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GRRM needs to just hire Sanderson as a ghostwriter to finish ASOIAF. The guy just cranks out so much awesome material in such a short amount of time.

 

Co-signed. As much as I love Martin's writing, I really hate waiting six years between books like I did with the last one.

 

I'm looking forward to this. Only two more days. I don't like buying hard cover books... but I'll buy this time, I will.

I sure hope it lives up to its expectations.

 

I just started listening the audio books of these . I'm currently on the shadow rising.

Usually i would just read the books but i get to listen to whatever i want at work so the audio books are perfect.

Really enjoying them so far.

 

It's a safe bet that it won't suck. Unlike GRRM's last book! :idea:

 

No shit, this is the final one, right? I gave up back in the mid-90s, but always vowed I'd pick the series back up once he finished the damn thing. I may need to get busy! :lol:

 

Yes, it is. You'll have to get reading if you want to catch up by Tuesday. :lol:

 

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I'll have to check this series out since I'm always hearing good stuff about it.

 

I just got the first one on my iPhone. Making my way through it. A bit slow, but still pretty interesting.

 

I bought this at Barnes and Noble this morning. About 200 pages in and gonna keep reading for at least another 4-6 hours today. :lol: It was funny because I immediately went to the fantasy section and found all of the Wheel of Time books EXCEPT A Memory of Light. I went to the "new fantasy books" table and it wasn't there either. I was about to give up when I found it on this new hard book display surrounded by all the magazine racks on the entire other side of the store. :lol: Last place I would have imagined to look for it.

Only 200 pages in, but pretty damn good so far. :yesway:

 

Bowing out of this and all threads until I finish it. It'll be a bit too, since I have half of the book I'm reading now to finish before I start.

Hope it kicks ass!

 

Yeah, no way in fuck I could get caught up by then. :lol: Just spoiler tag the hell out of everything, and after I take the CFA this June I'll grab the first 9 or so from my parents' place and order the rest. :yesway:

 

I started reading EOTW in 1993, so I've been waiting 20... god... damn...years for this series to finish...

... and because of the stupid release date, I'll be waiting another 2 days until payday to start reading it again

 

Just finished reading it. Lots of nice surprises in this novel. Don't worry. There are no spoilers in anything I say below.

If I had to describe the novel in a word, that word would be: death. :lol: (No surprise, right? It's the fucking last battle). The real thing is guessing who is going to live and who is going to die. Annnd probably most of the time you won't guess correctly. There are also a lot of misdirections in the novel where you're almost tricked into thinking one thing, but then it turns out later to be different.

The whole novel is basically "the last battle," but there is one specific battle that can really be considered "the last battle" and it takes up 60% of the novel. This novel literally has the longest chapter in The Wheel of Time series. There is a chapter called "The Last Battle" that, in the hard cover version, is 190 pages long. It'll be way over 200 pages long in the paperback version. :lol:

Anyway, great novel and great end to the series. But, unfortunately, I doubt there's anyone else on this forum I can discuss it with yet. :squint:

 

Just finished. Absolutely fucking fantastic. Bravo RJ and bravo Sanderson, that was one HELL of an ending.

 

Well then. I look forward to reading this. :yesway:

 

AMOL is #1 on the NY Times bestseller list. :yesway:

Best Sellers - The New York Times

 

Can I skip the first 13 (well, minus the 75 or so pages I read of Eye of the World 20 some odd years ago) and just read this one?

 

There's nothing stopping you, but I'm pretty sure you'd have no idea what's going on. :lol:

 

:rofl: +10000000

I read through the synopses for the first 13 novels before starting to read A Memory of Light just so I would be familiar with everything that had happened (since it had been about 1 year since I last read the 13th Wheel of Time novel), but there were still a bunch of characters who I was like "Who was that...? Oh... yeah..." :lol:

If you had never read the novels in the first place, you would literally have no idea who anyone is, what is going on, why people are doing stuff, and... well, it would just totally make no sense.

 

Fax me over the last 10 pages.

 

No kidding...