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if you can cast your minds back to before the GAD system changed for the second time and this forum wasn't officially about Books, I wrote a post about Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Aha, I'm back with another post on one of my favourite authors. Now this place is offically for us, I can chat about beardy books. Sod off Goatboy, if you don't like it :-D
I'll be following it up with posts about Goodkind, Peake and, once the movie is long gone, Tolkien. But for now, let's talk about Jordan, for he is a good chap. His series is called the Wheel of Time, and is classic fantasy, with a twist. The nine so far, for he plans more, are:
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
The Lord of Chaos
The Path of Daggers
Crown of Swords
Winter's Heart
Before I get the "elves have pixie dust" argument, there are no elves in it. No dwarves or hobbits either. There is magic though, of a sort. It all revolves around the concept of a "Wheel of Time". It has seven spokes, each representing an Age. It turns constantly, and each Age has come and gone a thousand times. Now, while the book series in set in the Third Age, an age of bows, arrows and swords, there are Ages where technology is where we are now, and Ages were it is still more advanced. This is because of the "Pattern." The Pattern is the course of events for everyone, woven from the souls of everyone. Confused yet?
When the Creator formed the world, he trapped his antithesis, the Dark One, in a mountain known as Shayol Guyl. Every Age the Dark One tries to get free.
Now, the Wheel of Time is powered by the True Source, and it has a female half, saidar, and a male half, saidin. There are those who can touch it and use it to cast spells. They are known as Aes Sedai. The greatest of these is the Dragon, a male channeler who is reborn every Age to fight the Dark One. However, in the Age previous to the one the book is set in, the Dark One was freed. The Dragon, chap by the name of Lews Therin, led 100 of the best channelers, known as Aes Sedai, to trap him. They suceeded, but as he was trapped The Dark One tainted saidin, and ensured every male who touched it would go insane. The Dragon himself went insane, but he bound the Dark One and his most powerful followers, known as The Forsaken. He then proceeded to go mad and kill his wife, poor chap.
Three thousand years later, the world has changed. Only female Aes Sedai survive, and they hunt down any men who can channel. Then, a young man named Rand al'Thor, along with his friends Mat and Perrin are found by a questng Aes Sedai. Rand is the Dragon Reborn, and it is his jon to stop the Dark One escaping. The Forsaken can already escape. The problem is that no-one has channeled saidin for three thousand years. Rand has to learn somehow, but he knows he will go mad...
Thats the central concept, but the delightful thing about this series is that there are so many sub-plots stemming off it - Perrin, for example, is a Wolfbrother, he can talk to wolves. Mat is an acient hero reborn. Rand has three loves - Elayne, Min and Aviendha. They all have sub-plots. My faovurite sub-plot is that of Nynaeve, a young woman from Rand's village who is the most powerful female channeler ever and only Rand is more powerful than her among men. She's a bit angry though, and hates practically everything. Which is great. Oh, she's also in love with the Warder of the Aes Sedai who found Rand, but he's the King of a lost kingdom.....and so on. It's very complicated, and a challenging read. But I love it.
I'd recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy. It's very similiar to Goodkind, so I'd recommend it to Your Honour and Tarrantman. I'd also recommend it to Goatboy, because he'll go mental with all the beardy terms in the book. No dwarves though, Goaty, so only 1 beard on a major character in the whole thing, I think. Yes, take the mick how you like, but remember it's a series I love, and I read a lot of different books. Don't be too quick to judge just because it's got lots of funny names.
Err....and elfs sprinkle pixie dust and Bongo the Dwarf sings about gold and many people mince about going hey nonny no...
Cheers,
Stryke.
I'll be following it up with posts about Goodkind, Peake and, once the movie is long gone, Tolkien. But for now, let's talk about Jordan, for he is a good chap. His series is called the Wheel of Time, and is classic fantasy, with a twist. The nine so far, for he plans more, are:
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
The Lord of Chaos
The Path of Daggers
Crown of Swords
Winter's Heart
Before I get the "elves have pixie dust" argument, there are no elves in it. No dwarves or hobbits either. There is magic though, of a sort. It all revolves around the concept of a "Wheel of Time". It has seven spokes, each representing an Age. It turns constantly, and each Age has come and gone a thousand times. Now, while the book series in set in the Third Age, an age of bows, arrows and swords, there are Ages where technology is where we are now, and Ages were it is still more advanced. This is because of the "Pattern." The Pattern is the course of events for everyone, woven from the souls of everyone. Confused yet?
When the Creator formed the world, he trapped his antithesis, the Dark One, in a mountain known as Shayol Guyl. Every Age the Dark One tries to get free.
