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Originally Posted by Manabi
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.  |
That unnamed book has some interesting ideas that were very poorly executed.