[Dr Trouble]

Hetan;108547 said:

...GRRM... I tried, I really tried to like these.... but they just don't interest me....

I agree. They didn't disapoint as much as they just didn't really interest me. I enjoyed them for the most part, but certainly not something I will re-read.

[Morgoth]

hm, I must be one of the few who loved TTT.. The warrior prophet was average, but still better than most in my opinion, and tDtCB was excellent as well.. *shrugs*

I never liked Donaldson though.. And yeah, the nights dawn trilogy was just plain anoying. Never could force myself to pick up book three

[Valgard]

Donaldson also just hated him he drove me up the wall (I read the first two books but couldn't bring myself to read ny more of it).

Etched city as well it wasn't bad but was nowhere near as good as the person that recommended it to me said.

I also Loved TTT and the warrior prophet I really love all Bakkers work I think that it is brilliant.

[Abyss]

I read Eddings's BELGARIAD and MALLOREAN when i was 13. Loved it then. I reread it when i was about 17 and stopped pdq. So i wasn't dissappointed the first time, but it became pretty clear i had outgrown Eddings. About a year ago i grabbed ALTHALUS for a flight. Ooo... mistake.

Van Lustbader's RING OF # DRAGONS Who Do Not Appear In This Book was an utter and total disappointment. I liked his Ninja and similar books, but this, this was pure crap. The first book in years I could not force myself to finish. And i finished Althalus.

The first and second COVENANT series were enjoyable, but i admit to skipping over all the large chunks of Tommy the leper whining about his life.

I recently started McCullen's SOULS IN THE GREAT MACHINE and stoped about 20 pages in to read LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA instead.

I would also note that Goodkind makes my eyes bleed.

- Abyss, irredeemable.

[Enaglio]

The Warrior Prophet because I had convinced myself that something good would finally come of that series. Shame on me.

A Feast for Crows- for being as long as it was, everything that happened in it could have been told in the prologe of a better book.

[stone monkey]

@ Longhorn - It took you 'til A Crown of Swords? I'd kinda spotted that something was rotten in the state of Denmark when I read Lord of Chaos

Yesterday I read Transcendence by Stephen Baxter (I was off work, so I had the time) it was something of a disappointment, after the cosmic fireworks of Exultant I was expecting a bit more from it, the so-alled dark secrets turned out to be somewhat banal; in both plot strands.

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Fool;110301 said:

Runes of the Earth. That woman (forgot the name) is just annoying.

That would be Linden Avery.

[Tsundoku]

I thought Lindon Avery was a character in the 2nd Covenant trilogy ... ?

I agree with many already listed. Althalus was probably the worst by far though.

Although Wizards First Rule comes a close second, not to spread the Tary bashing to a new thread.

Cheers,

La Sombra, scarred in places he can't spell

[Raymond Luxury Yacht]

Sombra;110699 said:

I thought Lindon Avery was a character in the 2nd Covenant trilogy ... ?

[ModEdit]On the remote chance that people do not know the ending already.. Better to be on the safe side

Spoiler

She was. The Third Chronicles pick up with her about 10 years after the end of the Second. It makes sense, she was the main character in the second chronicles (other than Thomas Covenant, of course) and since he dies at the end of the second, it only makes sense to pick up with her in the third.

[McLovin]

stone monkey;110539 said:

@ Longhorn - It took you 'til A Crown of Swords? I'd kinda spotted that something was rotten in the state of Denmark when I read Lord of Chaos

What can I say? I liked Lord of Chaos.

[Werthead]

longhorn;110784 said:

What can I say? I liked Lord of Chaos.

So did I. My second-favourite of the series.

I even liked A Crown of Swords, as more actually happened in it than in LoC:

Spoiler

Especially the Seanchan blitzkrieg. I think Jordan had just left it long enough for people to start forgetting they were still around before bringing them back to the fore.

Path of Daggers is where I lost the faith.

[fan_83]

aye.. pod is full of crap..

wizards first rule is pretty ok.. it doesn;t have the usual tg crap in it.. but a more stereotypical fantast with lots of promise...

had he only stopped with wizards first rule, i would think we wouldn;t be bashing it all

[Illuyankas]

Is it just me, or could Jordan have removed all traces of the Sea Folk from the series entirely, and lost nothing of importance except one amusing scene with Mat? Seriously, what do they do?

[McLovin]

The Sea Folk, sure. And the Seanchan. And the Aiel. And the Children of Light. And half of whatever's left after that.

[Illuyankas]

Maybe it's because they haven't had any interesting plotlines, like the others you've mentioned, but they only seem to interact with two characters, and have some of the more boring chapters. Although that might be Elayne and Nynave's fault.

[Blind]

It's not only that they have no interesting plotline; the Sea Folk Windfinders are some of the most annoying characters in the series. Their chapters made PoD painful to read.

[Werthead]

The Sea Folk do date have:

Provided lots more channellers for the rebel Aes Sedai. Erm, nice.

An excuse for tons more females to be wandering around, folding their arms under their breasts and smoothing their dresses. They also provide gratuitous nudity and very heavily implied female bisexuality. W00t!

Tons of them died in a mass-rebellion in Ebou Dar between Winter's Heart and Crossroads of Twilight engineered by Mat. There was a huge battle, dozens of ships on all sides were destroyed but a few Sea Folk heroically managed to escape to safety in Illian. Robert Jordan decided it would be a capital idea, rather than to show us this, instead to have Mat look at some wreckage and think, "Woah!" In all fairness, this allowed Jordan more time in CoT to address his incredibly important, high-paced storyline :confused:

The Seanchan have played a reasonably important role in the storyline, just one that is addressed and plays out very haphazardly. The battles involving the Seanchan in Knife of Dreams were pretty nifty though ('nifty' meaning, 'pretty good', not 'Siege of Capustan' or 'Battle of the Blackwater'-beating).

[Tsundoku]

WoT ... so good until ACoS. PoD should have been retitled "The Blathering of Unimportant Generic Female Extras". Seriously, lose most of the Sea Folk, Wise Women, Aes Sedai etc stuff and the last 5 books could have been condensed into 1, and lost nothing for it.

Not that I'm a mysoginist, mind. RJ only had one decent female character, and that was Lanfear. So deliciously psychotic-obsessive, but I guess in a way that's another bad stereotype as well, the "Bunny Boiler".

Not that the men are much better, except for Matt, and even then he wimps out far too often. Grrrrrrr!

I must say on the other hand, WH and KoD were much better. Still, after 5 billion unresolved threads, it's hard to imagine how he could wrap it all up in one last book. Unless that book is about 3,000 pages. With no annoying women.

Cheers,

La Sombra, bah humbug