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The Lion Rampant? I do prefer that to the St Andrew's cross. Sadly it's not legal to fly it here except in very specific circumstances. Oh you can wave it around at football matches (I think it's football matches) and I doubt a copper will swoop down on you in the street if you child had one... but you're not allowed it from a flagpole or displayed in a window or anything.

STILL oppressing my PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! What the heck!! :)
 
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Welcome to the site! I'm also senior-member what comes to age, 39 that is...

It's nice to have kind of a newbie wot fan :) most of us has read and re-read the books back and forth several times :)

The book discussion forums are stuctured so that you won't get spoiled unless you want to :)

I AM a true Newbie( sort of ..if u can call reading the series in 1992 originally a NEWBIE!) LOL but i have ONLY READ UP TO bOOK 6!!! So it WILL be fun to be able to have people to REALLY discuss it all with as i read it all for the first time!! Im currently on book 3 and STILL discovering awesome tyghings i missed the first time around!
 
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Welcome. Yes they are good, and Sanderson has done well, at least with what I have read so far. I'm half way through book thirteen, Towers of Midnight.
 
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Welcome. Yes they are good, and Sanderson has done well, at least with what I have read so far. I'm half way through book thirteen, Towers of Midnight.

Super cool! i was worried for a while there! No one wants to read 11000 pages then have the last 2000 writen by someone else!!! I mean THE ENDING!!!! ??? Told by someone else!! Yikes!!!!! But from all ive heard Sanderson is a bad*ss :) so im loking forward to reading it all again! i was so afraid that people were gonna say that it was horrible , then i would have to deal with a huge part of my childhood being ruined!! :P
 
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He is not RJ but he did good job. I think none other than RJ could have done it better. There are flaws of course but nothing major for me. I am happy for the last books but not every one is which is understandable.

The most important point for me is that I heard about him because of this, otherwise I probably would have never read his books. Now I've read nearly all his published books and am totally hooked :) in a way I enjoy his writing style even more than RJ's. And he has given me a 10-book serie to wait :) the stormlight archieve book 2 will be published late this year or early 2014 ;)
 
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He is not RJ but he did good job. I think none other than RJ could have done it better. There are flaws of course but nothing major for me. I am happy for the last books but not every one is which is understandable.

The most important point for me is that I heard about him because of this, otherwise I probably would have never read his books. Now I've read nearly all his published books and am totally hooked :) in a way I enjoy his writing style even more than RJ's. And he has given me a 10-book serie to wait :) the stormlight archieve book 2 will be published late this year or early 2014 ;)

Without spoiling it for me..LOL...Would you say the books ended with TOO many loose ends? i mean thats the One critisism ive heard. That Jordan set up a LOT of subplots for various characters, then they just never were adressed and the series ended!?
 
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Some of the plots was never meant to be solved in the first place (according to RJ notes), second, some plots were going to be solved in a sequel RJ planned (sequels are not going to be published) so were naturally left out, third (my opinion) the material was too huge to squeeze in a 3 books, so you just had to leave something out or write 4th book to give them satifying ending. Some of the plots were probably never solved in RJ notes.

Of course you could argue over why certain plots were not solved and why some where. It does give a touch of reality to the series. Not everything is solved in real life... However, to me the most important ones were solved and I didn't even notice something/persons was missing or only mentioned once :D

EDIT: Just wanted to add, that I didn't do a full re-read before amol, so, somethings I simply didn't remember so I didn't miss them. I am now re-reading the series in full, so that I could form a complete opinion of the last books and the series :) Some of the RJ's last books were rather painful to read, very slow to read and nothing much happening... so, Sanderson's wot books were like new fresh start to the series. But that is just my opinion :D
 
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Some of the plots was never meant to be solved in the first place (according to RJ notes), second, some plots were going to be solved in a sequel RJ planned (sequels are not going to be published) so were naturally left out, third (my opinion) the material was too huge to squeeze in a 3 books, so you just had to leave something out or write 4th book to give them satifying ending. Some of the plots were probably never solved in RJ notes.

Of course you could argue over why certain plots were not solved and why some where. It does give a touch of reality to the series. Not everything is solved in real life... However, to me the most important ones were solved and I didn't even notice something/persons was missing or only mentioned once :D

EDIT: Just wanted to add, that I didn't do a full re-read before amol, so, somethings I simply didn't remember so I didn't miss them. I am now re-reading the series in full, so that I could form a complete opinion of the last books and the series :) Some of the RJ's last books were rather painful to read, very slow to read and nothing much happening... so, Sanderson's wot books were like new fresh start to the series. But that is just my opinion :D
Thats what i heard! that after book 6 (which is as far as ive read) that they books become ver slow.. :(
 
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Hi! Welcome! I'm looking forward to reading many of your posts. :pleased-1:
 

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