It was great to go on this journey again and stay with it to the end. Robert Jordan finished this journey in 1990. I took it for the first time in 1995, but I wasn’t even an adult then. Thirty years later, experiencing it again gave me a new perspective. I’ve also come to terms with the fact that if I don’t write shit down, I’m definitely going to misplace and forget it.<\/p>\n
This time around, I feel like there was less braid-tugging, arm crossing, and other annoying linguistic quirks than I remembered. I’m not saying that every chapter was a well-balanced work of art, but overall it was a very smooth and well-flowing first installment. Now I\u2019m wondering if those tics don\u2019t really ramp up until the later books. I did get partway through The Fires of Heaven<\/em>, after all.<\/p>\n Will I make it to the end of the series? Light, if I try to think that far ahead, I\u2019ll never make it. All I can say for now is: hello again, The Great Hunt<\/em> — I’m coming for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was great to go on this journey again and stay with it to the end. Robert Jordan finished this journey in 1990. I took it for the first time in 1995, but I wasn’t even an adult then. Thirty years later, experiencing it again gave me a new perspective. I’ve also come to terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-eye-of-the-world","book-the-eye-of-the-world"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wot.jesse-carroll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}