Thread: The Gathering Storm - Wheel of Time Book 12 Official Discussion SPOILERS

Quote: Originally Posted by the mighty pen I think you'll find the other characters very interesting in this book. definitely the best WoT, IMO I'm sure I will. I like pretty much all the characters, but I have to admit that over the last four or five books Rand's personality has become tiresome. He just really needs to shaken up and brought back to being human again. And it's great to hear that that happens in this book....

Quote: Originally Posted by ChrisW You ever like this or don't but to say BS hasn't done this is well mind boggling imo. Overall i'm happy. That's really good to hear (well actually read) Chris, because you've been one of if not THE most vocal WOT fan here at SFFWorld.

Quote: Originally Posted by BDM I'm afraid I don't understand the warning. I'm very sorry if I did something wrong, but I don't see what that was. It was my belief that the Spoiler thread was intended for people to be able to speak openly about the series. Am I missing something? No, no, nothing like that. This is the spoiler section for the book so if you haven't read it yet, which is what I inferred from your...

Quote: Originally Posted by Avenger2.0 I was disappointed when he destroyed the chodean kal, and when lews therin says that the true power is the dark one, As to rand being a darkfriend from using the true power, he actually used a measure of it in Knife of Dreams when Semihage throws the fire ball at him, and afterwards he has the sar in his eyes(nynaeve mentions that theres something wrong with his eyes, and it mentions how the sun seems...

Quote: Originally Posted by raand Although I agree with a lot of what you are saying about Fain, I have to disagree with your statements about Jordan. I think he was fairly masterful with his management of plots and large numbers of characters. Also the connections between WOT characters and characters from other series is common in many fiction novels. It would be fairly easy to take most fantasy nowadays and connect it to novels of the...

Quote: Originally Posted by TheEvilKing It does sound pretty cool and seems like a lot happens. I'm half tempted to go out and buy it, thus skipping the previous 4 or so books in the series. I don't think you guys need to be using spoiler text in this thread btw. According to the OP, yes, we do

Most of the talk about Mat is Sanderson's portrayal of him not his plotline. That doesn't really progress much.

A Gollum and Fain comparison? Sure I can see a few vague and somewhat abstract similarities, but otherwise the comparison seems quite a stretch to me. Look at them personality-wise and they're almost complete opposites. Gollum is a huge introvert who - as far as I know - only ever killed one person(his cousin? was it?) over his first possession of the ring. All he ever wanted was to possess the ring. He never wanted to use its power. He...

Quote: Originally Posted by Fred Gallney Both Fain and Gollum have been diminished and tortured by various plot devices ailing them. Gollum was tortured by the ring. Fain is tortured by his lust for Rand's death. Both the ring and Fain's unquenchable desires have created a certain madness within their minds and bodies. If you remember in Eye of the World in Caemlyn (or rather Camelot), we see Fain in rags essentially slinking and...

It does sound pretty cool and seems like a lot happens. I'm half tempted to go out and buy it, thus skipping the previous 4 or so books in the series. I don't think you guys need to be using spoiler text in this thread btw.