[dickloraine]

I would say it is only worth it, if you actualy enjoy the books. I for example don't like them anymore. I've read some of them as a teenager and even later on. They are in my opinion okay to read for fun once in a while, but they lack on so many things, that I wouldn't consider them anymore. There are so many good fantasy books out there, that have better characters, more interesting worlds, are better written, have better plots or all of this, that I have no time for them anymore.

And you are right by saying it is nearly impossible to follow all of them. I don't have exactly your problem, but most fantasy is in a series format. And each books in this series are doorstoppers. And between each book of a series lies a year minimum. I needed ten years to complete the malazan book of the fallen. Game of thrones is still going. Wheel of times more than a dekade. The dresden files are at book 15. Joe Abercrombie writes on and on. The gentleman bastards are planing the next sting. More malazan books are coming. The stormlight archivies look like they will go on for a decade and I could make this list longer and longer still. To follow all this series and remembering what was going on is getting more difficult the more new series I begin... And since there are long gaps between the publications, I begin many new series. In my more younger and more vulnerable years, I would have finished every series I begun. But now I drop a series I do not like anymore (none of the above of course), because there are so many good books out there. It is realy impressive, how big the fantasy market has become. Where it was not that easy to find the next book to read 15 years ago (at least in germany and maybe another factor is that I now read english novels too) I do not have this problem anymore.

P. S. There is one weis and Hickman series that I enjoyed, which is completed and never expanded to. Don't know the exact name anymor, but something like dragon elves or lost kingdoms.