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Old 08-16-2024, 02:18 PM   #8502
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However the Fantasy books I most regret continuing with were The Wheel of Time (bought all but IMO go off after maybe #5 and I never finished the series) and the Third Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (I have all and stopped part way through 2nd).
Ah, yes, The Waste of Time. Derivative of both The Lord of the Rings and Dune. Except that after 2000 pages of almost nothing happening across books 3 and 4 (or was it 4 and 5? 2 and 3? I forgor) we get the "there's no way he could have survived that!" ending. Not that I have anything against this kind of ending. It's very pulp adventure and I like pulp adventure. But The Waste of Time isn't trying to be pulp adventure. It's pretending to be epic fantasy. Except that epic fantasy has, well, epic endings and not, "there's no way they could have survived that!"
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