Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time"

[FKAGobucks877]

Book 11 is expected to be released in October. I know there were several people who are reading the series, so I thought I'd throw this out there...

Book Description

The Wheel of Time turns, and Robert Jordan gives us the eleventh volume of his extraordinary masterwork of fantasy.
The dead are walking, men die impossible deaths, and it seems as though reality itself has become unstable: All are signs of the imminence of Tarmon Gai’don, the Last Battle, when Rand al’Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must confront the Dark One as humanity’s only hope. But Rand dares not fight until he possesses all the surviving seals on the Dark One’s prison and has dealt with the Seanchan, who threaten to overrun all nations this side of the Aryth Ocean and increasingly seem too entrenched to be fought off. But his attempt to make a truce with the Seanchan is shadowed by treachery that may cost him everything. Whatever the price, though, he must have that truce. And he faces other dangers. There are those among the Forsaken who will go to any length to see him dead--and the Black Ajah is at his side....
Unbeknownst to Rand, Perrin has made his own truce with the Seanchan. It is a deal made with the Dark One, in his eyes, but he will do whatever is needed to rescue his wife, Faile, and destroy the Shaido who captured her. Among the Shaido, Faile works to free herself while hiding a secret that might give her her freedom or cause her destruction. And at a town called Malden, the Two Rivers longbow will be matched against Shaido spears.
Fleeing Ebou Dar through Seanchan-controlled Altara with the kidnapped Daughter of the Nine Moons, Mat attempts to court the woman to whom he is half-married, knowing that she will complete that ceremony eventually. But Tuon coolly leads him on a merry chase as he learns that even a gift can have deep significance among the Seanchan Blood and what he thinks he knows of women is not enough to save him. For reasons of her own, which she will not reveal until a time of her choosing, she has pledged not to escape, but Mat still sweats whenever there are Seanchan soldiers near. Then he learns that Tuon herself is in deadly danger from those very soldiers. To get her to safety, he must do what he hates worse than work....
In Caemlyn, Elayne fights to gain the Lion Throne while trying to avert what seems a certain civil war should she win the crown....
In the White Tower, Egwene struggles to undermine the sisters loyal to Elaida from within....
The winds of time have become a storm, and things that everyone believes are fixed in place forever are changing before their eyes. Even the White Tower itself is no longer a place of safety. Now Rand, Perrin and Mat, Egwene and Elayne, Nynaeve and Lan, and even Loial, must ride those storm winds, or the Dark One will triumph.

 

[calibuck]

Great post. I've been waiting for the next of the saga, and have reread the previous ten volumns in the meantime. How did you get the abstract on the next book? Are you a beta reader? From the threads that are starting to intertwine, the book must be in the 980 page range, or at least should to do justice to the different dramas within the drama.

I'm new to this thread, and am just hungry for any rumors. Where do I get the recruiting poop? Football, basketball, baseball, wrestling, etc. I'm interested. Thanks.

 

[FKAGobucks877]

welcome, cali. I've basically been doing the same re-reading. Pretty sure the above quote came from Amazon, but I don't remember for sure. I'm not big into the whole online fanatical stuff, but I can't wait for this book to come out...and I hope Jordan makes stuff happen finally.

As for the site, take some time to check it out...if you go here you will see all the different forums that BP has to offer. Football and basketbal recruiting have their own forums, the other sports you just have to look around a little in the different forums.

 

[WyoBuck]

I am reading book 11 right now, I am only about half way through, but it is getting interesting. Has anyone else read it yet?

 

[FKAGobucks877]

Yup. I think he did a good job of starting to bring all the different sub-plots to a head. My guess is there won't be too many more books. Book 11 was nice in that it pretty much brought the reader up to speed on everything and everyone, likely paving the way for the end. It was, IMO, by far the best since book five or so.

 

[Jagdaddy]

Yup. I think he did a good job of starting to bring all the different sub-plots to a head. My guess is there won't be too many more books. Book 11 was nice in that it pretty much brought the reader up to speed on everything and everyone, likely paving the way for the end. It was, IMO, by far the best since book five or so.

Book 11 was solid. I think he wrote himself into a corner for a while in a few of the previous books, but he seems to have a better idea where he's going now and the series is picking up again.