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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
I started reading “Los Premios” by Julio Cortázar 
set in the 1950s it's about a bunch of porteños who won tickets to a cruiser ship to somewhere (they have no idea where). First chapter the passengers all meet each other at the London City cafeteria in Buenos Aires (that places still exists, it's located between Av de Mayo and Av Perú, they have a wonderful tea and deserts but are kind of expensive) then they're escorted by the police to the ship at the port, a ship called Malcolm, none of the passengers knows where they're going, the officers refuse to tell them at the first day and I'm getting some White Lotus vibes from the passengers and their companions. I'm also reading “ Tratamento de Água – Concepção, Projeto e Operação de Estações de Tratamento” a textbook on water treatment because of work related stuff.
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started the wheel of time again. Just incase someone hasn't read it lately, they added a whole butt prequel chapter to the newer versions of "Eye of the World"
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Wait what? Is this new, as of the Amazon
show, or before 
that?
I started it for the first
time around 2020, and the opening was Lews Therin in his madness 
realizing he'd just killed 
his wife and then calling down the lightning 
that broke the world.
Is that how the book series
originally opened, or did I get Spielberged?
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That's chapter 2 now. Chapter 1 is now a young Egwene chapter (age 9) where they are shearing sheep and Tam tells a bad butt story. It's been a long time since I have read Eye of the World, but I think it's a good addition and provides a bit more background. Doesn't spoil the confusion of Lews Therin going crazy
I bought the 30th anniversary hardback and it's in my copy, but not my old paperback. My buddy bought Eye of the World at an airport recently and it was in his copy too. The chapter is called Ravens
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That seems like an awful change, because starting with zero info and then the insane
Lews is such a great 
hook. So much of the story 
is built on how everyone 
misinterprets and invents their own version of what actually 
happened when Lews broke the world. So i always loved how you as the reader 
get to share in that because you also have no background.
But i guess
if it's at least a good addition, i can't really 
complain.
Is it something Robert Jordan
wrote that they added in, or is it something Saunderson came up with?
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I truly have no idea who wrote it. I think i mainly liked it bc it dunks on cenn buie. It also gives you some idea of the relevance of lews therin breaking the world
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