Why YOU Should Read THE WHEEL OF TIME! 

Daniel Greene I just finished WOT yesterday and need to fill my life with more fantasy. Which fantasy book (preferably a series) would you recommend among your favorites.

@@andersulvang5061 Try some Brandon Sanderson Mark Lawrence books

@@andersulvang5061 also Malazan book of the fallen

Typical libtard kid has a picture of one of the worst presidents in history in the background and prob doesnt know a single thing about him or why he was so bad.

These are my favourtite books!

Same

true lmfao😂

SO same 😅

Halfway through book 10 and here I am

Why? It's incredible that's why!

lol did you finish the series?

Me too. I'm in the second book already. I'm really enjoying this story.

@@FrutillyTa amiture I'm on 12

Better read it or the DG mafia will represent!

This was my reaction a month ago. It’s been slow going through the first book but I’m almost done with it and I’m enjoying it a ton

I did that with Harry Potter. I will never allow myself to do that again because authors have a bad habit of dying mid-series.

I stopped reading when they were still being written and read them after they were finished.

Oh god, that's SO true... I read the first book in 1991..........

Very true, now that it's complete I feel like something is missing.

yeah but now you have other great book like song of ice and fire that are still not finished and seemingly take 20 years foe each new iteration to come out lmao...

And I wish I knew as much about girls as Rand did...

@@Yungshamgod and he wished he knew as much as Frodo did

Light I wish mat was here, he always knew what to say to girls

@@seanassociateproductions1691 Me, I feel sorry for Lan... but I really enjoyed the trope about how all three of "the boys" kept thinking that the other two knew so much more. Honestly, though, I'm not sure who I "pity" the most... Lan with Nynaeve? Perrin with Faile? Or Rand, with Elayne, Aviendha, AND Min?! Come to think of it, that's one of the good points of the WoT series... it's chock full of incredibly strong women... and I don't seem to recall a SINGLE "Mary Sue" among them.

@@Nyet-Zdyes Same lol, the fact that every single character had faults, made mistakes and lost fights was really refreshing after reading and watching some more modern stories. I especially like how nynaeve's brash and often arrogant character never really went away, even as the character evolved and matured-allowing a protagonist's weakness to continue. I think those kind of things were one of the main reasons why-after books 3-5, you could get really invested in the other characters, who had previously been more secondary to Rand. Wheel of time was ahead of it's time imo, with strong women and men as well as weak ones, likeable characters ranging from irresponsible and jokey, to disciplined and ruthless. Wheel of time isn't my favourite story, but it's definitely the one i consider most well written (that I've read) and it's still right up there with my faves anyways.

Honestly, this is the feeling I felt when I finished the Wheel of Time, and I've never been able to put it into words before.

Best part is the nostalgia for the beginning that you have by the end because it's take you months or years to get to the end of series

I felt that when I read the Rabbit Angstrom series. Not a fantasy series though.

Well said… that really makes me want to read it.

IMO, all five of you are in for a rolling good time. I'm almost jealous of you, being able to read it all at once... without having to wait for next book to be published... and reading it for the first time. It brought me many hours of enjoyment... and many smiles, with some of the character's humorous quirks. May it be, that it does the same for you and your friends.

I envy you Paulina, when I read it I had nobody to share the joy with, to bounce ideas off of, to compare notes with and explore it together, by the time I got to A Memory of Light I was taking it in smaller and smaller bits each day in the vain attempt to ration what little I had left. If I may I would like to recommend the Safehold series for you when you finish WoT.

Jaxon Lyman never read the series but this has me intrigued

This makes me think it will read slow and harder to get through.

@@joecourtney8552 no, on the contrary it lets you experience other characters more deeply. It takes from LOR in that it starts with a group or party that eventually breaks up with each character having their own part to play in grand scheme of things. So each chapter usually covers a particular character. Yes some of the books will ignore a particular character except for a single chapter maybe at end.

