Will this time be different?

[nwhiker]

Oh man. It was the 90s and I didn't have kids yet, so pre-1997 and I was well behind the current release of when I was reading, so I suspect probably 95/96: I started Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I remember tearing through the first books... Well, the first 3. About half way through book 4, some of the plot points just started to bug me. And then came book 5. And I found it... awful.I bogged down, the book was due at the library -actual! hard cover! book!- so I returned it, and didn't bother getting it again.

A few months ago, the series having been completed despite Jordan's death, thanks to Brandon Sanderson, I figured I'd try again. I really had liked the first books... Anyhow, I did. Starting from the beginning, because while I remember that I'd liked the books, and that I'd bogged down, I was pretty fuzzy on some of the details of the plots and it just made sense to start over.

And so I tore through books 1 through 4, with a lot of eye rolling annoyance at what had bugged me the previous time. And I'm in the middle of book 5 and... I'm bogging down.

It's pretty the same OMG, I can't believe this shit! Just stop it and get on with the story.

Anyhow, it's frustrating. I think and I hope I'll get through this time, at least through book 5, because I'm listening on audiobook, and the readers are excellent.