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Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley
Ooh, the GRRM, Robert Jordan thing made me think... Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series. I *loved* Wizard's First Rule. Then each succeeding book just turned me off more and more until I didn't want anymore.
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When i read Wizards First Rule, it was a life-changing experience. I read it in print, then my mom got the audio (on tapes, unabridged! 30 tapes ...) and i listened to it again maybe 3 months later. Stone of tears was also excellent. maybe not a "new" as WFR was. Blood of the fold went kind of weird about 1/2 way through - the bad guy's odd collection was frankly quite disturbing.
still, i forced myself to endure the torture that was the 4th book. the last 100 pages, i kept asking "what?" "why?" out loud while reading. i think i suffered thought 2 or 3 more. the final straw was the endless diatribe on the merits of communism vs. capitalism, punctuated by a horribly thin, ragged story about carving a statue?
WTF?
Aspirin's actual Myth books are some of my favorites. the latter collaboration books are very hit - or - miss. usually miss. the last couple took a lot longer to get through.
I have not read the last half of the Xanth books yet, and from what i am hearing here, they might be sliding down the list quick.
I was not really disappointed by the last harris Sookie book - but i wondered when i was done, "what was the point?" The beginning of the book, there was a definite place you expected the book to go, but it never got there. I felt that there was a distraction somewhere in her personal life, and it affected her writing.
I noticed with the Percy Jackson books, that i flew through the first 3. the 4th one kind of dragged a little. I totally struggled to finish the 5th one. like i kept picking up other books, and then going back to it. and once it was over, it was good that it was over. there was closure, and i really did not long for more. I just wish it could have been 100 pages shorter.
Currently, i am re-reading the Sookie books from the first - and i am flying through them this time, and picking up a lot more than i did the first time around. and, we just re-watched the first 3 seasons of the show to prepare for the new season, and i am starting to understand a lot of the changes that Alan Ball made to make the show last. Some blatant, some very very subtle. things that seemed horrible the first time around, are starting to make sense.
ok, enough with the ranting. lunchtime, time to go read
