Jurjen
I decided to reread The Eye of the World exactly 5 years after starting it for the first time. I’ve never been a massive fan of the Wheel of Time (though I did enjoy the experience of finishing the entire thing, more than the sum of its parts and all that), and I certainly wasn’t a huge fan of b1 back then, though people always say how WOT is so much better on a reread than on the initial read. I think I’ll be finding myself in that camp. Having gone through the entire journey in this world with all these characters definitely has invested me in a way that I wasn’t before. The charm of Emond’s Field, the way the world and its mysteries slowly opens up to the gang, and the many hints of what’s to come… I had a lot of fun.
The flaws that bothered me back then bothered me less, though they’re still absolutely flaws. Initially I was intensely annoyed at how Jordan approached Mat’s characterisation, as well as the last-minute heel turn the story made in the final 100 pages. Knowing it’d happen didn’t make it so bad though.
When I decided to pick EOTW up again after so many years, I’d imagined it to be a one-off, and that I wouldn’t reread the entire series. I think I am going to commit to an entire reread, but god knows how long that’s gonna take. 2.5 years for my initial reread, this one’s looking at 5+ lmao. Also, the copies I read the series on initially are fucking illegible. Insanely narrow pages with very tiny spacing. Even back then I said that had I read them on proper copies, all my grades would go up by half a point. And what do you know, reread it on an ereader, and I am in fact upgrading the rating by half a point lol.
I decided to reread The Eye of the World exactly 5 years after starting it for the first time. I’ve never been a massive fan of the Wheel of Time (though I did enjoy the experience of finishing the entire thing, more than the sum of its parts and all that), and I certainly wasn’t a huge fan of b1 back then, though people always say how WOT is so much better on a reread than on the initial read. I think I’ll be finding myself in that camp. Having gone through the entire journey in this world with all these characters definitely has invested me in a way that I wasn’t before. The charm of Emond’s Field, the way the world and its mysteries slowly opens up to the gang, and the many hints of what’s to come… I had a lot of fun.
The flaws that bothered me back then bothered me less, though they’re still absolutely flaws. Initially I was intensely annoyed at how Jordan approached Mat’s characterisation, as well as the last-minute heel turn the story made in the final 100 pages. Knowing it’d happen didn’t make it so bad though.
When I decided to pick EOTW up again after so many years, I’d imagined it to be a one-off, and that I wouldn’t reread the entire series. I think I am going to commit to an entire reread, but god knows how long that’s gonna take. 2.5 years for my initial reread, this one’s looking at 5+ lmao. Also, the copies I read the series on initially are fucking illegible. Insanely narrow pages with very tiny spacing. Even back then I said that had I read them on proper copies, all my grades would go up by half a point. And what do you know, reread it on an ereader, and I am in fact upgrading the rating by half a point lol.