You're welcome Netta. I will just echo Roger's comments that it is a very, that is very, long series, and you must begin at the beginning. Jordan did not, and Sanderson does not, do backstory. I will also second Roger's comment that you shouldn't let one bad experience turn you off to even one genre, let alone two. Evan ----- Original Message ----- From: Dornetta To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 12:55 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Memory of Light Hey Evan; I remember reading a guy who died before he finished a very popular (this was during a discussion with a friend of my husband whom I have a great deal of respect for). Anyway he was talking about this series that the man couldn't finish and about the guy who took over writing the series and how I should "at-least try reading it, Netta" Anyway this friend has subsequently died and I have wondered for many, many months who the man was that he was referring about. I went into our local Books-a-Million store and asked one of the employees about the author but she had no idea who I was talking about (I think that day, it was high school working night because no one in the store was helpful) Anyway, what I want to say is a GREAT BIG THANK YOU! Because I now know the name of the series as well as the author and I just might read the series in memory of good ol' Mr. Ed. Netta "Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder