Just finished the A Memory Of Light prologue.

And wow.

Simply. Wow.

In my earlier post about the titbits released, I mentioned that there was nothing much to shout about.

But the full prologue, a super-duper long one divided into many parts (Talmanes's POV alone has four-five parts, I think), just blew me away.

Detouring a bit, I'm re-reading Towers of Midnight and The Gathering Storm for comparison's sake, because I found Towers oddly inconsistent in writing style, which distracted me from the main story at hand. Maybe I'm just being anal about this.

[And yes, 'anal' can be worked into regular conversation without it being dirty.]

Despite the filleropening on Jarid Sarand, the prologue jumps straight into the events that ended the last book (Towers). It's very, very fast-paced, moving from Talmanes trying to halt the Trolloc invasion of Andor, to Slayer (a character I'm very interested in) having a meeting in a town within the Blight. We also get to see the Forsaken (always interesting stuff), and plus, somebody got bloody promoted!!

I'll just leave it at that; my jaw dropped.

And the flow is much better, this time around. Granted, things move a lot quicker than they normally would, but reading this feels like Jordan again. Well done, Brandon Sanderson.

Very well done.

Although I'm kinda not digging you at the moment, because you made Talmanes die really slowly. And you're giving me hope that he will survive the entire thing, because even Masema had a death that was better-written than this.

[I wanna see Talmanes laugh more!]

Cannot flippin' wait for January 8, 2013. Hope the majority of us are not part of the undead by then.

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I feel quite alone sometimes.

Sure, I still have my mom.

But I feel very isolated, very far removed from other non-familial people occasionally.

Like now, fr'instance.

I mean, okay, I may be a bit anti-social, but not to the extent where I blatantly insult them or pointedly ignore them or anything like that. I think I'm still generally nice to peoples, and I make it a point to scrunch my face upsmile whenever eye contact's made.

I don't exactly know what I'm doing wrong, apart from being a bit introverted. It's not that I don't talk to people.

And sometimes when people walk by my place (they're not looking for me, by the way) I do stare at my laptop, but I've seen other people do it. It's called FOCUSSING ON WORK.

If from the upper corners of my eyes I see them look down at me, then I'll look up and smile back. Half the time when I do initiate the look up, they're not looking back at me either, so I can't see what the big deal is.

Sigh. Off-topic, I'm on leave today and I had to spend two hours (at home) staring at payroll, and just this evening, another two hours in office to take an overseas call.

This week really could be better :S

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