Re-reading
the mammoth Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I got the new hardback when it came out last year, but I couldn't remember what the fuck was going on so had to go back and start from book 1 again. The new one is book 12, and they're all big enough to easily concuss a toddler. It's taken a loooooong time.
(berk, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:08, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've been planning to do that
but I'm afraid it may have suffered from the David Eddings effect, where it was good when I first read it, but since then I've come to see that his books are fucking shite, with 1 dimensional characters, awful dialogue and problems solved because basically the characters are all-powerful.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:16, Reply)

Hah! That is the least of the problems with David Eddings.
I remain amazed that he managed to get the same 5-book series published twice, then went on to condense it into three books, renames the characters, got that published twice and eventually, with the Elder Gods series, got the EXACT SAME BOOK published three or four times in a row.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:33, Reply)

you're not wrong
it was the shit he wrote with his wife that opened my eyes to just how bad his stuff is.

really quite enjoyed the belgariad etc. when I first read them. Now I'm almost tempted to get rid of them.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:43, Reply)

They were terrible
but I read them when I was ten or so, and loved them. So they've got a bit of sentimental value
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:52, Reply)

Ha, good luck with that
You'll have probably finished by the time book 13 is out, hopefully at the end of this year, and then book 14 is hopefully out next year. Hopefully.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 16:51, Reply)