| The wheel of time series by Robert Jordan is very popular.
11 books in it so far.
It's almost like Lord of the Rings, cept a lot more hip.
I read books one to 6, then got bogged down on book 7. (7 to 10 the pace changed some)
But they are a lot of fun. The best thing about it is this farm boy that don't know much of nothing is the Dragon reborn, the guy who is supposed to rise and fight of the coming of the dark one, and he has all these powers.
He starts shooting white light out of his hands and smokes some bad trolls things.
Plus he learns how to sword fight, etc.
His only problem is the prophecy says the they are on a wheel and that history repeats itself forever. They are on a 10,000 year time loop, (or there abouts) and history keeps repeating itself over and over.
No one can break the loop. He will fight the Dark One, then go insane and kill everyone he loves after he defeats the Dark One.
And the cycle starts over, into eternity.
So, you have our hero, who is getting stronger and stronger, and doing more things, gaining more power, and we are happy for this, cause he has to fight the Dark One,
but at the same time, we are going "oh no!", all these peeps we are getting attached to, are going to wind up dead when he goes insane at the end.
He knows he will go insane, he knows he is on the wheel, but can't do nothing about it.
So, the reader is left with some hope, that this will be the last loop, and that SOMEHOW, our hero will pull it off, defeat the Dark One, remain sane,
break out of the 10,000 years loop they are in, and move on into normal time, a time that does not repeat itself.
But we might get smoked and get given a cheeser ending, where he don't break out, does go crazy, and destroys the entire world again.
A lot of suspence, I can't wait for Jordan to finish the series.
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The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
With this phrase, millions of readers have entered a world strikingly real, rich in detail and complexity—the world of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time. A world of kings, queens, and Aes Sedai—women who can tap the True Source and wield the One Power, which turns the Wheel and drives the universe: a world where the war between Light and Shadow is fought every day.
At the moment of Creation, the Creator bound the Dark One away from the world of humankind, but more than three thousand years ago, Aes Sedai, then both men and women, unknowingly bored into that prison outside of time. The Dark One was able to touch the world only lightly before the hole was soon sealed over. But the Dark One's taint settled on saidin, the male half of the Power, and every male Aes Sedai went mad. In the Breaking of the World they destroyed civilization and changed the very face of the earth, sinking mountains beneath the sea and bringing new seas where land had been.
Now only women bear the title Aes Sedai. Commanded by their Amyrlin Seat and divided into seven Ajahs named by color, they rule the great island city of Tar Valon, where their White Tower stands, and are bound by the Three Oaths, fixed into their bones with saidar, the female half of the Power: To speak no word that is not true, to make no weapon for one man to kill another, and never to use the One Power against another except as a weapon against Shadowspawn or, in the last extreme, of defending her own life or that of her Warder or another sister.
Men still are born who can learn to channel the Power, or worse, who will channel one day whether they try to or not. Doomed to madness, destruction, and death by the taint of the saidin, they are hunted down by the Aes Sedai and gentled, cut off forever from the Power for the safety of the world. No man goes to this willingly. Even if they survive the hunt, they seldom survive long after gentling.
For more than three thousand years, while empires rose and fell, nothing has been so feared as a man who can channel. But for all those three thousand years there have been the Prophecies of the Dragon, that the seal of the Dark One's prison will weaken and he will touch the world once more, and the Dragon, who sealed up that hole, will be Reborn to face the Dark One again. A child, born in sight of Tar Valon on the slopes of Dragonmount, will grow up to be the Dragon Reborn, the only hope of humanity in the Last Battle.
A world of kings and queens, nations and wars, where the White Tower rules only Tar Valon but even kings and queens are wary of Aes Sedai machinations. A world where the Shadow and the Prophecies loom together.
This is the world Robert Jordan invites all to enter. This is the world of The Wheel of Time. |
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I heard they were planning on making one other one, and a prequel, though I am not sure if that is entirely true. I wouldn't have any objections to that though 
