Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 17-23
Well I finished up EotW and will be picking up my copy of The Great Hunt tomorrow. (I read these first books out of the library back in the day)
Let me just say that I had a couple of moments when I was reading through the last 200 pages or so where I literally said out loud "I love this series." or "This is so badass".
Let me just echo an earlier sentiment tho about how frustrated I am that we spent an entire 800 pages traveling only to change our final destination from Tar Valon to the Eye of the World. And frankly for a book called TEotW I feel like we spent a large amount of time not actually discussing the Eye of the World until the very end.
It was kind of humorous to me that the Green Man guides our first Forsaken to the eye only to come back later to fight them. I was really sad when he died, his body bursting into the 500 year old tree to hold back the blight. Later when Loial sings his song to preserve his life I kept trying to imagine what it would sound like in real life but fell short of coming to a conclusion about that. Does anyone else have anything in mind?
I found this channeling section as dicey and confusing as y'all did, and now I understand why I was so confused by the end of this book. I'm glad that it didn't turn me off of continuing the series.
So at the end of this book, does Rand actually realize he's the Dragon Reborn yet? I think he says that he believes Moiraine intends to use him as a False Dragon but I don't think he's actually made the realization yet. I think this comes in the TGH if memory serves well.
I would write more but you all had lengthy discussions already about many of the things I wanted more clarification over. I will hopefully be caught up within the next week or so.
Also if anyone else is using the audio books as I'm reading along while I listen, I love the male and female narrator but I just can't stand the Male narrators voice for Egwene or Moiraine. Totally throws me off. The same for the female narrator and her Lan. Kind of makes me laugh during otherwise serious moments. :P
Well I finished up EotW and will be picking up my copy of The Great Hunt tomorrow. (I read these first books out of the library back in the day)
Let me just say that I had a couple of moments when I was reading through the last 200 pages or so where I literally said out loud "I love this series." or "This is so badass".
Let me just echo an earlier sentiment tho about how frustrated I am that we spent an entire 800 pages traveling only to change our final destination from Tar Valon to the Eye of the World. And frankly for a book called TEotW I feel like we spent a large amount of time not actually discussing the Eye of the World until the very end.
It was kind of humorous to me that the Green Man guides our first Forsaken to the eye only to come back later to fight them. I was really sad when he died, his body bursting into the 500 year old tree to hold back the blight. Later when Loial sings his song to preserve his life I kept trying to imagine what it would sound like in real life but fell short of coming to a conclusion about that. Does anyone else have anything in mind?
I found this channeling section as dicey and confusing as y'all did, and now I understand why I was so confused by the end of this book. I'm glad that it didn't turn me off of continuing the series.
So at the end of this book, does Rand actually realize he's the Dragon Reborn yet? I think he says that he believes Moiraine intends to use him as a False Dragon but I don't think he's actually made the realization yet. I think this comes in the TGH if memory serves well.
I would write more but you all had lengthy discussions already about many of the things I wanted more clarification over. I will hopefully be caught up within the next week or so.
Also if anyone else is using the audio books as I'm reading along while I listen, I love the male and female narrator but I just can't stand the Male narrators voice for Egwene or Moiraine. Totally throws me off. The same for the female narrator and her Lan. Kind of makes me laugh during otherwise serious moments. :P