tgs and tom combined timeline

[9kindsofidiot]

Long-time lurker here. Thought I might share with everyone the rough timeline I put together this weekend that intermixes the chapters of the past 2 books. I was preparing for another reread and really wanted to do this one as close chronologically as possible. (The Plot thread graphs from http://encyclopaedia-wot.org/books/index.html came in very helpful, btw). Since I haven't read them in a while, I'm sure there will be some mistakes and references you can't catch from just the chapter threads. But I've searched the site and the web and couldn't find anything like it so far.

 

I have nothing but understanding for Team Jordan's need to build and suspend tension so the books can stand on their own. This is honestly just a personal desire of mine to read the threads in order as much as possible in preparation for AMOL. I'm posting it here so anyone else who has the same desire doesn't have to duplicate my work (not that it took that long).

 

Rand and Egwene's plots were pretty much in sync. It was fitting Mat and Perrin's that gave me the most trouble. I tried to keep from splitting up chapters and I think I did a decent job of it. There are only two such chapters: TGS-17 and TOM-P which I have noted below. I also tried to keep threads in contiguous chapters as much as possible instead of jumping around as the books did.

 

As I go through my reread based on this I will try to revise it as necessary. I'm a busy guy so it may take a while though, hence why I'm starting these about 6 months out. I welcome pointers from anyone else who is going through a reread as well though.

 

Enjoy!

TGS-Pro TGS-1 TGS-2 TGS-3 TGS-4 TGS-5 TGS-6 TGS-7 TGS-8 TGS-9 TGS-17 * don't read Perrin thread yet TGS-21 TGS-19 TGS-20 TGS-10 TGS-11 TGS-12 TGS-13 TGS-14 TGS-15 TGS-16 TGS-17 * Perrin thread only TOM-Pro * don't read Forsaken thread yet TOM-2 TOM-4 TOM-6 TOM-7 TOM-10 TGS-18 TGS-22 TGS-23 TGS-24 TGS-25 TGS-26 TGS-27 TGS-28 TGS-29 TGS-30 TGS-31 TGS-32 TGS-33 TGS-34 TGS-35 TGS-36 TGS-37 TOM-39 TOM-16 TOM-18 TOM-21 TOM-Pro * Forsaken thread only TOM-8 TOM-9 TOM-11 TOM-17 TOM-19 TOM-22 TOM-23 TOM-24 TOM-26 TOM-28 TGS-38 TGS-39 TGS-40 TGS-41 TGS-42 TGS-43 TGS-44 TGS-45 TGS-46 TGS-47 TGS-48 TGS-49 TGS-50 TOM-29 TOM-30 TOM-31 TGS-Epi TOM-1 TOM-3 TOM-5 TOM-12 TOM-13 TOM-14 TOM-15 TOM-20 TOM-25 TOM-27 TOM-33 TOM-34 TOM-35 TOM-36 TOM-37 TOM-38 TOM-40 TOM-41 TOM-42 TOM-43 TOM-32 TOM-44 TOM-45 TOM-46 TOM-47 TOM-48 TOM-49 TOM-50 TOM-51 TOM-52 TOM-53 TOM-54 TOM-55 TOM-56 TOM-57 TOM-Epi

[Terez]

See the reference library in my sig for two fan efforts.

[9kindsofidiot]

I took another stab at a timeline (PDF attached for readability). AMOL can be read more or less sequentially. The only story behind is the Black Tower and it doesn't throw things off too much. Thanks again to the chapter/POV information at http://encyclopaedia-wot.org.

amol.pdf