Book Thread: VGChartz gotta start readin'!

[Baalzamon]

Khuutra said:

Baalzamon said:

Khuutra said:

FFXII is the best game in the series with the best writing and the best characters but that's savagely off-topic.

Robert Jordan (may he rest in peace) couldn't write women. Period. I can only assume that his understanding of the relationships between men and women was not accurately communicated in his portrayals of them. I liked the first few Wheel of Time books, but Jordan is not in any way comparable to Erikson or Martin.

And yes, characters are more important than worldbuilding - unless, ah, the world becomes something so grand, so wonderful, as to match the means of characters who walk other worlds.

Interesting, I absolutely love the relationships in a Wheel of Time, and think that the humor that they add is, in my mind, one of the cool parts about the series.

So which one w as your favorite woman?

Which one was your favorite dude/lady relationship?

Which one was your favorite relationship between two women?

1.) Well, in the earlier books, I'd have to say Morraine is my favorite...but of the main girls, I'd defiantly have to say Egwene.  But later on in the books, each time, Nynaeve, surprisingly, as I don't much like her in the earlier novels comes out to be my favorite.

2.) I don't really have a favorite dude/lady relationship until slightly further into the series (4 or 5 books), and then it is defiantly Perrin and Faile.

3.) My favorite relationship between 2 women would defiantly have to be Nynaeve and Morraine.  Just Nynaeve's apparent hatred towards Morraine makes me chuckle.