@@chadwhitfield6946 It depends on what you enjoy reading about, I think. In many ways the main character in WoT is more a concept than a character, and as such does not have to be present in order to drive a plot forward; however, it also makes the character itself feel more distant and less present as his characterization matters less over the concept he comes to represent. At least I found that to be true over time. Personally I could never finish WoT which was probably a combination of many things, with one of them being that I simply got burnt out reading fantasy at the time, but also that the large scale of WoT, over say, a more smaller-scale and personal story, made me lose interest. It does share a lot of similarities with A Song of Ice and Fire in that regard insofar that it's a very politically driven story with a humongous cast and that could be raised as a criticism against it, since it will be impossible to care for every character, and that sometimes less relevant characters end up stealing time from the main story that just doesn't have to be there. Even more so with Jordan, due to his detailed writing style. I began to really lose interest in WoT around the books where Rand took more and more of a backseat in favor of the political intrigue which occurred around him, and I never got around reading Winter's Heart and the final book as a result. To me, which I found the most interesting in the end was the psychological tension within Rand's mind, and when that was removed from being a major plot detail, I thus lost interest, as huge political conflicts just don't interest me a lot. Not too surprisingly I'm more interested in stories that dip into cosmic horror and psychological tension such as psychological thrillers than I am high fantasy as a result. And while Harry Potter too has a humongous cast, Rowling never went into the political conflict much of her world, which made it feel much more personal and real, and I think therein just lies the difference. It's the same reason I lost interest in GoT really quickly as no character spoke to me and the overall conflicts presented in the story also never appealed, either.

@@Kamishi845 I think it helped me reading WoT in that I read the books as they came out. Because of that I had to wait a year or 2 to read the next book. I could def see how starting it now and being so much story could burn anyone out. Plus Jordan does repeat himself alot. It got to point I would skip whole paragraphs because I didn't need to read how some woman reacted when a handsome man walked in by straightening her shirt or hair instinctively. But you should def someday finish it. Sanderson def picks the pace up when taking over.

I now desire to make a cake that is made to be eaten in round slices, not in triangles

@@sempressfi Good idea! Call them "cupcakes"!

@@ALTDOK667 You. You win the internet. Everyone else go home!

@@fardareismai4495 lol, I don't think I want it!😁

@@ALTDOK667 that's fair 😂

You have given me a strategy to employ in my own writing.

I realized this when I saw the 50th misandrist rant in the book and realized they were all when Nynaeve was narrating. That both made me realize this cool feature of Jordan's writing, AND that the, lets be honest, horrible gender politics are purely because the characters are mostly medeival peasents that are manipulated by a cabal of women.

*crosses arms under breasts*

*Sniffs with some emotion*

chocopong98 Don’t remember the skirt smoothing not from WoT specifcally anyway.

@@pourartistacrylicsbyshanno3987 Any time a man was described as handsome by a woman there was skirt smoothing.

@@SadPeterPan1977 Im rereading them now so that must not have started till book 3.

Hey lady you know me?

Al'Lan Mandarogan ???

Buried under the publicity of series that have existing shows and movies... Quite sad tbh..... WOT> GOT/ASoIF, HP, LOTR, etc all the way. Reading through the second time! it's so amazing :)! stick with it, the ride is awesome

Bryce Forsythe I believe they all have wonderful attributes that make them special to different people. I’ve been loving all the ones I read so far and I’m sure it will be one of my favorites. I like it a lot better than I did Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn.

@@geminidragonreads I'm on trip from Taren Ferry to Camelyn and saw your posting :) Enjoy the series. I'm on my 6th journey/read through and oh how I envy you first time reader. 😊 These characters are like old friends I hold close to my heart and I'm guilty of visiting them often. All the best.

One thing I love is that it subverts the chosen one trope by making it realistic and genuinely a scary experience than all sunshine and rainbow for the protagonist. Instead rand goes through so much shit that he starts to do questionable decision even infront of his friends.

Freddy Martinez for sure! It's a much more honest portrayal of what ”adventure” and ”glory” really is... And how much self sacrifice it truly takes to be a hero or legendary! I'm rereading for the first time right now, and it's even more amazing than the first read because I can focus on so many of these type of elements rather than just keeping my bearings on the plot and people...

there is one, but he doesn't show up until the last book, really. and it doesn't matter because he's awesome anyways. (spoiler next) Androl and the Lava Wall was so badass, it negates his mary sue-ness imo!

Same boat. Valar morghulis.

#MeToo

Literally the same thing happened to me. Just finished 1st book.

That’s why I am here as well!

Same. Season 8 left me feeling empty a little bit and I wanted a new fantasy series to fill that emptiness.

Wait until you're on book 7 and 8, then the details start to drive you crazy. Still a great read however.

This guy is obviously lying, what the hell man, the over describing was what I hated the most about it, I mean come in how many girls have to react to that guys handsomeness.

