So I can only read one of these books at a time. As in, have to read something else between each book. This happen to anyone else? His long winded style wears out my brain and I can't handle it lol. I'm currently on book 4, almost done, and I've heard it only gets worse, is this true?

 

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339. The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan – 2 / 15 / 09
340. The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan – 2 / 27 / 09
341. The Dragon Reborn – Robert Jordan – 3 / 7 / 09
342. The Shadow Rising – Robert Jordan – 3 / 15 / 09
343. The Fires of Heaven – Robert Jordan – 3/ 22 / 09
344. Lord of Chaos – Robert Jordan – 4 / 1 / 09
345. A Crown of Swords – Robert Jordan – 4 / 15 / 09
346. The Path of Daggers – Robert Jordan – 4 / 21 / 09
347. Winter's Heart – Robert Jordan – 4 / 29 / 09
348. Crossroads of Twilight – Robert Jordan – 5 / 13 / 09
349. Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan – 5 / 26 / 09


It took me over three months but I managed to read them back to back to back. I would normally read that number of pages in 4-6 days but I just took those books really slowly. I can't read an entire book without a break.

 

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Yeah, I'm generally a pretty fast reader, Wise Man's Fear & Way of Kings in about 5 days. Yet his books all take me at east two weeks, dragon reborn I actually stopped and came back to a month later.

 

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learn how to skim but still take in information so when it gets boring you can just skim through tons of pages of at a time. that's how i got through the lord of the rings books.

 

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Wait, you didn't read all of those delightful little poems, songs, asides and etceteras?

 

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Its what I find myself doing most of the time.

 

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My mother did WoT on CD.

Can you imagine having to sit through every bloody word?

 

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I would give-up and burn them half way through the first book

 

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For me, I find myself reading these almost completely without skimming (and back to back). I don't know what it is but despite some people's opinions that certain books are not as good I have enjoyed each one of them. I recently began re-reading the sword of truth series... and am finding that I'm skimming through many sections that i don't remember skimming before.

 

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I found myself skipping whole chapters at times when 90% of the chapter involved describing the clothes the women were waiting interspersed with a load of sniffing and braid pulling. The last one Jordan wrote and the Sanderson ones are when it gets better again.

 

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