Now, the Wheel of Time is powered by the True Source, and it has a female half, saidar, and a male half, saidin. There are those who can touch it and use it to cast spells. They are known as Aes Sedai. The greatest of these is the Dragon, a male channeler who is reborn every Age to fight the Dark One. However, in the Age previous to the one the book is set in, the Dark One was freed. The Dragon, chap by the name of Lews Therin, led 100 of the best channelers, known as Aes Sedai, to trap him. They suceeded, but as he was trapped The Dark One tainted saidin, and ensured every male who touched it would go insane. The Dragon himself went insane, but he bound the Dark One and his most powerful followers, known as The Forsaken. He then proceeded to go mad and kill his wife, poor chap.
Three thousand years later, the world has changed. Only female Aes Sedai survive, and they hunt down any men who can channel. Then, a young man named Rand al'Thor, along with his friends Mat and Perrin are found by a questng Aes Sedai. Rand is the Dragon Reborn, and it is his jon to stop the Dark One escaping. The Forsaken can already escape. The problem is that no-one has channeled saidin for three thousand years. Rand has to learn somehow, but he knows he will go mad...
Thats the central concept, but the delightful thing about this series is that there are so many sub-plots stemming off it - Perrin, for example, is a Wolfbrother, he can talk to wolves. Mat is an acient hero reborn. Rand has three loves - Elayne, Min and Aviendha. They all have sub-plots. My faovurite sub-plot is that of Nynaeve, a young woman from Rand's village who is the most powerful female channeler ever and only Rand is more powerful than her among men. She's a bit angry though, and hates practically everything. Which is great. Oh, she's also in love with the Warder of the Aes Sedai who found Rand, but he's the King of a lost kingdom.....and so on. It's very complicated, and a challenging read. But I love it.
I'd recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy. It's very similiar to Goodkind, so I'd recommend it to Your Honour and Tarrantman. I'd also recommend it to Goatboy, because he'll go mental with all the beardy terms in the book. No dwarves though, Goaty, so only 1 beard on a major character in the whole thing, I think. Yes, take the mick how you like, but remember it's a series I love, and I read a lot of different books. Don't be too quick to judge just because it's got lots of funny names.
Err....and elfs sprinkle pixie dust and Bongo the Dwarf sings about gold and many people mince about going hey nonny no...
Cheers,
Stryke.
Damn straight. Best to read Eye of the World first. Because it's the first one.
You have intrigued me as well.
As soon as I've finished my current book, I shall hunt out a WoT and see what I think.
As soon as I've finished my current book, I shall hunt out a WoT and see what I think.
More, definitely. I was blown away by this book series. Beats Goodkind by miles, I'd say.
POP, because I'd appreciate Tarrantman or YH reading this.
if you can cast your minds back to before the GAD system changed for the second time and this forum wasn't officially about Books, I wrote a post about Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Aha, I'm back with another post on one of my favourite authors. Now this place is offically for us, I can chat about beardy books. Sod off Goatboy, if you don't like it :-D
I'll be following it up with posts about Goodkind, Peake and, once the movie is long gone, Tolkien. But for now, let's talk about Jordan, for he is a good chap. His series is called the Wheel of Time, and is classic fantasy, with a twist. The nine so far, for he plans more, are:
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
The Lord of Chaos
The Path of Daggers
Crown of Swords
Winter's Heart
Before I get the "elves have pixie dust" argument, there are no elves in it. No dwarves or hobbits either. There is magic though, of a sort. It all revolves around the concept of a "Wheel of Time". It has seven spokes, each representing an Age. It turns constantly, and each Age has come and gone a thousand times. Now, while the book series in set in the Third Age, an age of bows, arrows and swords, there are Ages where technology is where we are now, and Ages were it is still more advanced. This is because of the "Pattern." The Pattern is the course of events for everyone, woven from the souls of everyone. Confused yet?
When the Creator formed the world, he trapped his antithesis, the Dark One, in a mountain known as Shayol Guyl. Every Age the Dark One tries to get free.
Now, the Wheel of Time is powered by the True Source, and it has a female half, saidar, and a male half, saidin. There are those who can touch it and use it to cast spells. They are known as Aes Sedai. The greatest of these is the Dragon, a male channeler who is reborn every Age to fight the Dark One. However, in the Age previous to the one the book is set in, the Dark One was freed. The Dragon, chap by the name of Lews Therin, led 100 of the best channelers, known as Aes Sedai, to trap him. They suceeded, but as he was trapped The Dark One tainted saidin, and ensured every male who touched it would go insane. The Dragon himself went insane, but he bound the Dark One and his most powerful followers, known as The Forsaken. He then proceeded to go mad and kill his wife, poor chap.
Three thousand years later, the world has changed. Only female Aes Sedai survive, and they hunt down any men who can channel. Then, a young man named Rand al'Thor, along with his friends Mat and Perrin are found by a questng Aes Sedai. Rand is the Dragon Reborn, and it is his jon to stop the Dark One escaping. The Forsaken can already escape. The problem is that no-one has channeled saidin for three thousand years. Rand has to learn somehow, but he knows he will go mad...
