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What's your opinion on this, /lit/? There is a gazillion books in this series and I really like the lore but the writing is shit and the pacing is awful. Should I read on? I read 5 books and kind of gave up but I'm thinking about trying again.

>> No.21422680

>>21422648
>What's your opinion on this, /lit/?
Why do you care about our opinion?

>> No.21422687

>>21422648
Try reading it and forming your own opinion.

>> No.21422691

>>21422648
Have you thought about checking goodreads.

>> No.21422711
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>>21422648
Obscenely bloated. I remember reading the first & second book, and thinking it was so fucking long and stupid. I think they were both 1000 pages long; really just made me wonder why I wasn't re-reading The Lord of the Rings again.

>> No.21422723

>>21422648
If all you care about strangers opinions, just go to goodreads retard.

>> No.21422739

>>21422648
>Should I read on?
Hold up, are you honest to god asking us? You're the one reading the book, fucking decide on your own.

>> No.21422769

>>21422739
He read five books and is still undecided, I think OP doesn’t read.

>> No.21422782

>>21422769
Oh fuck, that's even worse.

>> No.21422858

>>21422648
A child knows when to stop reading a book. Just wanted to let you know.

>> No.21423448

>>21422648
Yes

>> No.21423464

Cool setting, generic characters.

>> No.21424207

>>21422648
Have you read Bakker yet?

>> No.21424371

>>21422648
Book 7 and 8 were really good. 9 dragged on forever but had a cool ending, 9 and 10 are supposed to be the same story, so I thought 10 would pay off the slog of 9 with stuff happening, but instead it was even more slow. I think the feminism also became more obnoxious/in your face particularly by book 10 too. I stopped reading it around page 200 as a result of nothing happening and the men all being crybabies and the women all being le epic badasses. I don't read fantasy anymore, it's a huge waste of time. Just read actual history and myth.

>> No.21426046

Pretty sure Erikson has a smoking and fat fetish.

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>>21426046
Based smoking hat fetishist

>> No.21426267

>>21422648
Is this series like Wheel of Time where every book is a thousand pages long for no real reason?

>> No.21426276

>>21422711
Doesn't hold a candle to WOT

>> No.21426286

>>21422691
>>21422687
>>21422680
How dare he post about a book on a literature board!

>> No.21427021

>>21426286
Those posts give valid advice.

>> No.21427237

>>21422648

Read on, but skip through the useless parts. Every time a character went on a long, pointless tangent that had no relevance to the story I'd skip it.

Makes me laugh that Erikson had no idea why people weren't reading the Kharkanas Trilogy. It took the "every character is a philosopher who goes on long pointless rambles" to the extreme.