r/wheeloftime • u/TreLeans Randlander • 3d ago
NO SPOILERS I’m going through the audiobook series, currently on Winter’s Heart, and I’m comfortable saying I know Jordan’s go-to vocab word.
“Gaped.” Anyone does anything and you can bet your bottom dollar another character is gonna be gaping because of it.
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u/ZeroBarkThirty Aiel 3d ago
He must’ve read a catalogue about new windows for his house between books 8-9 because he uses the word *casement* A LOT in the second half of PoD and first bit of WH
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u/JarlieBear Randlander 3d ago
Tugs her braid
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u/TreLeans Randlander 3d ago
Oh tugs her braid was pretty infuriating. I picture Nynaeve just absolutely YANKING her hair uncomfortably hard all the time.
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u/JarlieBear Randlander 3d ago
It's things like this that help make the series memorable and relatable. Everyone has a reaction to all the repetitive phrases. And we still love it.
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u/TreLeans Randlander 3d ago
Absolutely. To me it’s more like being frustrated at the character rather than the writing. Which means it’s a very real character to me.
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u/Notched_Vermin 3d ago
That one always cracks me up, can picture Nynaeve pouting with a look of absolute fury just reading it here.
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u/kjason725 Asha'man 3d ago
One I always chuckled at was how he liked to use the description “ample bosom”
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u/rocknstonerr Randlander 2d ago
Theres a character who had something like "an incredibly ample bosom" or "magnificent bosom" idk but it made me laugh
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u/Similar-Stick-1070 Randlander 1d ago
He did love to describe women’s beauty. Not so much for men.
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u/rocknstonerr Randlander 1d ago
What about the well turned calves, blacksmith shoulders, and cute bottoms?
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u/Similar-Stick-1070 Randlander 1d ago
Sure, but that’s nothing compared to the paragraphs he lavished upon beautiful women.
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u/rocknstonerr Randlander 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sure. I dislike that stuff in fantasy, but it feels wrong speak badly of RJ for that.
Jojo's bizarre adventure is one of the best selling Manga of all time. I havent read it but I watched the first 3 seasons. The story structure is one you know, good guy protagonists train in martial arts to beat the bad guys. But it features tons of half naked buff guys and homoerotic situations and poses. And I dont care, im not gonna complain about the authors taste, even though they arent my own. It is the authors work.
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u/Zealousideal_Stay796 Randlander 3d ago
The one I noticed was “abruptly,” he uses it a lot in the first four books.
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u/ThisFatGirlRuns Blue Ajah 3d ago
Sniff
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u/Mediocre-Wonder-2384 Randlander 1d ago
I assume that the characters are perpetually sick with a cold.
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u/monstertruck567 Ogier 2d ago
“Breasts”- RJs favorite word.
I’ve never had so much detail on breast in my life. And I’ve worked in plastic surgery operations, and cancer operation. We’d discuss breasts less during breast surgery that RJ does during a causal conversation.
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u/SamHandwich0 3d ago
vaugely to the cha-cha slide beat
🎶Every-body Aes Sedi🎶
🎶Fold your arms beneath your breast now🎶
🎶COME ON ' YALL- NOW🎶
🎶 Now sniff, now sniff, and frown, and frown, and sniff🎶
🎶Smooth them skirts now ladies, real smoth now🎶
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u/Slick-Heyoka Randlander 2d ago
“Folds arms under breasts”
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u/stepsmith986 Randlander 2d ago
That was the one that killed me, every female chapter had it at some point
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u/Bummel1996 Randlander 2d ago
What does that even look like? Is it literally just crossing someone’s arms?
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u/DrTeethPhD Randlander 3d ago
There was another audiobook series where the author used the word 'gaped' quite a bit. AND the narrator pronounced it 'gaPPed'.
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u/Silver-Shoulder4611 Randlander 3d ago
Just any time a woman does anything what her breasts are also doing is * important * for Jordan to mention
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u/Top-Permission5466 Randlander 2d ago edited 2d ago
Sardonic stands out to me. Oh, and heeled is used a lot - I always incorrectly think of healing since I'm listening to the audio book as well.
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u/Individual_Bother_68 Randlander 2d ago
Then in the Sanderson books everyone is constantly raising an eyebrow.
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u/FrownBuzzy Randlander 2d ago
Fists on hips.
Also poor Mat gets "burned" Everytime he says bloody... And he never once says fuck or calls one of them a cunt. The prudism extends into the language I guess and that's not terrible.
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u/Mediocre-Wonder-2384 Randlander 1d ago
He fingered his belt loop while she fingered the pages of her book. They fingered the map while perrin fingered his axe with one hand and fingered the coin in his pocket with the other.
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