Thats the central concept, but the delightful thing about this series is that there are so many sub-plots stemming off it - Perrin, for example, is a Wolfbrother, he can talk to wolves. Mat is an acient hero reborn. Rand has three loves - Elayne, Min and Aviendha. They all have sub-plots. My faovurite sub-plot is that of Nynaeve, a young woman from Rand's village who is the most powerful female channeler ever and only Rand is more powerful than her among men. She's a bit angry though, and hates practically everything. Which is great. Oh, she's also in love with the Warder of the Aes Sedai who found Rand, but he's the King of a lost kingdom.....and so on. It's very complicated, and a challenging read. But I love it.
I'd recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy. It's very similiar to Goodkind, so I'd recommend it to Your Honour and Tarrantman. I'd also recommend it to Goatboy, because he'll go mental with all the beardy terms in the book. No dwarves though, Goaty, so only 1 beard on a major character in the whole thing, I think. Yes, take the mick how you like, but remember it's a series I love, and I read a lot of different books. Don't be too quick to judge just because it's got lots of funny names.
Err....and elfs sprinkle pixie dust and Bongo the Dwarf sings about gold and many people mince about going hey nonny no...
Cheers,
Stryke.
I'll be following it up with posts about Goodkind, Peake and, once the movie is long gone, Tolkien. But for now, let's talk about Jordan, for he is a good chap. His series is called the Wheel of Time, and is classic fantasy, with a twist. The nine so far, for he plans more, are:
The Eye of the World
The Great Hunt
The Dragon Reborn
The Shadow Rising
The Fires of Heaven
The Lord of Chaos
The Path of Daggers
Crown of Swords
Winter's Heart
Before I get the "elves have pixie dust" argument, there are no elves in it. No dwarves or hobbits either. There is magic though, of a sort. It all revolves around the concept of a "Wheel of Time". It has seven spokes, each representing an Age. It turns constantly, and each Age has come and gone a thousand times. Now, while the book series in set in the Third Age, an age of bows, arrows and swords, there are Ages where technology is where we are now, and Ages were it is still more advanced. This is because of the "Pattern." The Pattern is the course of events for everyone, woven from the souls of everyone. Confused yet?
When the Creator formed the world, he trapped his antithesis, the Dark One, in a mountain known as Shayol Guyl. Every Age the Dark One tries to get free.
Now, the Wheel of Time is powered by the True Source, and it has a female half, saidar, and a male half, saidin. There are those who can touch it and use it to cast spells. They are known as Aes Sedai. The greatest of these is the Dragon, a male channeler who is reborn every Age to fight the Dark One. However, in the Age previous to the one the book is set in, the Dark One was freed. The Dragon, chap by the name of Lews Therin, led 100 of the best channelers, known as Aes Sedai, to trap him. They suceeded, but as he was trapped The Dark One tainted saidin, and ensured every male who touched it would go insane. The Dragon himself went insane, but he bound the Dark One and his most powerful followers, known as The Forsaken. He then proceeded to go mad and kill his wife, poor chap.
Three thousand years later, the world has changed. Only female Aes Sedai survive, and they hunt down any men who can channel. Then, a young man named Rand al'Thor, along with his friends Mat and Perrin are found by a questng Aes Sedai. Rand is the Dragon Reborn, and it is his jon to stop the Dark One escaping. The Forsaken can already escape. The problem is that no-one has channeled saidin for three thousand years. Rand has to learn somehow, but he knows he will go mad...
Thats the central concept, but the delightful thing about this series is that there are so many sub-plots stemming off it - Perrin, for example, is a Wolfbrother, he can talk to wolves. Mat is an acient hero reborn. Rand has three loves - Elayne, Min and Aviendha. They all have sub-plots. My faovurite sub-plot is that of Nynaeve, a young woman from Rand's village who is the most powerful female channeler ever and only Rand is more powerful than her among men. She's a bit angry though, and hates practically everything. Which is great. Oh, she's also in love with the Warder of the Aes Sedai who found Rand, but he's the King of a lost kingdom.....and so on. It's very complicated, and a challenging read. But I love it.
I'd recommend it to anyone who loves fantasy. It's very similiar to Goodkind, so I'd recommend it to Your Honour and Tarrantman. I'd also recommend it to Goatboy, because he'll go mental with all the beardy terms in the book. No dwarves though, Goaty, so only 1 beard on a major character in the whole thing, I think. Yes, take the mick how you like, but remember it's a series I love, and I read a lot of different books. Don't be too quick to judge just because it's got lots of funny names.
Err....and elfs sprinkle pixie dust and Bongo the Dwarf sings about gold and many people mince about going hey nonny no...
Cheers,
Stryke.