Kantor said:
You haven't read nearly long enough for it to start getting good. Most of the early books is Rand, Mat and Perrin whining and moaning about their power and how they can't handle it. They get over that by about halfway through the series. |
If I've read 1500 pages into a series and it hasn't "started getting good" then there's something wrong with the series, in my honest opinion. If an author cannot produce an incentive for me to feel excited after two massive novels and keep me tied to the series, he has ultimately failed. I see a lot of people making the same defense for this and others series but for me its as simple as this; if a series doesn't start good and draw me in at all, I won't stick around and keep reading simply out of courtesy or the hope that one day, a worthwhile novel might emerge somewhere in the line. Same with TV shows, if seasons 1 and 2 aren't any good, I simply don't want to watch them.
I think the fact of the matter is that I suffer from a two-fold problem here; I never liked Jordan's style or setting at all, and I think I simply grew tired of High Fantasy along the way.
