The Eye of the World

Author – Robert Jordan

Paperback
Pages: 832
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: January, 1990
ISBN-10: 0812511816
ISBN-13: 978-0812511819

Yarr! There be spoilers ahead. Ye’ve been warned!

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one age,called the Third Age by some, an age yet to come, an Age long past,a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist.The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

So, it’s finally that time. Back in highschool, after I’d run out of Terry Goodkind books to read, burned myself out on Terry Brooks and filled my boots with Salvatore, I finally caved and gave into my friends’ advice to read Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World. I was a stubborn ass, though, and knew it wouldn’t be up to snuff, knew Jordan wasn’t fit to clean Goodkind’s laundry.

Oh, what a fool I was, at least in retrospect.
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