(June 20, 2014 at 8:30 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: It greatly saddens me that Brandon Sanderson was selected to complete that series. Those are books I will never read because I cannot get through that crap to save my life. I've tried twice. The first time I got half-way through the fourth book and the second time I managed to muscle through 'til about the halfway point of the sixth. I know many people read and enjoy them. Perhaps it's just me (thought I'm a huge fantasy fan) or perhaps I see over the top derivation where others don't.
The seventh through tenth books are rather poor (especially the tenth). They're huge and meandering and in those 4,000 pages or so, there is disturbingly little plot advancement or character development. I have not actually read anything of Sanderson outside of the last three WoT books, but I thought he was a markedly superior writer than Jordan.
As far as how derivative the story was, eh. It didn't bother me nearly as much as the enormous chunks of nothing happening. I was entertained enough through the first few that I was willing to see it through to the end.
Has anyone here ever read any Ray Feist? He was my first adult fantasy love (though I kind of fell out of love with the Riftwar books after the Serpentwar Saga).
