the appointed day

[paedraggaidin]

All you folks out there who've never read or even heard of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time might find this boring, but I ask that you bear with me here, for the appointed day has come. By which I mean that the long-awaited twelfth book in the series was released in the United States today, four years since the last was published, two years after

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[garpu]

I'm amazed at your story...humbled, too.

[miafeliz]

He always amazes me.

[paedraggaidin]

You guys are making me blush, for serious!

[miafeliz]

Well, I meant every word I said, for serious.

[shadowmoonsedai]

<3

(I'm not even sure I own book 11, having not finished book 10, but I'm going to order it in paperback right now. I won't be able to afford book 12 until it comes out in paperback or at the library anyway, haha).

[shadowmoonsedai]

I take it back! I did read book 10! It's book 11 I haven't finished! I'll go read it now! I won't know what's going on, but I'll do it anyway! For you!

[jesterjoker]

Wow, dude. You perspective me. o_o

I hopped into the WoT community in 1997 or 1998, and I was the internet way before that. I've grown UP here.

Bog, I feel like I do a retrospective of my own, and would, if I'm not more about the /forward motion/ right now. I hate pointing people toward the livejournal, but I've been detailing and analyzing my alteration after The Guns of August and the Galactica finale.

Part of that, I'm rereading The Eye of the World, and the WoT straight. Which I haven't done since that very very first read. I'm a scene person, but I'm /learning/ things. The series appears so much different now.

[jette16]

*hugs* You know I can't believe we've never met irl. I really need to make a US trip. I'll be the Freak yelling Paeeeeeddddddddd at the airport :)

I won't be getting this book right away. I hope to get it for my bday next week, but even then I still want to do a reread. Kept meaning to start it but I don't think I really believed it would actually get published.

[paedraggaidin]

*hugs* :D Maybe if we both yell the TSA guys will get all suspicious and stuff. I like sticking it to The Man!

memories. :-)

[anonymous]

Ah your post brings back memories. Sorry, don't have a live journal of my own so I have to post anonymous. Hope you remember who I am - Jennifer in MN, or otherwise known as 'Jeffiner' - it sounds so weird to type that out after so long. I recently re-found your blog here and had to comment on my own Wheel of time experience. I credit a lot of how my adult life has gone to having found the series as well. Although I was given the first book as a gift, from one of my guy roommates, for my ... *thinking* ... 28th birthday? Probably 28th. Before that I didn't read a lick of fantasy, not at all. I'm still only a half-hearted fan of fantasy ... but the gift did make me read a whole lot more stuff then I would have normally read. Anyway. So I read the first book, and the next, and the next, up to whatever is the 'current' one in 1998 (damned if I remember any of this these days, that's 10 years ago, sheesh!). I do remember having a highly boring temp job that summer - wait! I change my mind, I think it was 1997 - and did my first real

Re: memories. :-)

[rhodric]

I remember you. If it wasn't PoP, then it was Pacific Pages Wot BBS. The Path of Daggers came out on Oct 20th, 1998, but you said you thought it was 1997 which would make the latest book A Crown of Swords

See you around Jeffy.

Re: memories. :-)

[anonymous]

I still didn't think to check my library this weekend to see if I'm 'up to date' or not. Ha. This whole Halloween thingy happened you see .. and I never got around to it. I remember seeing you in Vegas. Dang it was hot there. :-)

Re: memories. :-)

[paedraggaidin]

Hey! I realized just now I never replied to this!

I do remember you. :D