eating cucumbers without permission...

As we always feared, without finishing The Wheel of Time.

Finally got around to reading it -- thousand-page novels always look daunting -- and was utterly delighted. It's up there with the very best fantasy novels I've ever read.

Bonus link: Crooked Timber "seminar", including a long response by the author.

Every episode they read 4 pages of "Lord Foul's Bane", analyse it (with guest experts!), then re-enact it. Brilliant.

I stopped paying attention when the expected release date was pushed back for the fifth time, but I can finally be excited again! And by the time I've finished reading the first three over, it might actually be out...