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Originally Posted by jgaiser
ARRGH!!!! I own the first book and I've tried to read it a couple of times. The writing is tremendous, but you get dumped into the middle of a story with the first book. *Everybody* says to start with the second book and yet I'd really like to start at the beginning. It's a lot to spend, but I'm really tempted..  |
"Starting in the middle of the story" ("in medias res" - "in the middle of things" - as the classical authors described it) is the traditional thing to do with epics. Erikson is emulating all the great historical epics in doing so.