/lit/ - Literature

>With his coming are the dread fires born again.
>The hills burn, and the land turns sere.
>The tides of men run out, and the hours dwindle.
>The wall is pierced, and the veil of parting raised.
>Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth.
>There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.

Why are there not modern novels like wheel of time? Epic fantasies that have most of the book be boring over detailed stories that spend more time expanding the world than showing this cool chad mc solving everything.