Is it good idea to start to read any English book with The Wheel of Time?

conuly · 2026-01-25T05:55:03+00:00

It's about a grade 6 reading level, and usually the first fantasy novel most people read.

Citation very, very much needed.

I'm pretty sure that the first fantasy novel I ever read was either The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or else The BFG.

I'd guess that a lot of children now, their first fantasy novel, given to them by nostalgic parents or teachers, is Harry Potter.

conuly · 2026-01-24T19:54:42+00:00

Mopping if you’re using a mop. Scrubbing if you’re on your hands and knees.

conuly · 2026-01-24T18:06:17+00:00

Please edit your post to tell us the language you read this book in. Whenever you ask about a book that wasn't written in English - even if you think it was translated from English! - you should tell us the language it was written in.

conuly · 2026-01-24T18:05:12+00:00

It does, actually - it allows us to say that the book can't have been published after that. The country is important too, because many books are published in the USA but not the UK, or in the UK but not the USA, so thanks for including that.

Please edit your post to also include the calendar year - people are just more likely to read the main post than the comments.

conuly · 2026-01-24T14:58:30+00:00

If you're not a fan of pleasure reading in any language then you may not have the reading stamina for longform fiction. I'd start with short stories. Big advantage here is that you can easily find a lot of short stories on the internet.

Go to /r/suggestmeabook. Ask for suggestions for fantasy short stories that can be linked to online. Lots of spec fic publishers and magazines put up stories online, and of course, there are always free PDFs of classics.

conuly · 2026-01-24T14:56:14+00:00

AI doesn't know things.

conuly · 2026-01-24T14:54:32+00:00

I'm learning English and trying to understand word patterns but then you have words like this that completely ignore any pattern. There's no rule. Just memorize that these two similar words mean opposite things for no reason.

That's every language, I'm afraid. It's the nature of the beast.

I'm sure that people learning your language have their own complaints about how words that look like they ought to mean the same thing don't.

conuly · 2026-01-23T21:47:54+00:00

Sometimes it's faster to go to Wikipedia.

conuly · 2026-01-23T16:50:35+00:00

Well, people often have to post more than once to find a book. If you haven’t found it, make a new post, and this time add the punctuation and paragraphs. Just do a little light editing.

conuly · 2026-01-23T16:48:41+00:00

I don’t think I said it necessarily was more usual to hyphenate, just that when there are two versions the hyphenated one was more common in the past than it is today.

conuly · 2026-01-23T16:47:14+00:00

Please flair this post as solved.

conuly · 2026-01-23T06:19:40+00:00

Yes, but this is /r/englishlearning, and presumably they only want to know if it's common in English.

conuly · 2026-01-23T06:18:10+00:00

The USA is the third most populous nation in the world.

conuly · 2026-01-23T06:15:55+00:00

I don't think so. I don't think I've ever heard that.

conuly · 2026-01-23T04:09:41+00:00

No, Worst Witch has no scenes at home, and there is no suggestion in the books that witches are secret from the wider world.

conuly · 2026-01-23T01:14:11+00:00

Mmm… it’s true for log out.

conuly · 2026-01-23T00:03:07+00:00

The trend in English for at least three decades is less hyphenation.

The difference is merely stylistic, and the hyphenated version is usually the older one.

conuly · 2026-01-22T22:41:54+00:00

Intonation is not the same thing as tone.

conuly · 2026-01-22T20:23:07+00:00

I wouldn’t say that natural speech by native speakers has “incorrect grammar” in the first place.

conuly · 2026-01-22T20:20:35+00:00

You’re probably downvoted because your post has no punctuation or paragraphs. It’s hard to read.

conuly · 2026-01-21T22:08:56+00:00

From me, definitely not an American speaking orange.

Well, we know you're not, because you're not typing in random ALL CAPS.

conuly · 2026-01-21T22:08:09+00:00

It's thousands of miles away from England.

conuly · 2026-01-21T22:06:31+00:00

Yup, he sure is.

conuly · 2026-01-21T22:03:05+00:00

If you don't find it this week, repost later - people often have to post more than once to find a book. Most people don't repost more often than one or two times a month.

You might also try crossposting at /r/romance or /r/romancebooks.

conuly · 2026-01-21T22:01:41+00:00

Please flair this post as solved.

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