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Originally Posted by astra
I would also advise you to stay away from Wizard's First Rule by Goodkind. There is a very stronmg opinion that it is the worst fantasy series ever.
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I've read it and I was quite taken with it through the first 3 books. And that's not to say that the rest of the books weren't enjoyable, it's just the first 3 or 4 were really excellent. It's like Jordan's Wheel of Time. There are as many people who love it as hate it. There don't seem to be many middle of the road folks. And the people that hate both series, seem to hate them for the same reasons the people that love it - love it. Too long, too slow (too much char devel), the author's paint word pictures in too great a depth. "Boring" doesn't work because we all have different tastes - there are so many rooms in our reader's houses
I personally, love long, slow, in depth books with subtle char development - where the whole series is really one book and the author is brilliant at painting word pictures. When I find something I "really" like to read, I hate for it end. But I know there are plenty of folks that like shorter, faster resolve books.
Anytime a book inspires 500+ different serious appreciation pages and video games, MUDs, annual calendar's, art books and even an MMO, there's something going on
Google Robert Jordan Wheel of Time - sometime and take a look.
I think one true test of a book's/author's work is that he/she inspires such depth of feeling in readers and Jordan and to a slightly lesser degree Goodkind, have that in spades.
I suspect that Dumas and Sabatini and Wodehouse and Trollope and Verne all had much the same reactions to their books in their day. Depth of feeling. Haters and lovers and not so much indifference.