Winter's Heart by Robert Jordan

[David Johnston]

It's been years since I've read one of these things. It's book 9 of the series, but let's face it nothing happened in the last four books so it's not hard to get back up to speed. And dear Glob, so much humbling of haughty women. I'm 350 pages into it and I'm counting 6 "humbling of haughty women" scenes. In that time one thing has happened. Rand has finally shown up to see his harem again and they officially acknowledged that they are his harem by all "marrying" him with the magic ritual that the Ael Sedai use to link themselves to their goons. So obviously things are moving with lightning speed.

[Moriarty]

On Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 7:35:03 AM UTC+10, David Johnston wrote:
> It's been years since I've read one of these things. It's book 9 of the series, but let's face it nothing happened in the last four books so it's not hard to get back up to speed. And dear Glob, so much humbling of haughty women. I'm 350 pages into it and I'm counting 6 "humbling of haughty women" scenes. In that time one thing has happened. Rand has finally shown up to see his harem again and they officially acknowledged that they are his harem by all "marrying" him with the magic ritual that the Ael Sedai use to link themselves to their goons. So obviously things are moving with lightning speed.

That was the last one I read. Sometimes I consider reading the last five books just to find out what happens but I can't bring myself to read the two Robert Jordan only tomes before Brandon Sanderson's final three get things going again.

-Moriarty

[Scott Lurndal]

David Johnston <davidjohnst...@gmail.com> writes:
>It's been years since I've read one of these things. It's book 9 of the se=
>ries, but let's face it nothing happened in the last four books so it's not=
> hard to get back up to speed. And dear Glob, so much humbling of haughty =
>women. I'm 350 pages into it and I'm counting 6 "humbling of haughty women=
>" scenes. In that time one thing has happened. Rand has finally shown up =
>to see his harem again and they officially acknowledged that they are his h=
>arem by all "marrying" him with the magic ritual that the Ael Sedai use to =
>link themselves to their goons. So obviously things are moving with lightn=
>ing speed.

It will really (truely) start moving rapidly with _Knife of Dreams_ and
Sandersons followons.

[Anthony Nance]

That is exactly my status - put the series down for a long time,
revisited with Winter's Heart, took forever and ever and ever
to get through it, then put the series back down. Several people
agree with Scott's sentiment (next message in this thread), so
I suppose someday I will go to the next book.

But not any time soon.
- Tony

[hamis...@gmail.com]

I picked it up on the hugo packet a couple of years ago and read the whole thing from the start (I think I'd read the first 6 back in the 90s), it did improve where Sanderson took over.