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[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yeah... I picked up the first one as an airport novel. I bought some of the rest because I wanted to know the end, but there were way too many pages with nothing happening plotwise. I think I got book 5 6 and 7 for free years after I gave up on 4, but I never read them.

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[–] downvotesattractor 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The audiobooks narrated by Michael Kramer and Kate Reading are fantastic! I'm now at AMOL and I'm pretty sue I would not have been able to get this far without the audiobooks.

I loved the series in the Brandon Sanderson books. He corrected some pacing issues the series was beginning to face, closed down so many plot lines that I didn't even remember and stayed true to the characters.

This series is really good!

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[–] NedTaggart 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I read The Eye of the World, but I couldn't progress to the next one. To me, it felt like a slog to get to the last page. Now, don't get me wrong, I WANTED to like it, I just never connected to it, never felt invested in it. Its been a few years and I can't put my finger on it, but it seems to me that the balance was weighted more towards slow reveals and I spent a lot of time wondering what was going on. I do not need things handed to me on a platter and I love epic arc's and understand that important reveals should unfold as the story progresses, but that has to be balanced with exposition. I remember more than a few occasions, thinking "Wait, what?" and having to flip back to try and figure out if I had missed anything.

I will probably give it another tumble and see if i think it is any better, it has been on my mind to read it again. I am in the middle of Sanderson''s Stormlight Archive now, and have Mistborn queued up. Sanderson was actually recommended to me in a Wheel Of Time Thread earlier in the year.

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[–] IamSand 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

One annoyance I had with the books was the constipated relationship between males and females.

Males are always uncultured dolts and the females always scoff and scowl. The same thing goes on and on and on and on... Half of some books if full with this shit.

How on earth did Rand and Egwayne could have ever been friends if that was all they did?

Kinda gives the impression that the writer didn't know much about interacting with women.

Also this is the book that made me dislike "The Chosen One" type of stories where the protagonist finds himself center of the universe just because.

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[–] 7even6ix2wo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Feel the similarly about Harry Potter. I really liked the first four books but the final three were not as good.