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I'm struggling with the Martin "A Song of Fire and Ice" series mentioned above me. It seems like there are moments of brilliance speckled into the books but for the most part it just seems like fantasy reader-torture porn. No, I don't mean like Terry Goodkind. I mean he basically tortures the reader. It's like he set out beforehand and wrote an amazing back story for the material then decided to treat every single character like poo poo and see how long the reader will tolerate it. I get why people like it because there are spots where you forget the dreariness and dread of "Who will get raped, lose an arm or be savagely murdered for no reason?". To me those spots are too few and far between. I stopped on the second or third book I think, I don't know if I'll go back since I hear it just gets worse in terms of what I dislike about it.
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unleash the unicorn posted:The Sword of Truth by Terry Goodkind I've posted this one every time these threads come up but I really can't reinforce enough just how truly awful an experience that book is. I hear the series just continues to get worse and worse too(Evil Chicken, torture/rape, etc). A friend of mine insisted that I check it out as supposedly it was the first original fantasy series in years. Excluding for a moment the torture porn and other disgusting fetishes of the author, the actual characters and story are boring and formulaic at best. The first 50 pages are the only good part of the book and everyone else should stop right there.
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May 13, 2008 18:30
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The 9th Axiom posted:Interesting you say this! I have similar feelings about book as well as the book from which you derive your name. I could NOT finish it... OMG walk through a desert more and make less sense plz. I never post to defend The Dark Tower because the truth is that there are many problems with the series and I can see how people would be turned off by it. That being said, I think the first 4 books are excellent and well worth a read. There are some very well narrated audiobooks of the series as well, you might wanna check those out instead. I found it very hard to get through Wizards and Glass but the audiobook made it much easier and more enjoyable. I think most people go into it expecting the usual King stuff but its really like a bizarro fantasy world with modern time elements mixed in. Also keep in mind King was on every drug known to man when he started it 
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May 15, 2008 13:38
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Calenth posted:My sister in law has an edition of one of Terry Goodkind's books with a misprint of "Copyright Robert Jordan" on the copyright page. I'm convinced someone at Tor did it deliberately. It starts out tame enough but there are some hints as to what is coming even early on in the book. I should've picked up on it sooner than I did is all I can say without going into spoilers but honestly, I would be doing people a favor by spoiling the book so they could avoid it. People about LOTR posted:stuff
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May 16, 2008 18:16
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Dean Koontz has a very on again off again writing style for me. Some of his books flow well and others delve too deep in the mystical dog nonsense. Normally I use his stuff as airplane fodder but I could not even get 20 pages through Breathless which wastes not even 1 page before introducing the magical canines. I just can't even make myself take it seriously as guilty pleasure when he's been reusing the same magical dog character for 20 years.
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