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Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 45-50 The audiobook also has "oaths spoken inside a ter'angreal." Very strange.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 17-23 Given how Rand mentally compares the efficacy of Selene's healing to Nynaeve's, I think Rand may not have clued in yet that Nynaeve has been unconsciously using the Power to heal people all these years. So, he parses Selene's healing as just being...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 I don't think it's particularly "special" to consider using human corpses as puppets while talking to them a sign of mental instability. Even if you want to argue it's some kind of temporary thing brought on by anger, dude's nuttier than a fruitcake in...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 In The Dragon Reborn, Rand kills a bunch of people who may be darkfriends but may also just a merchant and her guards who his paranoid mind assumes are darkfriends (the text is not at all clear on which is actually true) and then uses the OP to make...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: TGH Chapters 2-9 I think the unseen eyes may be the first signs of Rand's madness. It's definitely something we see later in the series with Asha'man who are starting to lose it.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, 49-53; TGH Pro & 1 Given what we see with Asan'gar, when the DO brings him back with a biological sex different from his gender, I would imagine trans channelers would channel according to their gender rather than biological sex. I do wonder how it would work with...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 42 - Chapter 48 Sure, but I'm talking about the effect it has on me as a reader, not how frightening it might be to any of the characters in the story. It just seems like a weird narrative choice, especially since Jordan clearly understands the phenomenon...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 42 - Chapter 48 I really kind of wish Jordan hadn't made the words Machin Shin whispers explicit. The description of a wind whispering things so awful it drives people to madness, the way he builds it up, is fantastic and super creepy, but then it sort of...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 21 - Chapter 27 When Moiraine tells Lan, she says she arranged for it last time they were at the White Tower, so it must have been before they went to Emond's Field. I've always wondered if something Min said the first time they met prompted her to do that...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 21 - Chapter 27 I've always assumed there were interactions between the two of them that happen "off screen." The conversation that...Rand, I think? overhears between them later certainly suggests it.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 21 - Chapter 27 I don't know, I thought Jordan did a really good job of keeping Verin's loyalties ambiguous in...whichever prologue she got a POV.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 14 - Chapter 20 That, but also that she loses any shred of personality or any motivation not related to her relationship with Rand as soon as she starts hanging out with him on the regular. Past the second or third book, nearly the only thing she does that...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Chapter 14 - Chapter 20 Man, I always forget how awesome Min is in the first couple books. Rereading these chapters is making me extra bitter about how horribly her character was handled in later books. I disagree. I think that Min's viewings include past events...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 Tam mentions that this is the first time he's seen Trollocs, but he's heard of them before from men who had seen them. My thinking is that he didn't realize the dark rider could be Myrddraal until after he saw the Trollocs, but I also wonder if...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 Yes! But he's really perceptive except when it comes to Egwene. There's the part where people are calling out for stories, and Rand is sure Egwene is asking for stories of adventure just to bother him, and I think that misunderstanding pretty...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 I just finished chapter 5, and I'm amazed that even after countless rereads, the whole sequence with the Trollocs still manages to keep me on the edge of my seat. Also, RIP Narg, smartest of the Trollocs.

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 The best part of this conversation is when they conclude he's probably not a Warder because there aren't Trollocs in the Two Rivers. There are so many little bits of foreshadowing like that I've been picking up this reread that I never noticed...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 Right, but their stereotypes about things in their town are accurate. I mean, seriously, there's not one Coplin or Congar who isn't a troublemaker? Maybe it's just because I've been on the wrong end of that kind of gossip, but it really bugs me...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 A bunch of stuff that caught my eye from chapter 1: I love this description of Tam and how it foreshadows the way he plays this role for Rand later in the series, to a much larger degree. Is this just random creepy feels, or is this related...

Re: 2015 Re-Readalong: EoTW, Prologue - Chapter 6 I also saw the Ringwraiths/Myrddraal parallels, as well as the Aes Sedai/Bene Gesserit ones. But I was (and am) totally down with a world where Bene Gesserit fight Ringwraiths!