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Yarbicus wrote:Books 1-3 make an excellent trilogy. I am quite happy with the entire story line ending there. I pretend that books 4 and 5 don't exist.
Murdoch wrote:I really liked the first three books of the Wheel of Time, because shit actually HAPPENED in those books. But after that, shit just draaaaaaaaaagggggggggeeeeed. It's like Jordan realized he had a hit on his hands, and he would sell tons of copies of his books, so he deliberately slowed the pace down to the point where he could release umpteen more novels. I can't remember how many books I read (8? 9?) before I just said "fuck this noise, I don't give a shit any more". Eventually Jordan drug it out to the point where he died before he could finish it, and someone else had to do it for him. See, that's what I'm scared of with the Martin books, because the dude is SO obviously a whore about it. He had initially planned on 3 books, now he says there will be 7. Unless, of course, he changes his mind and decides to write more. The difference being that he's waiting 5-6 years between books, isn't getting any younger, and has said that he will not allow anyone to finish the series for him. Helluva guy.
Marc G wrote:Murdoch wrote:I, uh...haven't read the books, nor have I watched the series. I remember starting Game of Thrones, getting about halfway through it, then just putting it down and forgetting about it.
My gf has read the first four and says that he suffers from what I call "Robert Jordan syndrome", insofar as he can write huge passages of prose without saying much of anything whatsoever. I stopped reading Jordan's books after I had finished some 900 plus page paperweight, and realized that absolutely nothing had happened.
Martin can be like that... but I think what this series really suffers from is the way it's broken in to POV chapters, so when you have to read through a chapter of a character(s) you really could give two shits about it becomes really tedious....
nightflameauto wrote:Murdoch wrote:I really liked the first three books of the Wheel of Time, because shit actually HAPPENED in those books. But after that, shit just draaaaaaaaaagggggggggeeeeed. It's like Jordan realized he had a hit on his hands, and he would sell tons of copies of his books, so he deliberately slowed the pace down to the point where he could release umpteen more novels. I can't remember how many books I read (8? 9?) before I just said "fuck this noise, I don't give a shit any more". Eventually Jordan drug it out to the point where he died before he could finish it, and someone else had to do it for him. See, that's what I'm scared of with the Martin books, because the dude is SO obviously a whore about it. He had initially planned on 3 books, now he says there will be 7. Unless, of course, he changes his mind and decides to write more. The difference being that he's waiting 5-6 years between books, isn't getting any younger, and has said that he will not allow anyone to finish the series for him. Helluva guy.
But hey, at least he clearly eats healthy, exercises, and takes care of himself so he won't die prematurely.
I don't remember where I gave up on Wheel of Time. I do know I had a stack of several more books to go sitting on my shelf when I finally threw in the towel.
Repner wrote:From what I hear, if you can make it past book 10, it really starts to pick up again. Crossroads Of Twilight seems the have to worst reviews of the series.
nightflameauto wrote:Repner wrote:From what I hear, if you can make it past book 10, it really starts to pick up again. Crossroads Of Twilight seems the have to worst reviews of the series.
Making it past book ten to get to the goods doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement. Especially since so many of the books top seven hundred pages.
atrox wrote:No, I thought the episode was fine. Just not that great of a finale episode. Was hoping for Lady Stoneheart appearance.
Marc G wrote:atrox wrote:No, I thought the episode was fine. Just not that great of a finale episode. Was hoping for Lady Stoneheart appearance.
I haven't seen it yet but I figured Lady Stoneheart would have made a quick drop in to say hello and make everyone who didn't read the books do a big WTF.... based on my friends Facebook updates most seem disappointed... I guess 99% of them were expecting Joffery to die, guess they will have to wait till next season...
atrox wrote:No, I thought the episode was fine. Just not that great of a finale episode. Was hoping for Lady Stoneheart appearance.
