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I'm on book 4 of wheel of time right now.... To be honest I was hoping for more.

Not that it's bad but I think ASOIAF spoiled me with the "gritty" fantasy. WOT just can't hold my interest fr extended periods of time like my favorite books do. There are entirely too many POV characters that I neither hate nor like. I just don't give a shite what happens to the vast majority of the characters. I just want to see Rand, Perrin and Lan frick shite up and Robert Jordan seems like he was bound and fricking determined to keep me from seeing that.

Man, if you don't like it in book 4 you are really going to hate it when you get to books 7 and on. I consider WOT to be pretty much a standard middle of the road fantasy series. It's high points are very good, and Jordan wrote awesome fight scenes, but the series should have been about half the size it wound up being.

I know I've emailed you some book suggestions in the past, but I'd really suggest checking out Joe Abercrombie. With Martin being a slackass Joe is really the best thing going in gritty fantasy right now.

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Posted on 5/2/13 at 3:31 pm to auyushu

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Man, if you don't like it in book 4 you are really going to hate it when you get to books 7 and on. I consider WOT to be pretty much a standard middle of the road fantasy series. It's high points are very good, and Jordan wrote awesome fight scenes, but the series should have been about half the size it wound up being. I know I've emailed you some book suggestions in the past, but I'd really suggest checking out Joe Abercrombie. With Martin being a slackass Joe is really the best thing going in gritty fantasy right now.

It's not terrible but I thought it was supposed to be this great series and its really kind of pedestrian.

And I'll look Joe up. Where should I start with him?

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