite sad to leave everyone , I took so much pleasure reading The Wheel of Time for ten years ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-91871069810105860952013-02-07T09:01:42.124-07:002013-02-07T09:01:42.124-07:00Let me start with that I love the way the series e...Let me start with that I love the way the series ended. I started to read it several years ago at the age of around 30, but that gave me the opportunity to read without waiting until the final 3 books. Now that it's over I really feel like this is the way it should end.<br />The only thing, but it's a big one, that really annoys me is the absolutely blunt, not-in-the-least-clever way the war was handled and especially the use of the one power in combat. Almost the whole book is battle scenes and yet they are all almost the same. Is it just me, that is utterly annoyed by it? I mean, come on, it's like having laser guns and using them as knives by a couple of villagers. I thought that we'll get some real clever, inventive L vs S power fights - the only exceptions were Androl and Egwene at her death. Most of the time there was constant bombardment with fire, earth and lightning, while it was shown how little effort it would take to stop one's heart. It was so obvious that this fight should go channelers against channelers and other part of the armies to fight on more equal ground. There were virtually no one-on-one battles between the most powerful channelers. No Wise Ones against the Forsaken in the World of Dreams? With so many powerful characters I was expecting far more such duels, while in reality we got around 5. How many Dreadlords were there, given that a bunch of beaten-down, not-so-powerful, not-very-well-trained guys drove them away from the Black Tower? What exactly was Mat's battle plan - waiting for Demandred's death? Why there was no use of the Blood Knives in this battle. Instead we got the rushing teenager Gawyn the only one that came with the thought of using such trick attempting to put the powerful leaders of the opposition down? And all this while having several attempts from Fades to do exactly that? I can continue with the list.<br /><br />Regards,<br />zzzoronAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-15738129145414473072013-01-31T22:40:31.674-07:002013-01-31T22:40:31.674-07:00Am I the only one who thinks Sanderson over use th...Am I the only one who thinks Sanderson over use the word "tempest"?<br />Been annoying me ever since he took over. <br />He's close to using "tempest" like the Smurfs are using "smurf" (slight exaggeration ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-12147671141512811132013-01-19T10:50:29.017-07:002013-01-19T10:50:29.017-07:00Why didn't the aes Sendai and aashamen form a ...Why didn't the aes Sendai and aashamen form a full circle too?<br /><br />Where did a million trollocs come from?<br /><br />How many men can a 9 foot, 500 pound trolloc slay?<br /><br />Why fight parallel battles when you will lose all three? Should have massed the channellers together and focused on killing the enemy channellers . Maybe the authors could have consulted a real general before attempting to write a huge campaign<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-51224040865392565912013-01-19T10:42:02.254-07:002013-01-19T10:42:02.254-07:00How can Rand leave his dad like that at the end?
...How can Rand leave his dad like that at the end?<br /><br />Incongruent character. Tam ought to slap his ass!<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-67972944923549037242013-01-19T10:37:30.619-07:002013-01-19T10:37:30.619-07:00Now that we know the story maybe someone can re-wr...Now that we know the story maybe someone can re-write the books into 5 or six volumes!<br /><br />Candidates for elimination or truncation:<br />1. Savanna and Shaido. Total waste of time, no impact and annoying. When did Faile and Perrin get payback?<br />2. Eliada. Same. All the annoying angr moments building up to nothing. Would like to see her and Egwene go a round or two<br />3. Knitting circle. Hello, we supposedly had a thousand channel ears in waiting. Where did they go?<br />4. Dresses. Who cares what color or how low?<br />5. Slayer. Cut him from 600 pages down to 20.<br />6. Valan Luca<br /> Ok I think I just cut out 6 effective novels worth of frustration and wasted reader time. <br />I believe it's called editing, but this weave was not discovered in the third ageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-22517928734153271932013-01-16T13:33:46.060-07:002013-01-16T13:33:46.060-07:00I agree that there are too many loose ends...mainl...I agree that there are too many loose ends...mainly, Rand wonders to himself which of his women will follow him. How exactly are the Queen of Andor, the Truthsayer of the Seanchan Empire, and a leading wise one of the Aiel going to just leave and hang out with some guy? So for the rest of their lives they're going to feel him somewhere in the world and NOT go to him? I don't get it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-25609050837372617572013-01-14T17:04:14.427-07:002013-01-14T17:04:14.427-07:00I thought the book was ok. I would give it 7 out o...I thought the book was ok. I would give it 7 out of 10. What i would have liked to see more of was the aes sedai. We were told all of these names throughout the series, i thought we could have more details of their deaths.<br />More characters should have died. I am glad eg an gw did. I was surprised that major charcters could actually be killed off. It was something like a bad joke in the series- the number of times the good guys were kidnapped but not killed was ridiculous. <br />As for shara- well, there were more and more mentions of shara in the last five books. It was a great surprise to the readers. Many more ridiculous things have happened before.<br /><br />My maincriticism, well too many gateways, it made the battle so hard to picture. I would have loved to have seen the dome put over the main fight. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-26769465739590167152013-01-14T13:16:56.748-07:002013-01-14T13:16:56.748-07:00"I want more"
