Kevin's Watch

Fist and Faith wrote: ↑Meaning it took you four hours to read instead of three?

LOL, meaning after I read it I was like "what the hell was going on there?"

Real in medias res stuff.

--A

Avatar wrote: ↑Wed Jun 21, 2023 2:49 pm Uh, that series never ends either. (Anyway, I preferred the Crystal Singer (And Lyon's Pride) series.

Anyway, Wheel of Time did end. 14 door-stoppers, but it ended. (And a few in the middle were terrible.)

I'm resigned to GoT never ending, and starting to worry about Rothfuss' Name of the Wind (and there's only 3 of those!) (Damn you @[Syl]. )

Feist's "Midekemia" books are also pretty never-ending, but they never got really bad. (And they do seem to have ended.) A couple dubious ones to be fair though.

The Brooks / Goodkind stuff though...well I never even start those. I did read the first three Shannara books, but very long ago and never again. "Cashgrab" sorta series get old really fast.

--A

Av - you're making a mistake in writing off the Terry Goodkind Sword of Truth series.

I'm on the second book now and despite my earlier comments on it being a 'series that never end' example, it's turning out to be very good reading. I decided to continue with the first book simply because I'd started it and it was okay; by the end I was pretty impressed and so borrowed the second from my library. The first third of this pretty voluminous tome has however switched up a gear and morphed into some of the best storytelling I've read in a long time.

I'm working on the principle that I'll keep going with the series until either I get bored with it or it just becomes dull and overworked, but at the moment the book I'm on is clearing a pretty high bar.