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Old 26-September-2004, 11:38 AM
PeterFab PeterFab is offline
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Originally Posted by Eroica
I gave up after the first three volumes. I hated the main characters. Bland al Thor was too dull and insipid to sustain a multi-volume epic, and Nynaeve annoyed the hell out of me.

Jordan is too attached to his babies. I would have much preferred it if he had performed a cull on them now and again. (Have any of the main characters died yet?)
Gave up midway through vol. 3, it had taken me about 9 months to get that far into it. If I have nothing else to do, I can read a 600 page book in a day, so it's not that I am a slow reader.
And my opinion of the characters matches yours exactly.
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