The Eye of the World: Spoiler Filled Book Review // feat. Richard from 2toRamble // Diggerdan Reads
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Today I'm joined with Richard from @2ToRamble ! We discuss our thoughts on The Eye of the World, the first book of our favorite book series of all time The Wheel of Time written by Robert Jordan. Having now read the book for a second time. This is a conversation where we discuss our thoughts and rate the book based on the original Rambler Rating System.
Also shout out to Richard for joining me as well as to Austin for letting me steal Richard so we can nerd out over "proper book taste."
0:00 Introductions
3:35 What we are excited about on the reread
5:22 Hating on the WoT show
6:47 SPOILER WARNING
7:49 Discussing Book Editions
11:07 We can't keep track of more than 2 POVs
14:33 Overall Ratings
15:48 Emotional Impact
26:05 Green Man Tangent
29:44 Characters
43:09 We finally remember Perrin's POV
49:23 Thom Spoilers
51:11 Bayle Domon is great
52:28 Plot
1:05:00 Dialogue & Prose
1:14:12 World Building
1:19:35 Looking forward to book two
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Urgh. FINE DAN. FINE. I'll read the damn books. You can't put out a 90 minute video I'm not allowed to watch, rude.
I'll put it on top of the TBR pile...
Ah yes, you've fallen into my plan that I've had all along! Success!
You'll have to drop a recommendation of one of your favorites Benjamin, and maybe we'll have to drop our own 90 min video...
Well well well that was sooner than what I was expecting but I'm so here for it!
I'm glad I could deliver!
Nice, I'm glad you like the prose. I think Robert Jordan's prose is best for highly visual readers. IDK but people seem to be all over the place on rating it. Also it just has so much content. All the modern fantasy I read feels like fluff if it's a long book
That would make sense, for me reading often times is like "reading a movie" in my head. I agree different people prefer different styles of writing
1:13:20 for Mistborn. For me it was a low 3.5/5 for me but books 2 and 3 got successively better for me 4.25 and 4.5 respectively. 😊
It was my favorite TRILOGY until I read Age of Madness 😅
Interesting... that makes me a little less apprehensive reading the rest of the trilogy lol
That's another trilogy I need to catch up on
Mat saying he loves fighting/battles in one of the first chapters made me laugh so hard
I must have missed that, because that would be hilarious on a reread
GREAT CATCH!!!
Really great first episode for this series. I am excited to see how your re-read goes through the next books, it is crazy to think how dumb these farm people start and how far they are going to go.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I agree, I'm excited to relive the growth they all experience
Lan and rands relationship is awesome to me as well. I think you really start to notice it when Rand is going to meet the Queen and the Amerlyn Seat and Lan teaches him a simple way of walking and speaking before hand so he’s no completely defenseless against the Aies Sedia and more political people. Then on into his months of sword training. Lan knows what Rand is going to face and tries to prepare him for a duty that reminds him of his own duties and himself
Yes! Those are such great scenes, especially because they get caught off guard about his demeanor. Thinking he's "just a farm boy." I agree! I know some people joke that its "one animal pose to a plant pose" but there is something about how Jordan writes those scenes that really work for me
Damn this is long, but here I am. I started my third, possibly fourth, reread recently
Thanks for watching! Nice, I'm sure you find little details you missed each time too
Congrats! Have you read it or listened? I did both and I enjoyed the variety for rereads.
Not all the way through the video yet, but there's another prologue that isn't in the early edition hardcovers?!?!? I had to check my goofy 30th anniversary silver edition, and sure enough it's there. I don't remember my favorite character from my first read over 20 years ago, but I'm really liking Perrin's POV and his character building. I do like Rand's character POV, but I grab onto the family/father thing.
One point I think that might not get talked about much, with respect to Austin's dislike. EotW was released in 1990 and I think a lot of us that grew up in the 80's and 90's might have cut our teeth on Hobbit and LotR, can likely much more easily fall in love with Wheel of Time as opposed to people that might have picked it up for the first time in the last 10 years. There is so much good epic fantasy now, that WoT might feel dated or have a bit too much in the way of word count for "modern" readers of epic fantasy. I love the series, but I can understand how people, ala Austin, can find it boring or too long or whatever. I think the writing is very good, however the story may not hit as well for everyone these days.
Yes! Like I mentioned, I was surprised to realize it was a later addition and only discovered it because the audiobook completely skips it.
That is a great point! And it makes me really appreciate finding the WoT early into my "fantasy career." Thanks for the comment Adam!
Man eye of the world was both surprisingly fast to me but also really boring, I didn’t start to enjoy the series until book 2. Glad to hear you like it so much!
Lol such an oxymoron but I understand where you're coming from. Book 2 definitely is better than book one. Thanks for watching!
Yeah, Randland is earth, and if the hero was a woman it would be Amaterasu (Japanese folklore) instead of the dragon. At least that's what I've heard.