@@cjdanskine1984 Im at book nr 6 and details dont matter to me. Its Nynyve constant nagging. She just. Doesnt. Shut. Up.

I also started after this video, but I hated it. Book one started good, but then the pace slowered. After reading book two I stopped. I wish that I just can teleport to the books that Sanderson have written

@@bilgeturkkan6095 as someone who persevered through all the books, i'd say it wasn't worth it.

My reason to read it too lol

Not only did he live it he finished it

The assumption of transitivity of preferences is questionable. Time and time again I found that people whose stuff I like (including Brandon Sanderson) liking something tells me nothing about whether I'd like that something or not.

Are you enjoying it? I like the cosmere, but I didn't like LotR, and the first book feels way too much like an LotR rehash.

@@SenatorNyxen I fizzled out after book six. A couple of the books were excellent, but others failed to keep me invested and interested.

That kinda sucks.

I totally get this and it's awful. Here in Brazil the rights to the first era of Mistborn were taken down and we can't find the first book nowhere. I would say I know english pretty well, but reading books of fantasy/sci-fi can get difficult. Unfortunately it's what we've got if we want to read.

@@marianaoliveira20998 I've just finished reading the first Mistborn book in English and I would say, that the language there isn't quite that difficult, at least once you get to know the words related to the use of the individual skills that tend to repeat often throughout the book. So give it a try, it's worth the effort!

I can well imagine Robert Jordan jumping with both glee and pride, at having motivated someone to learn a foreign language to read a book.

aye bro, you can literally download it for absolutely free

don't... listen to the audiobooks instead...

I re read It in 4 months time and I am 17 I love it. You see so much more on your second time around. My mother and father have each read the whole series 4 times

I started in 1999 I think winters heart had just been released - man it was painful waiting for the next book to come out every couple of years!!!

That's what I call an elevator pitch.

You know, I'm imagining the ski lift breaking half way up and you two were stuck there for a few hours. Your friend just turns to you - sensing that they have you trapped - and starts telling you why you need to read the Wheel of Time.

Him and I planned it out.

We’ve been planning it for months.

DO IT! Before the end of the second book, The Great Hunt, you won't be able to find enough time in a day to read. Nothing is what you think it is or will be, no one turns out how you imagine, the world is vastly larger than you can conceive and the characters become personal friends with almost no exceptions. If you decide to do it my only recommendation is that you NOT WATCH VIDEOS ABOUT IT! Spoilers will absolutely destroy the series! Enjoy!

it's a great book guys i finished it last week awesome read.

not gonna lie....this is legit the best series ive ever read....but that first book was one hell of a slog to get through....i understand why it was....and after reading them all i totally get it.....but gawd damn that first book guys.........ffs....it was a gawd damn job

It's TWoT, twat!

Boom!

BlueXRaven Actually, no.

@@jameshightower8875 What is it then?

I don't think he meant "read the book" as a joke :P.. I've read the series too but I think I have to read it again. (I normally never re-read books, Lord of the rings is the only fantasy book series I have read more than once. Just because I dont really see the point of reading trough a story that I already know how its going to end etc.. *shrug*)

You'll have read it 48 times before GRRM just dies instead of finishing his series.

When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. Then The Winds Of Winter will come out, and not before.

@@Lucas-qq3rz and there still will be a dream of spring to wait for

@@Lucas-qq3rz *whispers* Never... never.... never.

Thats why ive also decided to read this series haha

I have the same problem with it. It always seemed to me as a series with huge potential, but that falls short because of its main characters. Specially Mat and Perrin never captivated me. I’m currently at The Shadow Rising, but it’s been a struggle reading it. I always felt like a lot of characters are kinda shallow as far as their motivations, desires and fears go.

How far along have you gotten in these 8 months?

I got it as an audio book which did not work for me so I started The Stormlight Archive. I haven’t completely given up on it. Thanks for asking! Any advice?

@@gothamoracle I haven't started it myself! Haha. I am reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen right now. I was just curious how a new reader felt about Wheel of Time!

Anthony Lynch maybe I’ll start it early next year. I’ve dedicated 2020 to everything Cosemer and my physical TBR is out of control. I’m reading Kings of the Wyld right now.

WELL???

3 years later, and GRRM just revealed that he is only 500 pages done with TWOW. It's still long way off. Sorry friend 😢

welcome to the fandom

"Way" ahead? 😕 ... 😆 😝

I am there too...and...blood and ashes...I feel I cannot stop!

