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Big Hills doesn't know any maidens to speak about!

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Of course you have the right to tell me something is a load of rubbish (even something I say). Just as I have the right to tell you that your statement that something is a load of rubbish, is itself a load of rubbish.

As for derivative and derivative, I agree. The Sword of Shannarra for instance is hugely derivative of LotR (but still enjoyable in it's own right, although not nearly as much so as the next two), however I just do not think that WoT is derivative of LotR, except on a superficial level.

And how come every philosopher you quote is celtic?

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BH,...And how come every philosopher you quote is Celtic?

That's a rhetorical question...right?

Adios

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Big Hills, just answer the question and be done with it, that way you can't lose either way ">

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BH,...And how come every philosopher you quote is Celtic?

OK, the truth is that it's partly because I was born in Scotland...but mostly 'cause I've never found any wise Australians to quote. ">

Adios

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Hey I'm wise........

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Long live WoT!!!!!
I am one of those (how did Big Hills put it?) poor lost souls that thinks WoT is a good series of books. The fact that the second five books are focused on interaction of characters and preperation for Taimon Gai'don is just another piece of evidence that Robert Jordan has created a fully rounded world that doesn't need a fight scene every chapter to be enjoyable.

Have said that, I do understand that WoT isn't for everybody and I agree with DN when he said 'different strokes for different folks"

I never picked up that the Sword of Shanara ripped of LOTR, I found tSoS much more readable than LOTR, I hate that story with a vengance!

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I've been dead for a while now, so far I don't like it...

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WOT, let's see. I dropped off during the fourth book. It was getting too repetitive. This is practically everything I get from reading it:
PLOT:
1. On a mission.
2. Attacked by Trollocs, etc.
3. Beat Trollocs, etc. Someone they believe has died.
4. Mourn for ages, continue journey and foget about dead person.
5. Repeat step 2-4 X many times.
6. Complete mission.
7. Yay!
8. Something else goes wrong, but they discover that dead person is not dead.
9. Repeat 1-8...

Ok, I think I'll stop now...

BH, Traci Harding was good!

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i could never get into it....">

and now i see how many there is to read in the series and i just dont want to think about it....

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It would be a pretty boring story if everything went the way the good guys wanted it to all the time. And someone said on another forum,
"I don't know if he's only got one storyline or he just doesn't know how it ends" (paraphrased but you get the gist). Robert Jordan has stated in interviews that he has always known how the story would end and who would and wouldn't be there etc. While I think that he shouldn't have done it like that (I prefer endings that come spontaneity, not preplanned so that the story has to conform to it), I still think WoT is a classic and well told story.

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I've been dead for a while now, so far I don't like it...

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I could give it another go, but...

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my main problem with the Ancient Futre book was the martial arts scenes........they were just so unbelievable for me it put me off the story..........

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Obelixx, let your imagination fly!">
Think of Jackie Chan?hrug">

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i like a good kick-arse scene or two or three or four...

there is some books where i say to myself -okay thats not gonna happen but i am gonna enjoy this anyway...

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Good on ya, Jess!

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hey I love jackie chan movies......I mean at least he knows martial arts.................lider">

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just forget that she doesnt know what shes doing..and enjoy the book...

actually ive heard a few others that didnt like the series so dont feel bad about it

so far i own the 1,2,4,5,6 i have the 3rd laybyed now but there was a mix up...i cant wait till i get it then im reading 3456 and you wont see me for a week

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Of all the Traci Harding books:
-The Ancient Future
-An Echo In Time
-Masters of Reality
-Chronicle of Ages
-Tablet of Destinies, and
-The Cosmic Logos,
I think that the Ancient Future was by far the best.
In the Cosmic Logos, there's this really great 'poem' before the title page that goes something like this:

In the Ancient Future,
There was an Echo in Time,
When the Masters of Reality
Were called forth
to record a Chronicle of Ages,
With the aid of the Tablet of Destinies,
And fulfill the words of the Cosmic Logos.

Pretty clever I think. But I'm not sure about the last line...hrug"> can't remember it exactly.
Clarification, Jess?">

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"> "> "> ? I know how you feel. I was waiting for well over a month for one forgetful person to return The Masters of Reality at my school library that I almost went hunting!hrug"> ">

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that is sooooooo rude, i used to hate it when that happened but our librarian's used to love me and they would hurry the person up...

trust me on this, get on the good side of the librarian and you can't go wrong....