The Wheel of Time (tv series)

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Understand that I've read tons of fantasy works and after a point it seems like I'm reading the same story over and over again.  I agree that most authors derive something from others, but for some reason the fantasy genre seems to be the most cut and paste, maybe with the exception of mystery, which I don't read much.  I've also read tons of SF and it, too is largely derivative, but for some reason it still offers a much wider realm of variation.  At times it has appeared that writing fantasy has been more of a willingness to participate in a specific club where writing SF is more like charting new territory.  I can easily find two SF authors that have near zero similarity in their work, but doing that with fantasy is pretty difficult.  One author whom I feel did chart new fantasy territory was Michael Moorecock.

*Note:  This opinion, whether it's mine or someone else's doesn't necessarily make it elitist.  Why use such a pejorative adjective?

Lol. Yeah, I'm the sensitive one.

I'm passionate about the stuff I like and I've heard the Tolkien dick sucking before.

My opinion has nothing to do with Tolkien dick sucking and it certainly isn't elitist.  Everyone has preferences and I merely shared mine with you and you reacted as if it was a personal insult, which is bizarre because you don't have any personal investment in other author's work, or at least there's no reason for you to.  If anything authors like Jordan (well, he's dead) and Brooks should take it personally since its their work I'm comparing to Tolkien's.  If you like to read every single Xanth book and loved them all, that's fine by me but I see no reason not to speak frankly about how I feel about his work.  But I imagine that even those authors would acknowledge the vast contribution Tolkien made to literature and wouldn't be nearly as offended as you are.  So just chill a bit and accept that not everyone shares your opinion.  I don't much care if you were to claim that Game of Thrones was the greatest fantasy series ever; that's your opinion and I can agree with it or laugh at you if I like.  And if fact there are those who claim that such and such art or music or whatever is the greatest and I don't always agree with them, but it sure isn't because I think they are "elitist"; whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.  That really just seems to be some sort of emotional reaction to other's that has more to do with you.

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@Ten BTW, I was going to send you this in a PM, but you appear to have it disabled.

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And in case you still don't fully comprehend. If you absolutely insisted that this WOT was the greatest, I might just give it a try. I read a book recommended by my hair dresser. Didn't care for it but I did give it a go. It's not like I have some sort of absolute rule or anything. Thing is, I already have about a hundred books queued up and fitting in a new one just makes others that I'm dying to read get that much farther away.