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This series is widely and wildly popular, despite major flaws in writing style, many deplorable characters (and some of those are the good guys), and juvenile view of interpersonal relationships.
It is a Soap Opera in format, and just about as tedious; however, the overall world-building and basic plot-line were interesting despite its abysmal deficiencies.
It is a Soap Opera in format, and just about as tedious; however, the overall world-building and basic plot-line were interesting despite its abysmal deficiencies.
In a long gone past, or maybe a remote future, or in another universe, the identity of mankind comes illustrated by the rise of a man twisting the world around himself, and the way the world both resists and lets go. Which one controls the other ? Has anyone ever had any control ?
Read about Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn ; read about the world as it once was, and as it then became ; read about what mankind was, is and ever will be.
Read about Rand Al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn ; read about the world as it once was, and as it then became ; read about what mankind was, is and ever will be.
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Robert Jordan was born James Oliver Rigney Jr. on October 17, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.S. in physics from The Citadel in 1974. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam with the U.S. Army and won The Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star and two Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. From 1974 to 1978, he worked for the show more U.S. Civil Service as a nuclear engineer. During the 1980's, he began writing several novels for the Conan the Barbarian series that was created in the 1930's by Robert E. Howard. He also wrote under many pseudonyms, which include the historical novels The Fallon Blood (1980), The Fallon Pride (1981) and The Fallon Legacy (1982) as Reagan O'Neal; and the western Cheyenne Riders (1982) as Jackson O'Reilly. He wrote articles for periodicals for the Library Journal, Fantasy Review and Science Fiction Review as Chang Lung. He was the author of the Wheel of Time series and The Towers of Midnight. He died on September 16, 2007 following a battle with cardiac amyloidosis. Jordan was cremated and his ashes buried in the churchyard of St. James Church in Goose Creek, outside Charleston. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Wheel of Time Books 1-11
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