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I'm finally giving it a go. What am I in for

>> No.12247019

>>12247013
>What am I in for

uhh, a book? Looks like a knight or something on the cover. probably set in medieval times.

>> No.12247074

Regret. Dont do it

>> No.12247104

Complete and utter boredom. Except to have to slog through 300 pages before the first even remotely interesting thing happens (and it's boring anyway but compared to the rest of the book, slightly less so) Then repeat that for like 10 more books. Seriously, if you want good fantasy just read Tolkien

>> No.12247148

>>12247104
>complains about slogging
>Recommends writer that wastes entire chapters with singing, chilling in the house of some cuck who doesnt even add to the story and his thot wife, and QQs about a culture that has been dead for a thousand years

Peak tardation

>> No.12247187

>>12247148
>imply dimply that a ten book 'epic' with a thousand pages a piece isn't somehow far, far worse.

>> No.12247236

>>12247013
mediocrity

>> No.12247644

>>12247013
You are in for countless braids being tucked, ears boxed, and stone faces.

>> No.12247695

>>12247104
Or the better pulps - Leiber, Zelzany

>> No.12247846

>>12247013
As someone who started with the first book in elementary school and who loves it immensely, it's hard for me to recommend reading beyond the first book. The first book is, for most people, the best book in the series, as it's a traditional fantasy story that has a roundabout start and finish. Book two begins to expand the viewpoints and the scope of the plot, and that expansion continues as the books go on. Soon enough, you're lucky if the main character gets two or three chapters in one of the books, with the majority of the story being delivered through alternate viewpoints.

While the series doesn't quite get bogged down until the middle and end, there is never a proper stopping point like there is after the first book. If you are a big fan of world building and droves of character viewpoints, you might be one of the people who adores it. If either of those things sounds iffy, I'd stop after the first book.

>> No.12247989

>>12247013
If you stop after that book, a reasonable unspectacular fantasy novel that will make you want to get back to Gene Wolfe. If you read all FIFTEEN of the fucking Wheel of Time, an endless descent into repetitive boredom that may force your brain to delude you into thinking you love it just to survive.

>> No.12248532

if you dont feel like reading and you have a job that lets you listen to music/long commute home, id recommend the audiobooks, it goes by faster and the narrators arent too bad.

i enjoy them quite a bit though it does tend to drag on after about the 6th or 7th book. thats generally how these types of series go though. give it a shot and if you feel like, after you're done with the first one, that you want to keep going, then keep going. if you cant stand it then dont read any more, pretty simple.

>> No.12248534

>>12247104
>character asks a question
>two huge pages about what the goddamned mountains look like
>other character answers
>I have to flip back to the question to remember what it was
This was the first dialogue in the first book. Never dropped a fantasy series harder; that shit's just terrible.

>> No.12249075

>>12248534
You realize that we all have access to the book and can tell you're lying, right? That doesn't happen in the prelude, the prologue, or the first two chapters, so I doubt it happens at all, because I've never had to do that in any fantasy book.

>> No.12249110

>>12249075
Page and a half then. The description was way too fucking long and interrupted a two line dialogue.

>> No.12249112

>>12247013
I enjoyed the entire series except Sanderson's garbage at the end, but I was a teenager when I read most of it and it was among my first fantasy series. May not appeal so much as an adult.

>> No.12249138

>>12249110
There is no conversation that is interrupted by more than one or two short paragraphs. You're thinking of a later chapter or you're exaggerating it in your mind.

>> No.12249435

>>12247013
don't

>> No.12249484

With so much (actually finished) to chose from, I don't understand why people keep reading the same shitty fantasy books.

>> No.12249887

>>12249138
That dialogue is getting interrupted by background details longer than a short sentence is a huge red flag. If you took a second to breathe in between sucking Jordan's cock you'd understand this.

>> No.12251287

>>12249887
You don't read fantasy much, do you?

>> No.12251310

>>12247013
I really wanted to get into this series but other anons aren't joking, it's descriptive, sometimes boring.
There are special moments though where it felt like the book was picking up and it was great.
I have a friend who's read them all and re-reads them occasionally.

>> No.12251565

>>12247104
Get the 6th book

Read the last chapter

There you go, only good part in this whole snoozefest.

>> No.12251867

>>12251565
>not recommending the full novel-sized 80k word chapter that is tarmon gaidon
it's the best part of the whole series