Have you stopped reading Wheel of Time?

Rawled Demha,Talysia, Greetings! I think it will take a few hundred years to learn my way around, hope to talk soon :)
 
Welcome, Nynaeve. Nice to see someone else who is fond of the Wisdom, we seem to be something of a minority! :)
 
Just thought i'd register to tell you Robert Jordan died.

some other writer is taking over the half of the 12th book he didn't finish.

apparently he spent his last days dictating the outline of the last book so fans would know how it was intended to be finished.

Bri
 
i fell off somewhere in the middle of book 6, lord of chaos. the women ground me down and the plot seemed to be going nowhere. i was also frustrated by the "rand battles the grand demon and wins... but it wasn't the real demon after all and he's not really dead anyway" nonsense. my brother plowed on, but he didn't seem happy about it. i think he fell off in book 8-9 somewhere.
 
Not only did I stop reading them after book 7 I just didn't care any more. Bored with the lengthy dialogue that went on and on and on for page after page (telling, not showing) and I found I just could not remember who was who. I gave away all the books I had, so hopefully someone with more persistence than me will enjoy them. And it all started so well. I actually began to think that it was being stretched out just for the money, and not for the story. I suspected the same thing with Terry Goodkind, but then I'm a terrible cynic at this time of night.........
 
No I have not quit reading them and will give the final book a shot, although I am rather worried about another author being brought in to finish a set of books with this much detail and background. After Brandon Sanderson was announced as the author to complete the series I picked up and read Elantris. It was a ok book but to me not as good as WoT. I think WoT was 3 books old when I found it and got hooked. I read them, and each year when the next book would come out I would buy it in hardbound and reread the whole set before reading the new one. I seemed to find something I had missed in the set each time I reread it. A brief sentence or paragraph that just seemed there for color would suddenly mean something 2 books later as it helped shed a little light on current story line. I sometimes wondered how detailed his outline of the whole story must be. I sure hope Brandon Sanderson is able to do the story justice.
 
Man..i stopped reading halfway into the fourth book. It just kept going on and on and on. I feel like I need to give it another go however...
 
I'm just waiting for the last book to be published. I'm not sure if the new writer will do a good job or not but I have to finish the series.
 
I've read that Robert Jordan actually wrote the last chapter, you know, like he always claimed he could at any time, and that is the chapter that will appear in the finished project.
 
I just read through these (not each and every post..skipped through). I seems everyone can see the break after book 6. Something changed at that point. I’m not sure, but I seem to remember that when the series started it was supposed to be a 7 book series. I owned through book....9 I think, then sold them all to a used book store, and noticed I wasn’t the first.

I don’t know if it was just that Jordan got so popular that the editors were no longer allowed to do their jobs, or if someone was "pushing" him to make the series longer as each book shot up the best seller list. But whatever happened it ruined a good series.

Up through book 6 (as I stated elsewhere) I believed this was going to be one of the great fantasy series...but no longer. I think it could still make a good series if all the volumes after 6 were turned over to a good editor.

I’ll probably get the last volume (or volumes) out of the library, but don’t plan to buy them.
 
I think Istopped reading after book two, I just couldn't be bothered getting each one from the library and spending two weeks reading each of them.
 
I'm glad it take syou 2 weeks, I can sit for a month or more on one book. Very irritating when you can read fast oh well, I do like RJ and am sad that he's not here anymore.
 
I shall get and read his last book, then later will read the complete series. When you wait so long for a next volume to be published it often makes the next book seem different.
 
I read fairly fast, but I couldn't get through book 3. I loved book 1 and 2 but by 3 he had lost me. Characters started doing out of character things and I found myself more annoyed reading it than enjoying it. I stopped buying at that point and haven't gone back.
 
Well. like I said, I burned through books 1 through 6, I'd waited to start them as I'd seen somewhere it was supposed to be a 7 book series. At that point it was going "then" to be a 10 book series. Oh well, that's how it goes. You've probably seen what I said. For me the BIG change came in book 7...whoa, slowed way down.
 
Nope, I have not stopped reading the series. I just completed my 6th re-read -- New Spring through to Knife of Dreams -- and Crossroads of Twilight is the only book from the series I really struggle to read.
 
I've read the first six books as they came out, but I stopped there. The first two books of the series were the best for me. After that the series became less and less entertaining. I was so angry at the sheer inertia of the Lord of Chaos. So many pages, so little accomplished. I actually threw the book across the room in my disgust. To be fair, the plot was stalling long before then, but Chaos just killed the thrill for me.
 
I got books 1 to 9 as opening offer years ago when I signed up for the Sci Fi and Fantasy book club, long since quit, it seemed a good deal 9 books for 99p I think I got to book 6 and then just stopped I think I just realised I just didn't care what happened next.
 
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