Ali promises to keep recommending fantasy audiobooks on the channel (2020)
promise · status: open (updates through 2020, not reported done) · last event: progress update (2020-12-24) · owner: Ali
About: The Wheel of Time
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-30 | promised | Ali says that once he has finished The Wheel of Time and started more series, he will keep recommending loads of fantasy audiobooks on the channel as he goes along. | Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen 00:15:42 |
| 2020-12-20 | progress update | Ali has listened to fantasy audiobooks since about 2017, starting with Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn at 1x; in 2020 he finished the 14-book Wheel of Time series, begun in March 2019. | 20 Lessons that Improved My Life 00:16:02 |
| 2020-12-24 | progress update | Newcomers to fantasy should not start with The Wheel of Time, which is slow and long, Ali says, but with Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. | 15 Books To Read This Year 00:11:13 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali has been listening to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series on Audible nonstop for many months, perhaps more than a year, and has just finished book six. — 00:09:49
- 2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: Robert Jordan has died, Ali thinks, and Brandon Sanderson took over writing the last few books of The Wheel of Time. (hedged) — 00:09:49
- 2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali thinks his order was a good one: Mistborn is a good gateway drug into fantasy, long but high-impact, while the Stormlight Archive is very long and can be slow, so a background in fantasy helps you get through it. — 00:11:18
- 2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: The Wheel of Time is absolutely huge, with over 12 books, Ali thinks, starting with The Eye of the World; he is on book seven and avoids looking at the titles so as not to meet spoilers. (hedged) — 00:11:47
- 2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: The first Wheel of Time book follows Rand, Perrin and Mat from Emond's Field in the Two Rivers, a tiny village like the Shire in The Lord of the Rings; a woman wizard tells them they are chosen ones, and after an attack they set off to train and defeat the Dark One. — 00:12:45
- 2020-12-24 · 15 Books To Read This Year — Ali found The Wheel of Time really good and the last four or five books absolute masterpieces. — 00:10:43