Friday again already? How time flies when you’re not sleeping regularly… but I wouldn’t know anything about that, not with my stupendous skills of time management.
Anyway, per Anda’s request, here’s our second installment of Bad Book Cover Fridays – from Robert Jordan’s notoriously lengthy Wheel of Time saga, it’s the cover of the twelfth volume, The Gathering Storm:
“FUUUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUU STOOOOOOOOOORM”
Watch out – someone (we presume the storm) already ruined his house. Make fun of his skinny jeans and sausage-casing-like tunic and he might just punch you with his tiny fists.
Presumably we should all be stirred to action against willfully destructive storms – especially those gathering ones, they’re the worst – by his righteous indignation, but… nope, still can’t get over the t-rex arms.
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And I’m once more reduced to helpless laughter. I’m actually familiar with this one because the flatmate reads the series and she had this one awhile back. Anyway, I love the faux-Scandinavian bits on the house in the background, in contrast with the…faux medieval costume on the guy and the…you know, I can’t actually think of a time and place where women ever wore that style of clothing, although I suppose there probably was one.
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Oh man, I actually haven’t seen this cover yet. I am now very glad for my preemptive* strike, in the form of giving up on reading the damn series.
*wow. I did not know it was spelled like that.
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Maureen –
I can’t actually think of a time and place where women ever wore that style of clothing, although I suppose there probably was one.
Renaissance faires!Anda – Why’d you end up quitting it? The usual reasons of extreme length for little to no payoff?
Also, apparently this was the mock-up of the cover:
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I started reading them in 6 th grade, so there was plenty of books already on the shelves- up to 8 at that point I think. But I caught up too fast, and the resulting time gap between 9 and 10 was enough for me to forget everything- including that I read the series until a few years ago when I heard that the author had passed away. It’s a series with a lot of neat bits, and a whole lot of airport fantasy silliness, but I’d still at some point like to go back and read them.When I have time to read the 30,000 or so pages. R
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the resulting time gap between 9 and 10 was enough for me to forget everything
I HATE IT WHEN THAT HAPPENS. Although I must admit that Wikipedia summaries can make catching up again a lot easier nowadays. Still, committing to series is terrifying.
I do hope you get the time to go back to it though! Nothing like plunging back in again to a world you haven’t visited for years.
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Not anytime within the next few years. Good ol’ senior thesis is starting next year. There will be no time for such pursuits.
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