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Originally Posted by isarl
If you ask the web, some people apparently rate The Player of Games as the most accessible entrance to the setting. (Others, of course, have other choices.)
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I've tried getting into that series twice now, once with
The Player of Games, and the novel that shan't be named lest we unleash a lecture. I got further in the unnamed novel, but I still couldn't finish it. There's a
lot of interesting ideas in them, but the story falls flat to me. My impression was of a string of really cool ideas/scenes strung together with a lot of boring stuff.
But definitely don't take that as a truth. I've never managed to read
The Lord of the Rings, because the first book is as dense a neutronium to me. Tried several times, don't think I ever got past the second chapter. I've been told numerous times that it gets better, but I couldn't make it to the better parts. It probably doesn't help that I'm mainly a scifi fan, not a fantasy one.
