Month 19: No more exceptions

Month 19 of 260 (7.31 percent)

Size of list: 83,279 pages (7.1 percent greater than starting size)

Pages read: 10,310 (12.38 percent)

H-list: 2,793/22,674 (12.32 percent)

N-list: 3,484/36,116 (9.65 percent)

O-list: 4,033/24,489 (16.47 percent)

Finished: The Dragon Reborn

Reading: Perdido Street Station

This month, I finished The Dragon Reborn, the last book on my plan that I'd already read, because it counts as part of the ultimate whale of fantasy, The Wheel of Time. From here on out, it's all new stuff.

The Dragon Reborn is better than its ending lets it be. The titular character, Rand, is barely in the book. It's as if Jordan realized at the beginning that Rand was whiny and boring, so he went off on three other stories: Egwene and the other women at Tar Valon, Perrin dealing with his wolfishness, and Mat dealing with his luck. A few more characters come in, but it's really about those three, and it's fine, until the end features a big climactic battle between Sir Barely Appearing in This Book and Ba'alzagain, the Evil Lord of Being an Evil Lord, which is just boring because who cares about either one? 

I've started into Perdido Street Station, which is kind of weird because I went in assuming it takes place in New Orleans, but it doesn't, it's in New Crobuzon, so I keep watching for a sign that it's really in New Orleans. I'm only about a quarter of the way through, so more reports later.