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I am currently taking a brief break from a longer epic fantasy series to read the newest installment of a LitRPG series called "The Greatest Game." This is the nerdiest sentence I've ever written.
 
I'm trying to finish The Wheel of Time (on book 10) and it's such a slog. I don't know why people love it so much.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
I'm trying to finish The Wheel of Time (on book 10) and it's such a slog. I don't know why people love it so much.
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Books 8 through 10 are painful honestly. Winter's Heart or whatever that book is truly just dragged. I'm not a big Bran Sanderson fan overall writing wise, but he really does a solid job wrapping the series up and I think it's kind of worth it to get there. But I totally understand how/why people just give up. I stopped reading for a couple years during Book 10 and then came back to finish.
 
To be fair, I've been listening to a ton of it while running, cutting the grass, etc. so that could be partly why. Jordan could have really used some help naming female characters that don't all sound the same.
 
Deacfreak07 said:
To be fair, I've been listening to a ton of it while running, cutting the grass, etc. so that could be partly why. Jordan could have really used some help naming female characters that don't all sound the same.
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The number of times I got slightly confused on the E women names....was off the chart
 
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But the second you try to google what's going on, the internet is like "oh yea they total die in book whatever"
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Lol yeah this is a big problem with a lot of these fantasy series. Sometimes I'll read like the first three books in a series and then put it down and switch to something else, come back later to try and catch up with where I was and a quick google ends my life.

The Malazan subreddit is basically like "never google anybody's name ever, if you have questions ask them here with a spoilers tag"
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
I am currently taking a brief break from a longer epic fantasy series to read the newest installment of a LitRPG series called "The Greatest Game." This is the nerdiest sentence I've ever written.
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I’m wrapping up a 12 book, LitRPG series called The Cradle Series (starts with Unsouled). It’s been fine. Lots of action but it really just goes full steam ahead in the only direction it can for about 10 books before the first “oh interesting” moment happens. I also started the Battlemage Farmer series which had a really good first book then just went completely off the rails. Sad bc it’s an amazing title and funny premise.

I’ll be looking to read something far more serious once I’m done. I’m thinking “Shogun”. My only problem with books that long is that they ruin my Goodreads goal.
 
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Deacfreak07 said:
I'm trying to finish The Wheel of Time (on book 10) and it's such a slog. I don't know why people love it so much.
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I bailed after book 5 I think. I find myself thinking about the series a good amount, but if there is a giant slow down coming for the middle 5 books compared to the first 5, Im just not sure I could handle that.
 
Demonwolverine said:
I’ll be wrapping up a 12 book, LitRPG series called The Cradle Series (starts with Unsouled). It’s been fine. Lots of action but it really just goes full steam ahead in the only direction it can for about 10 books before the first “oh interesting” moment happens. I also started the Battlemage Farmer series which had a really good first book then just went completely off the rails. Sad bc it’s an amazing title and funny premise.

I’ll be looking to read something far more serious once I’m done. I’m thinking “Shogun”. My only problem with books that long is that they ruin my Goodreads goal.
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Yeah I enjoyed Cradle overall. Fun story with lots of action
 
Finished the second of the poppy war trilogy. It was…fine. First half of the first book I thought was great, but since then it’s been just okay for me. Debating whether to get the third one or not.

Also recent finished Demon Copperhead which was the best book I’ve read in years.
 
tiltdeac said:
Finished the second of the poppy war trilogy. It was…fine. First half of the first book I thought was great, but since then it’s been just okay for me. Debating whether to get the third one or not.

Also recent finished Demon Copperhead which was the best book I’ve read in years.
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Yeah this was how I was as well with the Poppy War. I didn't even grab the second book. I also started but DNF another book by RF Kuang (Babel maybe? I can't remember - it was a couple years ago). Pretty rare that I DNF a book but I think I'm just not a fan of her style/work
 
Do I need to read David Copperfield before Demon Copperhead? Or have an understanding of David Copperfield at all?
 
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If you haven’t used your freebie Rolling Stone article this month (? I don’t know how many you get), here is an excerpt from a new history on Tom Forcade and High Times I’m looking forward to reading.

Feel like this might make a good companion to Jesse Jarnow’s HEADS and Joshua Clark Davis’ From Head Shops to Whole Foods.

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How 'High Times' Became the 'Playboy' of Weed

In this chapter from the excellent new book Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s, author Sean Howe explores the origins of a magazine that became the …
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Demon Copperhead was amazing. Totally agree there.

I went on an RF Kuang binge this summer after taking The Poppy War to the beach. I agree with the loss of steam. At its best it’s a story about the ethics or war and genocide. Babel gets into similar questions with empire and revolution. The “how far is too far” and what is justified questions are interesting in the contexts presented. I think she lost her way a little with the trilogy, but I agree that the overall story is “fine” after a really strong start.
 
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