i'm still going.
part of my soul died when i came up with the pithy summation of the works as "What happens when the author of 'men are from mars women are from venus' tries to write tolkien"
it was a bit too accurate. it made me realise i'm going to have to put up with this shit for the rest of the fucking books. i'm kinda hoping Brandon Sanderson downplays some of this shit. i'm actually only reading this because i like his books.
i'm on a crown of swords now. the half way point. i can't fucking stop now. i morn for the days of book one which y'know actually felt like a variant of fellowship of the ring. there are good bits. it's not terrible. but my god it's fucking irritating at times. most of the problems that occur are because all the "good guys" are fucking twats most of the time. no one fucking believes what anyone else says. they live in a world where the entire north is rotting and they seems to disbelieve in the coming of the dark one.
in song of ice and fire i get why most countries are fighting among themselves and dubious about reports from beyond the wall. they have a giant fucking wall and even the people on the wall think the evil force is mythical.
in wheel of time the entire north is constantly under attack from evil creatures when people who live a few days ride away think these things are mythical.
i'm not sure if it's more "realistic" or not but it make you want to slap just about everyone.
i read the long earth in about 6 hours
it was a delightful slice of pickled ginger after a 30 foot nigirizushi that had roofing insulation foam instead of rice
i'm also listening to uni lectures on sci-fi and applying some of the theories to it