Julian D oh man this is so true. The foreshadowing in the wot books is amazing.

He is the king of foreshadowing. Things you read in the first book that you think are pointless end up morphing into massive and irrevocable events and character arcs 11 books later. It's definitely a series where you can reread every book 5 times and still discover something new.

Agreed and the variety of prophecy systems from the Dark prophecy, foretelling, dreaming, Min's visions etc. Loved it loved it loved it!

If you think the first 3 books are slow paced, you are in for a nasty shock.

The Shadow Rising was probably my favourite book of the series. But I recognise it's not perfect and has some issues. How did you find it?

They will wear you down.

Yesssssssss! 🙌🙌🙌

Well , that escalated quickly !

I recommend JordanCon a lot. Been there twice and it's an amazing experience to be surrounded by WoT fans for a full 3 days.

That it is singularly the most detailed and rich world ever created where no detail is gratuitous and ever character fully realized. On a whole nothing measures up...but it’s fun to keep reading to find something better! Still reading though... I’ll be sharing this with friends!

I'm pretty much all in on Sanderson. For me, the Mistborn series (since I feel like calling the Cosmere as a whole a series feels a bit like cheating) is something special, and we've yet to even really see the full scope of it. The thing that makes it stand out to me - beyond the amazing magic system that is arguably Sanderson's best, and no one else I've read matches Sanderson's hard magic systems, and beyond the deeply likeable characters engaging plots and exceptional action sequences - is the temporal element. Each Era is giving us a new view of the same world, with vast technological advancement along with how the magic system fits into that, and how the magic users can use the technology to enhance their powers - or how technology can be used to counter those powers. As much as I'm really looking forwards to the fourth and final Wax and Wayne book, as well as the Era 3 trilogy, the thing that's really got me salivating (and since it'll likely take over a decade to get there, I'll be waiting a while) is how Sanderson will give us Mistborn Scifi in Era 4. I just love the idea of someone as focused on hard magic as Sanderson integrating that magic with all the technological trappings of scifi.

For character growth i have to mention Robin Hobb's Realm of the elderlings, from Malta in the Live Ships to the entire saga following Fitz, i'd argue that Hobb is on par with, if not better than, Jordan....

That's a tough one for me. Obviously, WoT is amazing. So is the Dark Tower series, though in different ways. I loved the Dragonlance series when I was younger; read pretty much every book up to the stories of the original heroes' children (the Majere brothers trilogy is frankly amazing). I'm awful with names, so I'm forgetting the titles of several fun series I've read over the years. Oh, the Vampire Chronicles (is that what they're called these days?) by Anne Rice; they're not all perfect, but they added so much to the vampire mythos. Anyhoo, brain's done cooperating. Carry on.

wheel of time :D

You are a beast

Cringe, you need a gf

14 books 8 times over?! My god!

Holy shit, where do you find the time!?! Another age would pass and come again before I read this masterpiece 8 times lol

@@wooshbait36 Bro your picture of profile!!!! I thought It was an hair hahahaha I was destroying my display.

Yeah, but the length is attributable to excessive verbage given to certain extraneous scene details and individuals' feelings and shit. I skipped pages and pages and pages of such, as I read the series and I think the whole series could have easily been half the number of books.

Audiobooks bro

Audiobooks.

Is there a fan edit of the book that cuts down on the excess descriptions and other not strictly necessary parts ? , I am not a fan of those as I lack the imagination to visualize it anyway and it slows down my reading pace

Yeah, Tolkien has serious depth to his works. And, another literary work of magnificent depth and breadth is the Bible. Read through, read it again, read it again, read it again. You'll always get something new and amazing each time, ad infinitum, whereas WOT and LOR have limited depth, ultimately. Peace out.

An excellent writer but a very different experience. I don't think they are directly a good comparison. Pratchett is writing his own sub genre of fantasy not a single epic.

Sir Terry was good but overrated tbh, his best novel is half written by Neil Gaiman

@@reluctantsocialist2670 Neil Gaiman worked on small gods? Learn something new every day.

No.... no.

Reid Wallace Nice

I'm terrified, after the abomination of sword of truth a few years ago..but I hope.

@@twylacastaneda7117 Yeah that was more like a partial birth abortion but I think this will be much better and Brandon Sanderson is involved.

