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Robert Jordan’s epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time, took over two decades to complete, comprising 15 books (including the prequel), or 11,916 pages, or 4,410,036 words, or 461.4 hours (for the audiobooks). I don’t put those stats there to frighten you, but rather to give you an appreciation of the epic 114-week-long read along that it took to read all 15 books as a group.
Yeah, we’re that kind of crazy.
What follows are our comments not only on the series, but on the experience of reading this epic fantasy as a group at ~100 pages a week. We welcome your thoughts in the comments.
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2015/03/114-week-long-wheel-time-read-along/
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The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand.
It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust.
You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode.
So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
"A Universe From Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 (16:50-17:23)
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| 26/03/2015 10:25 | |
E se si facesse una cosa del genere fra noi del forum?
Una rilettura insieme con pagine fisse, settimana per settimana per poi parlarne? Potrebbe rianimare un po' il tutto ![[SM=x494541]](http://laruotadeltempo.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/wot_forum/smilini/sorriso.gif)
![[SM=x494607]](http://laruotadeltempo.altervista.org/_altervista_ht/wot_forum/smilini/littleaesedai.gif) Signorconte "Kneel and swear to the Lord Dragon, or you will be knelt".
Mazrim Taim, after the battle of Dumai's Wells
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| 18/11/2015 00:47 | |
That's a hell lot of reading you peeps did!.
I've always loved the "after-read" that one can do togheter with a reading-group. Getting togheter, drinking something with some snacks to go along, Killer time!.
I've yet to finish tWOL thou, it's really annoying that I or my friends can't get our hands on the 12 book!. We have considered paying 90€ off a shady online place to get an italian version of the book but at the end we dicided not to and wait some more time.
All the books togheter, as you mentioned on the opening post, are a LOT of words. One can only admired Robert Jordan for not printing the single books into 3 and get more money. It really shows how much loved he had for his work.
It took me some time to read all 11 books so far (months): a funny thing that one can find on my bookshelf when looking at the books of tWOT are the "aging" process in them. The earlier ones have white pages, while 3 of them are yellowish and the last two ones are white. All of the books were new at the time of buying them but when I was reading some of them summer had come and I was bringing them to the beach :P humidity and summer weather made it so the few books that were read while on summer aged way faster that the other lucky bastards ^^ |
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