I read ridiculously fast and always have (My mom stopped buying me Babysitters Club books because I'd have it finished in the 20 minute car ride between the store and home), so I'm always looking for books that are thick that will last me more than a few hours.
While loitering in the sci-fi section, seeing if there was a new Star Wars book (in a time before I had internet. OMG dark ages), I saw the Wheel of Time. And the books were ridiculously thick. Like, breaks the front cover off of the paperback thick. And the cover art was absolutely ridiculous (there's a website devoted to mocking them (http://linuxmafia.com/~pam/cover_art.html)), but I was in college majoring in poli sci and if I didn't find something other than Aristotle and de Toqueville to read my head was going to explode. So I picked up the first book, was kind of "eh" about it until the boys got separated and then hoooooooooly cow. I was up until 4 in the morning three nights running trying to finish it and went back to the store to get the next one not a week later.
I read fast enough that I caught up to where Robert Jordan was still writing them, so I waited anxiously for Winter's Heart to come out (finding my very first online chat group along the way), and bemoaning how nothing was happening for books at a time.
And this year the latest book came out, things are actually Happening, and we might get a genuine End to this Damn Story.
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While loitering in the sci-fi section, seeing if there was a new Star Wars book (in a time before I had internet. OMG dark ages), I saw the Wheel of Time. And the books were ridiculously thick. Like, breaks the front cover off of the paperback thick. And the cover art was absolutely ridiculous (there's a website devoted to mocking them (http://linuxmafia.com/~pam/cover_art.html)), but I was in college majoring in poli sci and if I didn't find something other than Aristotle and de Toqueville to read my head was going to explode. So I picked up the first book, was kind of "eh" about it until the boys got separated and then hoooooooooly cow. I was up until 4 in the morning three nights running trying to finish it and went back to the store to get the next one not a week later.
I read fast enough that I caught up to where Robert Jordan was still writing them, so I waited anxiously for Winter's Heart to come out (finding my very first online chat group along the way), and bemoaning how nothing was happening for books at a time.
And this year the latest book came out, things are actually Happening, and we might get a genuine End to this Damn Story.