what book are you on? i just started book 10. truth be told i like the books a lot and they are absolutely epics with incredible world building especially given how long ago the first was written. having said all that... yah, there's infinitely better stuff written in the past decade
I'm halfway through book two. I think part of the problem is I am listening to them immediately consecutively after each other. I am at the point where if Rand and Egwene have another stupid fight I am going to scream.
World building is solid af though it's why I'm still listening.
If men and women constantly arguing is too grating for you I've got some bad news about the other 12 books. I don't think it starts to get particularly good until like book 3 and then around 7 or 8 it's nothing but people sitting in rooms arguing for an entire book.
Not men and women, Rand and Egwene specifically. They have fought and made up and then fought about the exact same thing again four times now. Perhaps it's 'realistic' to teenagers, but it does not make for compelling reading material.
I don't know if I could ever read them again. I was a fairly voracious reader when I was a teenager and there's a couple entries in the series that really drag.
for recent "epics" i liked mistborn quite a bit. it's fairly YA but the themes were good
the themes in brent weeks lightbringer were god awful but the dude writes like an absolute poet and, unfortunately, i found the world to be super interesting.
american gods is cool. the witcher books are fun.
gentleman bastards book 1 is phenomenal. NICE BIRD, ASSHOLE. book 2 is okay and book 3 is meh.
next on my list once i finish WOT (@ book 10 rn) is the blacktongue thief. i'm pret stoked.
what book are you on? i just started book 10. truth be told i like the books a lot and they are absolutely epics with incredible world building especially given how long ago the first was written. having said all that... yah, there's infinitely better stuff written in the past decade
I'm halfway through book two. I think part of the problem is I am listening to them immediately consecutively after each other. I am at the point where if Rand and Egwene have another stupid fight I am going to scream.
World building is solid af though it's why I'm still listening.
If men and women constantly arguing is too grating for you I've got some bad news about the other 12 books. I don't think it starts to get particularly good until like book 3 and then around 7 or 8 it's nothing but people sitting in rooms arguing for an entire book.
Not men and women, Rand and Egwene specifically. They have fought and made up and then fought about the exact same thing again four times now. Perhaps it's 'realistic' to teenagers, but it does not make for compelling reading material.
Jordan beats the "men and women just don't understand each other" horse into the dirt, with a lot of braid tugging and men being stubborn / stoic.
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I don't know if I could ever read them again. I was a fairly voracious reader when I was a teenager and there's a couple entries in the series that really drag.
try to make it to the end of book 3 if you can. shit was awesome
Recs for new shit?
for recent "epics" i liked mistborn quite a bit. it's fairly YA but the themes were good
the themes in brent weeks lightbringer were god awful but the dude writes like an absolute poet and, unfortunately, i found the world to be super interesting.
american gods is cool. the witcher books are fun.
gentleman bastards book 1 is phenomenal. NICE BIRD, ASSHOLE. book 2 is okay and book 3 is meh.
next on my list once i finish WOT (@ book 10 rn) is the blacktongue thief. i'm pret stoked.