The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass...

[kat_lair]

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Wheel of Time Book Club?

Robert Jordan's ginormous Wheel of Time series and I go way back, all the way to my teenage years when I devoured the first few books in parts as Finnish translations (they were chopped up on account of being So Fucking Long). Then I moved countries, picked it up again in original English but failed to finish it on account of a) life and b) it being a series that never ended. I mean, it sure did, and moth2fic  eventually donated the whole series to me and I told everyone I was going to read it as soon as I finished my PhD. I finished my PhD almost a decade ago. I have not (re)read the series.

Now, however, there are two things happening. 1) A TV series is coming out. 2) annathecrow was foolish enough to express mild interest in re-read efforts with me. On account of that, we were wondering if Anyone Else had such an Interest. Wheel of Time Book Club? Anyone? Share emotions, revisit questionable teenage choices or discover the world for the first time, cringe your way through the worst of it together and fall in love with the characters again?

You in?

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Comments

[moth2fic]

Clearly I can't join in since you have my books... I really hope you enjoy them! Without giving any spoilers I will say it's a series I never planned to re-read. The endings for all the characters and themes were convincingly resolved, and I don't think I'd be able to follow their 'journeys' with as much pleasure, knowing the ends, even the good ends. See what your re-reader thinks! I'm not counting your re-reading of the first few books. I would like to be in on the discussions because the series is definitely still alive in my mind and I've never had the chance to discuss it with anyone!

[kat_lair]

As with all these things, I expect to enjoy them in a more complicated way than I did as a teenager/young adult. Would absolutely love to have you in on the discussions of course. This is one of the reasons I'm trying to drag others with me; to have a bit of a fannish experience of sharing the highs and lows... Just as fyi, I've done a bit of investigating and there already is a wheel of time DW community BUT it's never been used. I've contacted the administrator although they too don't seem to be active anymore... Going to give it a couple of days and then maybe the best option is to start a new community.

[kat_lair]

Okay, no sign of life from the mod of existing but unused WoT community so I have created tar_valon Nothing there yet, but I'm hoping to do a 'lets get started post' within the next couple of days.