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Brace yourself if you plan to watch “The Wheel of Time.” It’s a bloodlust from which no one escapes. The fantasy epic, now available on Amazon Prime, features a hideous slaughter scene lasting a good long minute in the first part. All that blood has roiled audiences worldwide, who are divided as rarely before over this adaptation of Robert Jordan’s cycle of novels. The mammoth work is composed of some 4.4 million words, making it six times as thick as the Bible, and one of the most extensive books in literary history. Is anyone surprised that, at some point, the author died? A friend of the US…