Over 70% chance of rain every hour today.
I've started reading book 1 of Wheel of Time. If it stops being quite so vigorous we may go for a walk in bathing suits.
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Flee the Wheel of Time. I couldn't help binge reading it, but it's irreversibly sucked dry my taste for reading fiction, 10 years back.
ReplyDeleteI used to read David Eddings so I think I can handle this...😉
ReplyDeleteYeah, I stopped after book 4 ... I couldn't take the excessively drawn out sequences, and I have a distaste for the deus ex machina which rears it's ugly head from time to time.
ReplyDeleteAfter that series, I went to a series by Jack Whyte with a book called ........ The singing sword, and one called Skystone. Sorta like precursors to King Arthur. That then sparked my interest in a series about Roman history by the unparalleled Colleen McCullough (First Man in Rome, the Grass Crown, and the like). Seriously, the absolute best I've ever read.
One thing I did at some point, was to read further tomes out of sequential order. It certainly added spice, enough to keep me hooked, a self-destructive move in retrospect.
ReplyDeleteThe thing about Eddings (I wanna say it was something about "Belgariad" or some such) was that he had pretty ...er ... creative names of people and places. It got kinda distracting. I read a bunch of his stuff when I was in highschool. Enjoyable, but I felt like they were sorta fluffy by comparison. Of course, that's just me ... and those sorts of opinions are going to be heavily influenced by life events and whatnot.
ReplyDeleteAnother series I absolutely adored was the original Shannara trilogy by Terry Brooks. (Sword, Elfstones, Wishsong). I read them, again, when I was in highschool, so I barely remember them other than that I greatly enjoyed them.
The offshoots weren't as good, IMO.