Thread: Brent Weeks Raped "The Wheel of Time"!

Quote: Chris -- I'm sorry if you feel I'm still misinterpreting you, but you titled this thread and proposed its central contention, not me. You have said that Jordan did combinations of elements, and that Weeks' work is not just similar, but that Weeks ripped Jordan off: "when they are put together it seems Weeks didn't have to do much "research" to come up with ideas." Either you are...

Quote: Perhaps it's my view that somehow RJ has some ownership of those ideas that is the main issue. You think? I believe I've said that throughout the thread. Quote: The difference is RJ acknowledges it and that he didn't continue with it throughout the entire series. The difference is that you give Jordan a free pass on this issue of yours because you like Jordan and because you have a subjective, frequently shifting...

Quote: Originally Posted by KatG Psylent -- As Bastard said, the objections are not about influences but claims that one author ripped off another, which is largely a game played in alternate world fantasy. (And yes, I'm aware of the Arthurian influence in Wheel of Time.) Well if everyone is in agreement that Jordan clearly influenced Weeks than I'm happy. Obviously, the main story with its street rat turned assassin turned avenging...

Just finished the first book. Great, great stuff! Fantastic debut. I was reading this at every opportunity, and so much so that yesterday as I was on my way home from work on the subway, and I was reading the climax and totally missed my stop, which has never happened to me before while I was reading....so a testament to how good I found it. The story, the characters, the setting...all great and enjoyable. I have Shadow's Edge (the 2nd...

Quote: Originally Posted by Werthead I'm pretty sure he did when he tore Goodkind a new one after the latter said in an interview he'd had investigative heart surgery and his heart was in fantastic shape and was like a teenager's, at precisely the time that Jordan was dying of heart disease. Jordan's second or third-to-last blog post was spent basically saying he thought Goodkind was a total arsehole. Which I think is...

Psylent... no one is denying Jordan's influence. It's the notion that Weeks somehow stole from Jordan. All the elements described here have been in abundance before Jordan himself implemented them in various shapes and form, not solely from literary means. They weren't Jordan's per se to be stolen from.

Quote: Originally Posted by ChrisW Back for more. Kat what gets me more than your pratronizing and insulting rebuke and the peanuts patting you on the back for it, is that I gave specific points(could have made more by the way) where the books were actually the same or very similiar and you came back with generalizations that i'd already conceded in my first post. Have you even read the trilogy? Use a civilized title for the thread and...

oh, get you!

Quote: Originally Posted by Radone ...but oh my Godmage, it was annoying. Makes me even more happy that I changed my name.

I really enjoyed them, they were a fast read and it was the series that returned me to the genre. Now I read a lot of fantasy novels as a result.