/lit/ - Literature

Tourist here. A friend recommended this to me and I want to know what you guys think. Is it really as grueling of a read as people say on the web?

Almost through this. It's a confusing slog. I won't continue reading the series if all the other books are as confusing as this.

Please tell me it gets better, frens.

I got filtered hard from this series after finishing the first book. The setting was neat, but I just couldn't care about the majority of the characters. How do the later books compare to GotM?

Wtf, you retards told me this was good. I read the first 35 pages of this novel. No less than 12 named characters were introduced, and 3 of them died. 3 deaths. In the first 35 pages...

All he does is namedrop other countries and battles and historical figures that have never been mentioned before in an attempt to make it a huge and epic world but it just makes it fucking unreadable. This is the paragraph that I finally stopped reading after:

Hairlock bared his teeth. "The Tiste Andii are Mother Dark's first children. You've felt the tremors through the Warrens of Sorcery, Tayschrenn. So have I. Ask Dujek about the reports coming down from the North Campaign. Elder magic--Kurald Galain. The Lord of Moon's Spawn is the Master Archmage--you know his name as well as I do."

Why is this garbage recommended again?