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11. Number: The Language of Science by Tobias Dantzig.

I'm slogging through Winter's Heart; the braid-tugging and skirt smoothing are still there, and most of the women characters fear another woman will pop out of her dresses lately, they're so low cut. No wonder they want to make WoT into a tv series.

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13. Winter's Heart (WoT #9) - not bad, started to drag about half way through, but pretty good finish. It's getting hard to remember all the characters, even reading them back-to-back. I couldn't imagine having multi-year gaps between volumes at this point. Sometimes I have to find a WoT wiki just to understand who is who and what they're doing.

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Oh good, I'm still on the fourth and am constantly wiki-omg characters.

 

Do character interactions between genders ever get better? Every single one, even if a character it just THINKING about someone of another gender, is completely saturated with "men are so stupid!" or "women are so mysterious and manipulating!" It's such childish and frustrating to read.

 

I will say though it's really cool to be reading this on the heels of someone else doing it as well.

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As of WH, the gender interactions haven't noticeably changed as far as I can tell. Some of the characters are married now, and have mellowed a bit, but otherwise the interactions are the same. It just isn't as irritating anymore, probably because I skip to the dialogue, and those kinds of statements don't typically show up in characters' speech.

 

Upon reflection, as far as Aes Sedai are concerned, they are mysterious and manipulating, deliberately so, much like the Bene Gesserit of the Dune series (but not as effective in their machinations, IMO). The reader is exposed to so many characters that are AS, AS-wannabes, or just interacting with AS on a regular basis that most of the characters would be heavily titled toward the women-are-mysterious-and-manipulating point of view. The women characters are written as wanting to be seen that way.

 

I'm going to start Crossroads of Twilight in a couple of days. I'm getting tired of fantasy, having been at it since December, but I'm not quitting until I'm done with WoT. Then I'll probably steer clear of any fantasy stories for a good long while.

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Oh good, I'm still on the fourth and am constantly wiki-omg characters.

 

Things are just ramping up on that front.

 

 

 

Upon reflection, as far as Aes Sedai are concerned, they are mysterious and manipulating, deliberately so, much like the Bene Gesserit of the Dune series (but not as effective in their machinations, IMO).

 

No, they really don't hold a candle to the Bene Gesserit as far as scheming goes. The Bene Gesserit were a whole lot better at reading the lay of the land and reacting to it even if they failed at times. They lost their way thanks to Leto II, but they managed to survive and continue scheming despite it all.

 

The Aes Sedai are much more subject to infighting, as the very concept of Ajahs led to both internal conflict and tunnel vision. And that's even before taking into account the whole Black Ajah problem. A good chunk of the difficulties for the protagonists in the books basically stems from Aes Sedai dysfunction, arrogance, and questionable leadership.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince /JK Rowling

 

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1. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / JK Rowling

2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / JK Rowling

3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban / JK Rowling

4. Mistress / James Patterson

5. Revival / Stephen King

6. Throne of Glass / Sarah J. Maas

7. Crown of Midnight / Sarah J. Maas

8. Heir of Fire / Sarah J. Maas

9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo / Stieg Larsson

10. The Girl who Played with Fire / Stieg Larsson

11. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest / Stieg Larsson (9/2)

12. The Night Circus / Erin Morgenstern (9/6)

13. The Gods of Guilt / Michael Connelly (9/24)

14. The Girl in the Spider's Web / David Lagercrantz (10/4)

15. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire / JK Rowling (10/12)

16. Flawed / Cecilia Ahern (10/27)

17. The Lincoln Lawyer / Michael Connelly (10/30)

18. 9 Dragons / Michael Connelly (11/5)

19. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / JK Rowling (11/17)

20. The Reversal / Michael Connelly (11/26)

21. The Closers / Michael Connelly (12/2)

22. 1984 / George Orwell (12/4)

23. Echo Park / Michael Connelly (12/14)

 

I'm jumping on this train very late this year. I know I've read more than this but the titles have fallen out of my head!

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