re: Crackpot ASOIAF Theories SPOILERS

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You need to read some Joe Abercrombie, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch, or Steven Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen after you finish WOT.

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I definitely need some good fantasy recommendations. I read LOTR when I was young but I never really got into fantasy until I started reading ASOIAF and now I'm hooked. The problem I'm running into though is that the genre is so hit and miss. When a book or series is good its fricking great but when it's bad it's just painful. There is very little middle ground.

Shoot me an email at my username @ gmail with some good recommendations if you don't mind.

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That being said, WOT is definitely a solid series, though the middle kinda sucks. I found book 1 solid but pretty formulaic, books 2-6 pretty awesome, book 7 was solid but the plot started to slow down, book 8 is meh, books 9 and 10 are horrible, book 11 gets back on track a bit, then Jordan dies. First book (12) by Sanderson was excellent and on par with books 2-6, book 13 was good, and the final book was a decent conclusion.

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The first book was great but it was a straight rip off of Tolkien. I mean the whole book pretty much held LOTR's hand all the way through and that annoyed me. I enjoyed the hell out of it but I couldn't help but mentally point out and laugh about every extremely obvious ripoff. I mean has anyone ever made a character more similar to Aragorn than Lan?

The second book was just flat out amazing. Loved every single minute of it.

I'm about a quarter of the way through book 3 and I can't get near as into it. I want to see rand, Perrin, moraine and Lan. I couldn't give two shits about what egwene is doing nor what the Aes Sedai are doing.