Yup, the Wheel of Time. All er… what did Lex say, 17 er… days. Oh boy. Anyway, everything feels longer when you start attributing facts and figures to it.
So hear me out. I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned my eternal battle with WoT here before, I kind of feel like it’s my white whale at this point. I’ve read up to book 9 (I think), but honestly, past book 6 everything is just kind of one messy blur. I definitely started skimming. I’ve tried jumping back on at various junctures but the gap of time since I last really ‘read’ is big enough that there are gaps in my memory, so I am considering starting again. I plan on watching the TV show, so I figures I could maybe just try to keep pace with that, reading the first few now, and then doing the rest in between series, giving me room to read other things as well so it’s not just a WoT marathon (I’m assuming here that the show will even work that way series to series, or that it isn’t cancelled immediately).
I am aware that it’s a crazy time investment, and also that, given my issues when I got to the back half of the series, that it might be a futile effort, but I did enjoy the first batch of books, and I’m not convinced I couldn’t like the later lot, and I would like to read the end and see how it all ties together. I hear a lot of stuff about the WoT as a complete body of work that makes me feel like I should finish it. It might be a pathological need though. We’ll see.