No truer words were spoke..."I want more"<br /><br />No truer words were spoken. And why do you want more? Because THERE ARE TOO MANY LOOSE ENDS! I could fill two pages with things that were left unresolved. "But it's a huge universe," you might say. "How can you possibly resolve everything?"<br /><br />IT'S A 900+ PAGE BOOK! AND THE SAME THING PEOPLE ARE SAYING OVER AND OVER AGAIN IS, "I WANT MORE." ... Not a very ringing endorsement. <br /><br />I want to love the book. I want to love the great moments that are throughout. But it's hard to love something when it's laced with negatives. At best, that makes this mediocre.<br /><br />A generation-defining series such as The Wheel of Time deserves a better send-off. Team Jordan and Team Tor had the time and the resources to make it happen, and they came up short. As gifted as a writer as Sanderson is, I feel somewhat that he didn't fully commit to this project. He had other books of his own that he just had to get out. I don't know the particulars behind the scenes, but I'm left wondering if perhaps some of those unanswered questions might have been addressed if he'd given his full, undivided attention to it. <br /><br />TopherBobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-28967847408457604282013-01-12T14:24:57.548-07:002013-01-12T14:24:57.548-07:00Linda, there was a very brief mention of Kari al&#...Linda, there was a very brief mention of Kari al'Thor. It was in one of Tam's POVs near the end, where he thinks of having to live all those years without Kari. I actually thought it was perfect. Enough to show how important she was to him, how ever-present in his mind, yet also long ago and life moving on. Dunno. I liked that piece.Norahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001952910081058448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-67712994663915201702013-01-07T18:57:33.694-07:002013-01-07T18:57:33.694-07:00I thank you for the on target review, Ken. On the...I thank you for the on target review, Ken. On the whole, my quibbles parallel your own. Why on EARTH do you take a character like Moiraine, who after all, -with Siuan- instigated this whole thing. Make her central to it, then (ostensibly) kill her off. Only to discover that she ISN'T dead and let that hang over everything for what, 8, 9 books? And then give her virtually nothing to do, once she re-appears? <br /><br />The armies of The Light math, was Brobdingnagianly wrong! Did no one have a bloody calculator? Not to mention, just how DO you feed an army of over 1 million Trollocs for however long they just chilled, whereEVER they were chilling?<br /><br />And Shara as Demandred's power base, well it blew. It was deux ex machina of the worst kind. And yeah, the dude gave Batshit crazy a bad name. <br /><br />The other grimace worthy moment was Mellor appearing in the middle of the LB to off Birgitte and threaten Queen Snot/Snit. I understand, THAT'S why he got away w/the medallion but crikey it felt contrived as all hell. Since when did Demmie become the world's greatest blademaster?<br /><br />Anyway, yeah, all over, all done.<br /><br />ThanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-58853738910035553282013-01-07T18:06:24.244-07:002013-01-07T18:06:24.244-07:00Actually, the last word is 'time':
THE EN...Actually, the last word is 'time':<br /><br />THE END OF THE LAST BOOK OF THE WHEEL OF TIME.<br /><br />:-P<br /><br />It could also be argued to be 'Gone' from Loial's final quotation<br /><br />My primary problem with the book is simple inconstistencies with what has gone before. Most notably, the fact that there is absolutely nowhere near as many troops on the page as the Light should be able to raise, and definitely nowhere near enough channellers. The Light only has a few hundred at the battles when they should command thousands.<br /><br />Somethat was really weird was someone saying that a few dozen Asha'man cannot defeat 100,000 Trollocs alone. Yet they did in KoD. I can only conclude this was directive from Team Jordan that Sanderson objected to, otherwise lampshading it like that was a silly idea.Adam Whiteheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383677312079611311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-73128809235172438152013-01-07T17:47:51.222-07:002013-01-07T17:47:51.222-07:00@Matjess - Tor provided me a review copy about a m...@Matjess - Tor provided me a review copy about a month ago. A number of other bloggers and mediea outlets received early copies.Nethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963540055415924510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-46539220219802093692013-01-07T17:42:21.329-07:002013-01-07T17:42:21.329-07:00I haven't read it yet... couldn't help mys...I haven't read it yet... couldn't help myself just had to read the spoilers. No matter, it just made me more ravenous to read it. But I have to say I'm curious. How did you and apparently others get the book AND READ IT before the release date? Wish I was in that purple circle. P.S. Enjoyed the review.Matjessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-39730916354852241062013-01-07T16:56:23.961-07:002013-01-07T16:56:23.961-07:00@Suttree - I didn't have a problem getting int...@Suttree - I didn't have a problem getting into the book, but then even a WOT book by Sanderson has never had issues with keeping me immersed.<br /><br />@Linda - I also really regret that nothing further came of Verin and all that she revealed. As Dom has discussed in detail, Mat's actions were not so great and his stubborn pride caused a lot of harm that should have been avoided - not to mention that Mat is character that Sanderson has always had trouble with.<br /><br />While I left my theorizing behind long ago, I do recall many discussions on Mat no longer being bound to the horn. I was happy to see and happy to see Olver as the hornsounder. Also as Dom has discussed, the Horn of Valere was one of the best arcs of the AMOL, though it's overshadowed by the 'action' of the others.Nethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963540055415924510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-44298571696777806472013-01-07T16:50:39.228-07:002013-01-07T16:50:39.228-07:00Very nice, Ken.
I regret the lack of mention of V...Very nice, Ken.<br /><br />I regret the lack of mention of Verin (even via her letters) or Kari al'Thor.<br /><br />Also Didn't think that Moiraine's role was worth letting Caemlyn burn and Verin die.<br /><br />BTW, put me down as one who asked if Mat was still bound to the horn. Didn't ask myself who else would blow it though.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14767984732078916662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17224228.post-39337684042733788242013-01-07T16:31:46.703-07:002013-01-07T16:31:46.703-07:00Great review Neth. I agree with a great many thing...Great review Neth. I agree with a great many things. Have to say I really struggled up until aroun page 400 or so. From there things got better quickly. Had a ton of trouble immersing myself and so much of the dialog was wooden. Literally zero distinction between characters at times. Also had problems with the 4th wall being broken. Regardless loved the actio and the end. Fitting for sure.Suttreenoreply@blogger.com