THE EYE OF THE WORLD / Robert Jordan / Book Review / Brian Lee Durfee (The Wheel Of Time)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2020
- Wherein our hero Durfee gives a very unique review of The Eye Of The World book #1 in The Wheel Of Time by Robert Jordan and also dishes some stellar writing advice. #RobertJordan #EyeOfTheWorld #WheelOfTime
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I remember reading the first pages of The Eye of the World and thinking "this is what I've been looking for." Fantasy with a cast of real people. It's still my favorite, second only to The Shadow Rising. But if I hadn't loved The Eye of the World, I wouldn't have read TSR. So it's a tie.
Sometime around 1998, I wanted to start reading fantasy, but didn't know where to start. A guy I worked with recommended The Eye of the World and Wizard's First Rule. I read The Eye of the World, and I have never looked back. It was my doorway into fantasy, and therefore holds a special place in my heart.
I’m reading eye of the world for the first time for my book club right now and I’m loving it. Took a while to get into but it’s incredible and I love seeing all the similarities and contrasts to LOTR
Your passion really sells it for me. I'd like to read The Wheel of Time. It sounds amazing!!! I'd also like to read The Forgetting Moon as well. I like grim-dark with a good story and that sounds like that is what that is.
Try it. But first law is more grimdark.
Thanks for the writing advice durfee. Im currently in the process of writing my first novel and its been tough.
Keep writing and never give up
BRIAN LEE DURFEE Reviews aye aye captain
Hi Brian, thank you for all your videos! You've been such an inspiration to me. I love the Darrell K. Sweet covers too; so much so that I bought the entire series in paperback with the original covers!
Thanks
Awesome you're reviewing this series. I'm doing my first read through right now and I love it. Currently on A Crown of Swords.
Cool. Let me know your thoughts
I’ve read the books from the beginning, wail moan and hurt when Robert Jordan died. Every time I reread I see so much more.
Some call it the lull or slog, I typically refer to it as the doldrums of WOT. For me, it's mainly POD through COT and I feel it's better now that the series is finished since you can just read straight through knowing the pace will pick back up. It was brutal when it felt like they were wandering aimlessly and you had to wait two or more years to find out what happened next.
Nice review,thanks alot !!!😄
I've never read the WoT books and am certainly not a fanboy, but that original cover is one of the best fantasy covers ever made
I miss Walden books. That place was my childhood
Agree, bought the first in 1990, have all original editions. Read read read the series and find new things every time
We're old. Sigh
I absolutely love Wheel Of Time. I am currently on book ten, Crossroads Of Twilight, and for about 150 pages, I was struggling. Now, somehow, I am enjoying it again.
Which do you like more, the original cover or the 30th anniversary cover?
I just started the series. Just over halfway through The Eye of the World.
Bought another copy because the copy I have has such a horrible cover in comparison to the Darrell K. Sweet cover.
The Sweet covers are a big part of what attracted me to the series originally, i have spent a lot of time over the years studying those covers, I really hate the newer covers they've done for the series, particularly the superbly ugly ones they did after the show came out. Glad I have a whole set of all of the original covers which are all beautiful paintings. Love this series been thinking to reread them myself probably going to pick up the audiobooks though this time
Good watch. Subbed. I’m on book 3 now (first reading), enjoying it. I don’t like the new covers :) can definitely see his writing influence on this current age of fantasy writers.
OMG! I used to love WAldenbooks. I miss it. I miss all book stores though. Borders was great too. Can't wait for this TV series.
I practically lived at Waldenbooks and B Dalton at my local mall. I miss those days.
@@jimwojton7369 Our mall didn't have a B. Dalton, but I went to several in other stores and I loved those too.
14:00 do you give spoilers about the whole series or just the book you're reviewing? Because I'm just 3 books in totally loving it and now too scared to continue watching so a nice short response would help :)
Just spoilers about who dies in this book. No spoilers for the series in this video
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS ok good. I'll warch it to the end then
Guess I will be reading the eye of world this year it will be my first time reading it 🧐🤔
Alot of the older cover art for books (even gamea) are cool to me, even if they are gaudy or bad etc...
The new 'Eye of the World' cover is🤨 ambiguous like a romantic autobiography. Like a self portrait of a self-obsessed poet. The classic eye of the world cover screams "epic!"😎👹🤯. As always Barakha 🙌🏾 Shalom 🌾🙏🏾.
I’m a little surprised you’re just getting to this now. I was slightly late on WOT, having been busy with school and work, I wasn’t reading as much fiction in the early 90s. I started reading WOT in ‘98, I think Crown of Swords was out in pb and I bought Path of Daggers when it debuted in hardback. I’ve also read those first seven or so about four or five times, and the entire series twice I think, at least the Sanderson collabs are twice. WOT is in my top five series of all-time and Jordan is definitely a huge influence for me as well. BTW, I'm saving your videos about those influential books/writers. I hadn't thought of a more analytical approach until hearing your advice and I greatly appreciate it. Jordan's exposition, along with Tolkien and Martin is some of my favorite.
i read them a lot when ii was younger. are you surprised it took me so long to review them?
BRIAN LEE DURFEE Reviews I meant in the context of how influential you consider EOTW and WOT in general. I was surprised when this review showed up in my feed, because I would have thought you had reviewed it already. Not a criticism at all, and it’s cool to hear more of your impressions about the book and series.
I quit the series about halfway through book 7
I hear you. It gets long-winded between books 6-10.
It gets real boring. Should been 10 books maximum.
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS Yup you can learn how to write and how to not write from these.
What the hell? I just bought 30th anniversary edition and that inside illustration is missing. There's map of the world on both inner sides as if I needed it twice.
There is an ILLEGAL amount of charchters and also an illegal amount of tucking brands, folding arms under breast, calling some one a nerfherder, woolhead, sniffing, etc...
I could never get myself to read it. Don't take this amiss, but, to me, it always seemed a blatant photocopy of The Lord of the Rings. The story, the characters, even the names are unapologetically identical. I don't like that.