Starting something you couldn't finishFinnbar says: I used to know a guy who tattooed LOVE across his left knuckles, but didn't tattoo HATE on the other knuckles because he was right-handed and realised he couldn't finish. Ever run out of skills or inspiration halfway through a job?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jun 2010, 13:32)
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That's one of the very few series I just plain gave up on...Can't even remember at which point I lost interest. It seemed that every book followed the same format; a large amount of well-written, considered plot progression, ultimately rendered pointless at the end of the book when the two main protagonists simply teleport somewhere and duke it out. Every time.
Why didn't they do that at the start?
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Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 27 Jun 2010, 12:44,
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Well writtenI was similar to the OP until about book 8, when I realised that RJ had developed an unfortunate habit of going on for pages about some minor protagonist's fucking buttons, and all I wanted was for the main man to make people's heads explode and to learn some new sword animal.
I never got to book 12, and feel a better man for it. RJ helped crystallise the concept that the time spent compulsively consuming crap could most likely be better occupied doing nearly anything else.
Incidentally, for mythical/heroic fantasy you can't go past the Winter of the World series by Michael Scott Rohan.
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