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blackcatranch 's review for:
The Eye of the World
by Robert Jordan
After enjoying the mini series based on this book -- I picked up both the audiobook and e-book from the library. I listened to it mostly and read some sections. The audio book is narrated by two different people - a man who did "feminine" voices for the women that all sounded like Robin Williams in "Mrs Doubtfire" and a woman who sounded less cartoony.
The writing was a bit redundant -- I'm not sure that the author actually knew any horses or ever had experience with horses, but he likes describing them. That said, the only noises that he ever ascribes to them is "whickering" and he never misses an opportunity to describe utilizing hobbles on the horses whenever they stop to camp.
The overall story was a bit uneven -- the characters were a bit thin and lacked depth. Even though this was narrated in third person -- the author definitely focused on the male characters more leaving the female characters a bit flat and mysterious. I'm not sure I'll dive into the rest of the series -- but I'll happily watch the screen adaptation which varies a bit from the book, some for the better and some in ways that might have the author rolling in his grave (I like the lesbian power witch story line in the tv show - totally absent in the book).
There were so many places where the author over-explained things that it just slowed down the story. For example -- all the excessive description of filling a kettle to boil water for tea ahead of the trolloc attack. I'm frankly shocked that the author didn't describe the weave of the fabric and the vegetables used for the dye in the cloth used as a pot holder based on his tendency to over-describe irrelevant details.
If you have a lot of time on your hands and no better sci fi/fantasy world building to pursue -- check out the series... or wait and read other stuff til the next season comes out. YMMV.
The writing was a bit redundant -- I'm not sure that the author actually knew any horses or ever had experience with horses, but he likes describing them. That said, the only noises that he ever ascribes to them is "whickering" and he never misses an opportunity to describe utilizing hobbles on the horses whenever they stop to camp.
The overall story was a bit uneven -- the characters were a bit thin and lacked depth. Even though this was narrated in third person -- the author definitely focused on the male characters more leaving the female characters a bit flat and mysterious. I'm not sure I'll dive into the rest of the series -- but I'll happily watch the screen adaptation which varies a bit from the book, some for the better and some in ways that might have the author rolling in his grave (I like the lesbian power witch story line in the tv show - totally absent in the book).
There were so many places where the author over-explained things that it just slowed down the story. For example -- all the excessive description of filling a kettle to boil water for tea ahead of the trolloc attack. I'm frankly shocked that the author didn't describe the weave of the fabric and the vegetables used for the dye in the cloth used as a pot holder based on his tendency to over-describe irrelevant details.
If you have a lot of time on your hands and no better sci fi/fantasy world building to pursue -- check out the series... or wait and read other stuff til the next season comes out. YMMV.