@@twylacastaneda7117 , the main difference is in the quality of the original material.... Also, Amazon gave them enough money to make this a real quality show. It won't be Game of Thrones, for many reasons (much more magic, way less twisted politics and nudity), but it could be something nice, something new. Let's hope for it will, we'll know soon now.

@@ChristmasLore fingers crossed fellow literature lover!

rand al thor... orr daniel?? XD

@Claudia’s Atelier 17

the audiobooks are very well done! that's how I'm listening to them. have you read them before?

Both Kate and Michael do a phenomenal job on the audiobooks. Their performances and the quality of the recordings only get better as the series progresses. I hope you enjoy the experience! I just finished up AMOL and the series for the second time and if anything it was an even more magical journey than the first.

Noooo! there's better ways to pronounce proper nouns!!! 😵

@@twig8523 I have no complaints outside of the "moh-geh-deen" vs. "moh-gideon" mix up. That confused the crap out me and made me doubt my memory during my first listening lol.

@@joelsephjoelstar for me it's: moh-"ghchhuuhhh"-dine like a yiddish/shushing blend. (Exaggeration for demonstrative purposes) I do something similar but more "French"ish with Egwene.... Ugh. So gross to drop a hard "egg" on her name. VERY UN-feminine 🐔🐣

Warning, series gets a bit slow from now until the last three books! But its worth it

@@finlaystewart6894 im about to start book 7 and am dreading the slowness everyone has been telling me about

I hated book 7 and 8 and gave up. Hopefully your experience will differ.

@@finlaystewart6894 I lost patience with it. 14 books is too damn long.

We come....

Read it

Does it have any feminist propaganda in it?

@@hasibmd2891 If you enjoy beating your wife then it's likely not the series for you.

@@hasibmd2891 lol the main carachter gets two girls at the same time

If anything it supports traditional gender roles in an interesting way

@@hasibmd2891 ... I would say that it somewhat subscribes to traditional gender stereotypes, but it does it equally from both the male and female POV so it's balanced. IMO it actually pokes fun at those stereotypes as well.

To each their own of course! If you finish the series, you’ll see that plot armor fade away

@@aj2563 I couldn't get past book five, and I don't want to wait eight books for the payoff. That's reasonable, right?

@@josephhirning2642 totally, no need to spend your free time on things you don’t jive with

@@aj2563 Finally! Someone who knows the truth.

Whoa s tv series, who's making that? I can't wait!

@@geoffharmer1366 appereantly agent of shields,wesrworld and game of throne writers with costume designer of harry potter movies (mostly deathly hollows).

Good luck

Okay... that's heartwarming. =')

I fully agree with you. I don't recall exact book names, but about the time the Seanchan invade for real and Matt is stuck in the city they captured, up to the the raid against the White Tower, the pacing slows down to a crawl.

That thought has gotten me into so much trouble and also brought me so much amazing things 😂 "fuck it, why not"

Thankfully he's nothing like him lmao

If he spoke really fast like shapiro does, he'd sound just like him.

I thought so too. I cringed when I heard the voice.

"Books don't care about your feelings"

@@Anonymos185 "Im more popular than you Rothfuss. I turn out books like crazy and no one knows who you are"

Nice! Thank god for Sanderson, brought the books back to its early greatness

@@robert7737 I have to disagree with that. That feels like such a slap on Jordan 😣 I loved all the books. But the greatest were definitely his alone.

ABM Studio 15 if you count the prequel

Took me a month

DMD there’s no way. If that’s true you’re a really fast fucking reader

Do you even Rangers Apprentice my boy?

Joshua Brown or malazan book of the fallen

It's easier to read and do a marathon since all the books are finished now, and we don't have to wait a year or two between books. Brandon Sanderson is my #1 reason to re-read these books. I had also stopped at #8 years ago.

@@LoyaFrostwind in a genre that has some of it's best names taking almost a decade between books it's refreshing that he can publish so frequently. But sometimes it really shows in his work. There are passages in Oathbringer that make me really wish he would spend more time on his prose. I love his ideas but it's hard for me to get too excited for him when he seems to lose his commitment to quality work just to get things done. IDK I kinda hate bringing up Sandersons flaws to people because I really do believe in what he is doing but at the same time the quality if his writing and even most of his characters feel really rushed to me

it's true, most darkfriends do come across as stupid in the books, don't they?

@@michaelxz1305 >>> 😊

They walk among us