Camestros FelaptonJul 1, 2023
New blog post: Why did people read The Wheel of Time? https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2023/07/02/why-did-people-read-the-wheel-of-time/
Why did people read The Wheel of Time?

This post does not answer the question in its title. If I had true commitment to doing a bit, I’d make this a 30-post series of essays where nothing much happened and then a different blog wr…

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Because I lived in a small rural village before the internet, and my best friend and I read the same books so we could discuss them with one another because there was no one else close in age distance or tastes. We were young and desperate for science fiction and fantasy, and devoured everything we could find. We exhausted our (surprisingly well stocked) local library, and coordinated allowance purchases on rare trips to the nearest bookstore a mere 90 minutes distant.
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But even at 12 years old, having paid for Crown of Swords with my own money, I felt so enraged and disgusted with the state of the story that I threw my copy in a trashcan. To date, only two other books have joined it in the bin of shame; Weber's Ashes of Victory and Goodkind's Faith of the Fallen.