The Wheel of Time Turns
Jul. 24th, 2022 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kraitThe Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, but Book 4 is eternal.
Which is to say, I've technically made progress in my Wheel of Time rereading, because the last post I made about it mentioned my being in Book 2, but Book 4 certainly feels like I've been reading it forever.
On the bright side, Rand has made it Rhuidean and got his final markings - two at once, this time, also thankfully, so that tiny subplot is wound up - and Egwene now has a teacher for Dreaming, and Mat has some murky prophecies about himself. Progress! Now to find out what Couladin and the Shaido are going to do, because I've forgotten how that turns out but I vaguely feel that it was important.
On the less bright side, there is way too much Mat in this book, and also way too much of... whatever the Weird Thing going on about Aviendha and Elayne's respective feelings toward Rand and each other is (my answer: tiresome) that results in a whole lot of Very Jordan Gender Takes. Sigh. I don't know how many more bookfuls of this I can take.
I also don't remember what the deal is with the peddler who turns up, but I'm assuming at least one of the women with him is one of the Forsaken, if not all three of them.
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Which is to say, I've technically made progress in my Wheel of Time rereading, because the last post I made about it mentioned my being in Book 2, but Book 4 certainly feels like I've been reading it forever.
On the bright side, Rand has made it Rhuidean and got his final markings - two at once, this time, also thankfully, so that tiny subplot is wound up - and Egwene now has a teacher for Dreaming, and Mat has some murky prophecies about himself. Progress! Now to find out what Couladin and the Shaido are going to do, because I've forgotten how that turns out but I vaguely feel that it was important.
On the less bright side, there is way too much Mat in this book, and also way too much of... whatever the Weird Thing going on about Aviendha and Elayne's respective feelings toward Rand and each other is (my answer: tiresome) that results in a whole lot of Very Jordan Gender Takes. Sigh. I don't know how many more bookfuls of this I can take.
I also don't remember what the deal is with the peddler who turns up, but I'm assuming at least one of the women with him is one of the Forsaken, if not all three of them.
Behold, an icon!
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Date: 2023-05-13 05:23 pm (UTC)Now I'm older, and having watched the first season of the show and realized that actually, I like the changes they made, getting rid of a lot of the AUGH TEENAGE ANGST will-they won't-they romance teasing and bizarrely unobservant jealousy. I tried to reread them afterward, and couldn't!
Have you watched the show?
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Date: 2023-05-14 10:52 pm (UTC)I haven't seen the show, but a coworker of mine was really into it, so I've heard about some of the changes; they all seem pretty well-done (for a change - so often TV shows have to reduce complexity). Making Rand's central rejection of going dark centre on recognising that Egwene is a person with her own desires sounds like an A+ change, particularly. Jordan's extreme 'Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus' form of gender wankery in the books drove me up a wall when I tried to reread them; I've basically tapped out at this point, and I made it to somewhere in the middle of Book 5.