The Prologue encompassed about 6 different viewpoints and when I reached Chapter 1, I had forgotten I was still reading the prologue! Oy vey.
There was a quote though that felt too fitting, sadly:
“You bite at one another like rats in a sealed box.”
~One of the Forsaken to either Elayne or Nynaeve
Thankfully, the girls are somewhat separated so the bitchiness factor has been spread around. We’re getting both Rand, Matt and Perrin’s perspective, so this is going to be a full book. Calibre calculates this at 976 pages and I think Librarything has it close to 1100? Either way, this is a big fat book. Wouldn’t surprise me if it slows my reading for the month way down.
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Quite unusual to see that necklace, waistcoat and sword combo….
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Good taste tells 😉
And I’d get used to it. I’m planning on making that pix the lead for most of my currently reading, quotes, etc kind of posts. Anything book related but not a review will probably have it 😀
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Good! I love that pic.
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You’ll be seeing a lot of it this month. I think thursdays ended up somehow being some sort of currently reading Thursday 🙂
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Haha, those “prologues” always made me laugh because they were usually so long and not really what I consider prologesque content.
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Yeah, not prologue at all, but MULTIPLE chapters in reality. Jordan liked to write, that is for sure!
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Can’t get over the fact how cool that picture is🤔🤔😊😊 Anyways, good luck this definitely is a big book! Robert Jordan is another one of those authors that has been on my to read list like forever🤔🤔
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I loved this series the first couple of times that I went through it. I’ve only read the ending 3 books once (where Sanderson finished it due to Jordan dying), so we’ll see what I think of the series as a whole once I’m done next year or ’22 😀
And thanks. It IS a cool picture isn’t it? I’m wicked glad I found it.
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It truly is, and I might repeat that a few times when I see this picture again😊
Haha…well as always I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it, no matter how long it takes 😊
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I read The Knife of Dreams and part of one of the other books, I can’t remember which one. I’m just glad they printed it on acid free paper. By the time you get to the end your fingers might have a problem. . .
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I was going to say as well – this month must be the month for big books, because I’m chiseling away at two of them right now. =D
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Whatcha working through?
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Two indie books, One is by our mutual blogger / Author friend Ms. Mugrage titled The Long Guest and Darke Awakening by Lee Hall. These are both around 500 pages, although I think Ms. Mugrage’s book is a bit longer. There is of course more, but that is what I’m focusing on! =D
Anything over 250 pages is a big book to me!
And regarding Knife of Dreams – I was in the poor house and it was within reaching distance and not much else to choose from, ha ha. I’m thinking the other one I started and didn’t finish was book #1, which was a lot more coherent for me, seems like Knife got into some epicism, especially toward the end that probably would have made more sense if I followed order!
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Looking forward to your review of the Long Guest. I’ve made a conscious choice to not read books by people I know, even online. It just doesn’t end well for me the couple of times I have done it. Either I pull my punches or I feel like I pull my punches. Neither is a scenario I want to get into.
I was checking out the stats on bookhype and it has a great break down of what my reading page numbers look like:
0-199 = 23%
200-399 = 44%
400-599 = 22%
600-700 = 8%
800+ = 2%
There’s a percentage missing, but that’s because they rounded to the 10th of a percent. So it looks like the 200-400 is the sweet spot for me.
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You can look for that review in the second half of this Nov 2020 month, sir. 😀
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Excellent.
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I can’t even imagine reading these on paper anymore! Ebooks all the way for me. My kindle is a couple of ounces instead of pounds 😀
Did you read Knife “just because” to see what the fuss was all about? It just seems an odd place to jump in, as it’s book 8 or 9.
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I started Dune so I expect my reading to slower this month as well.
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Yahhssssssss! Even if you end up hating the book (which I doubt, but hey, it “could” happen), I love it so much that I always find it interesting to see what others think of it, good, bad or indifferent 😀
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I’m 344 pages in and very much enjoying it. I think something crazy ridiculous would have to happen for me NOT to like it.
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If you like it that far in, you’re good until the end I think 🙂
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Awesome 🙂
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That’s an Awesome picture! And good luck… my 1088 pg Rhythm of War should come in later this month and I’m both excited and very nervous to pick up something that big. Also, don’t think it will fit on my bookshelf anymore 😂
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Oh man, another Sanderson tome. Hahahahhaa about it and your bookshelves. It doesn’t surprise me though, those books are just humongous. I haven’t been following the Shards (or whatever it is called) series by him, is War book 4 or 5?
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His books are all so big! Worth it though… I am also getting the audiobook to help me though 🙈 this is the 4th book
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I wondered what was slowing down your reading this month! Good stuff though, can’t wait for the TV series.
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I know I’m going to wait until the whole season is out before I watch it. I can’t do the whole “one episode per week” any more. My viewing habits are so different from what they used to be, even 5 years ago.
Part of the apparent slowdown is that I’m having a real hard time getting motivated to post the links to LT every time. Besides you and YouKneek, I don’t actually care about anyone’s reviews or opinionson LT. I follow several other people, but I am just not into the LT format of doing things
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What’s on that sword?
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“sic pereant omnes inimici tui”
This wiki page says it all:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Thunstone#:~:text=The%20blade%20is%20inscribed%20with,weak%20to%20effectively%20wield%20it.
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Good luck on your Jordan, I just finished a 350 page WH that took me 3 months… If you read it complete this month you win all the way to 2030… Also love the Stooge chronicles cover, are you going to start writing your own book yet?
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I actually looked at whether I should try my hand at writing a book. My WP stats state that I tend to write between 50-60K of words a year, which is a small novel. So I have the words, but not the ideas or the ambition. And I would probably turn into one of those horrid indie authors who think they’re the best thing since Shakespeare 😉
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I wouldnt mind to read some small novel from a big honcho master Ironer…
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Yikes, that is a big fat book for sure! That size of book scares me!
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Thankfully, Books of Unusual Size or BOUS ;-), have always attracted me rather than discouraged me.
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Ahhh them big fat chunky fantasy books! ❤ I have one too that I got to dive into soon if I want to finish it anytime soon hahah And those insanely long prologues that make you forget that you're still in them get me all the time too hahaha
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Between Dickens and Jordan, this year has been full of chunksters. Thankfully, I’m wrapping up Dickens in the next couple of months so ’21 shouldn’t have quite the same chunkster ratio.
All this “chunkster” talk makes me feel like I need to go on some sort of book diet, hahahahaha 🙂
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