Not because it was massive tomes that spanned 40 million novels, but because after book 5 or so less and less actually happened in each book.
Yeah, I actually stopped WoT most of the way through and ignored the subsequent published books. I think a lot of it is things happen to the characters and the characters may not talk about it, but they do not forget and it drives their choices and their actions well after the original event.
(Both of his hands were broken.)Įach scene stands on its own, but together they form this incredible character arc. They both end up in the water, laughing at it, and he realizes the other time someone went overboard, he couldn’t have saved them even if he had caught them, and comes to terms with it.īy itself, it’s a beautiful scene, with just enough information to know where he is coming from, but there is also the story where the original incident actually happened, and he watched someone he loved fall to the death because in his mind, he could not catch them. Miles flips over into full ‘never again’ mode, and tries to catch her before she goes over. Miles is dating a lady, and they’re goofing around, and she end up tripping off the foot bridge into the koi pond. My favorite example is the scene with the koi pond. You don’t need to read all of them to enjoy any of them, but there are more there, and they do add to eachother. You can pretty much pick up any of them and have a good novel. I’ve really loved how Bujold handled it in the Vorkosigan novels. I’ve really come to prefer more self-contained books in a series, where even if there are multi-book arcs, they’re maybe three to five reasonable length novels. I think it is more a problem that so many fantasy series have turned into the mega-epics that require reading all 452 books to reach the end of.Įven if they are fantastic and the author has great work ethic, things happen and they don’t get done, or worse, write them selves into corners where they can’t come to a satisfactory conclusion at all (see Game of Thrones and Mass Effect). Only picked it up earlier this year after finding out that it had been finished by another author, and that the author had done a very good job of it, via the whole discussion of the Brian Sanderson kickstarter. I actually remember hearing about it, finding out the author had passed before finishing it, and didn’t even start on the first book. The author was releasing them at a good clip, but the story was so huge that he didn’t make it to the end. I so find myself thinking of series like The Wheel of Time books.
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