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I'm stuck halfway through Deepness in the Sky, I should pick it up again. Also stuck on book 8 of the Wheel of Time series, I was like 5 chapters in and didn't

I'm stuck halfway through Deepness in the Sky, I should pick it up again. Also stuck on book 8 of the Wheel of Time series, I was like 5 chapters in and didn't pick up a single thread I cared about from the previous book. Agree about the expert omission part.

komaromy 3y ago
Deepness was well worth it. Wheel of Time, on the other hand, I was very glad to give up on right around the same point as you.
joshstrange 3y ago
I think WoT is worth pushing through, you got stuck in the same spot a number of people do. There is definitely a lull there. Many times I've considered re-cutting the books/audio-books for WoT to remove what I find to a be drudgery but it would be a massive task that I'm not up to. I just skip over the parts in my re-reads of the series. I'll be the first to say that WoT has /many/ flaws but it will forever hold a special place in my heart. You just have to get past the way women are written in the series (and I understand if you can't). That's something else I'd be happy to prune out or ideally fix but that's well beyond my skill set. Elaine and Egwene especially are horribly written in the last few books (and it's not all Brandon Sanderson's fault I assume, they aren't great in the prior books either).
hinkley 3y ago
Book eight may have been about when I gave up and sold the set. The dull bit in the middle of each book is when I would practice my speed reading. About once a season I contemplate the idea of approaching either Sanderson or the Jordan estate and ask that they consider an abridged edition edited by Sanderson. You could easily knock 1500 pages out of this series and not change a single thing. Meanwhile Rosamund Pike is doing new audio books for the series and the samples sound much better than the old one. But the first one is about forty hours. As much as I might like to claim that I would listen to her read a phone book, I don’t think I can listen to 600 hours of audiobooks for one series.
bolasanibk 3y ago
Aah! The infamous ‘slog’ for the WOT series. Book 10 is where things pick up again my opinion.
lll-o-lll 3y ago
Yes, the self indulgence reached record heights by timing death before completion. Just so we could have infinite fields of boring politics. In the paperbacks, each chapter with the “bad guys” had a special symbol on it, so I just skipped through the middle books reading only those. Fortunately the Dark One was still trying to progress the plot, and I don’t think I missed much.

komaromy 3y ago

Deepness was well worth it. Wheel of Time, on the other hand, I was very glad to give up on right around the same point as you.

joshstrange 3y ago

I think WoT is worth pushing through, you got stuck in the same spot a number of people do. There is definitely a lull there. Many times I've considered re-cutting the books/audio-books for WoT to remove what I find to a be drudgery but it would be a massive task that I'm not up to. I just skip over the parts in my re-reads of the series. I'll be the first to say that WoT has /many/ flaws but it will forever hold a special place in my heart. You just have to get past the way women are written in the series (and I understand if you can't). That's something else I'd be happy to prune out or ideally fix but that's well beyond my skill set. Elaine and Egwene especially are horribly written in the last few books (and it's not all Brandon Sanderson's fault I assume, they aren't great in the prior books either).

hinkley 3y ago

Book eight may have been about when I gave up and sold the set. The dull bit in the middle of each book is when I would practice my speed reading. About once a season I contemplate the idea of approaching either Sanderson or the Jordan estate and ask that they consider an abridged edition edited by Sanderson. You could easily knock 1500 pages out of this series and not change a single thing. Meanwhile Rosamund Pike is doing new audio books for the series and the samples sound much better than the old one. But the first one is about forty hours. As much as I might like to claim that I would listen to her read a phone book, I don’t think I can listen to 600 hours of audiobooks for one series.

bolasanibk 3y ago

Aah! The infamous ‘slog’ for the WOT series. Book 10 is where things pick up again my opinion.

lll-o-lll 3y ago

Yes, the self indulgence reached record heights by timing death before completion. Just so we could have infinite fields of boring politics. In the paperbacks, each chapter with the “bad guys” had a special symbol on it, so I just skipped through the middle books reading only those. Fortunately the Dark One was still trying to progress the plot, and I don’t think I missed much.