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Originally Posted by Shadowplay
Mervyn Peake - is that the Gormenghast guy? I tried starting all that once, long ago, but didn't "get it" I think. Should probably give it another go sometime.
Robin Hobb - *LOVE* the Farseer books! Read the first 3 and i guess you'd say the last 3, centering on the Fool, but skipped the middle ones about the Liveships or whatever they were called as I wanted to keep going with the same characters.
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Of course, Peake is the guy who spends two or three pages describing a fly buzzing around a room. If you don't like detailed description, Gormenghast may not be your cup of tea.
Shadowplay, I recommend the Liveship stuff to you. The Fool is in it, although you don't even realize it until the Tawny Man trilogy (there are hints, but I didn't pick up on them until having it laid out for me). The third trilogy does make more sense with the information from the Liveship series.
Back on thread topic, I think the WoT will be a much better read when the whole thing is available. As each book has been released and more plot threads get started than get resolved, people have gotten frustrated because there hasn't been a sense of completion at the end of a book....and it's been a two year wait between them for the most part. Once you can view it as a single story it'll be a more pleasant/less frustrating read. I think. The latest book was phenomenal, in part because a lot of the loose threads started coming together. I'm very much looking forward to Brandon Sanderson's entry next month.
I'd say it all depends on whether a fourteen book story (plus a prequel) is something you want to invest your time in.