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Any one read this?

I stcuk with this series several years ago (still ongoign I believe) but I really didn't like Janny Wurt's Wars of Light and Shadow (through 5 long-winded books). I'm usually not the one that complains about methodical writers, description, or wasted pages of do-nothing narrative, but this series takes the cake. I really liked the potential of Arithorn as a character, but if I read 5 books and nothing happens accept displaying to me all the ways an author can conceive to cause nothing to happen, even I get weary.

While hardly the worst epic fantasy I can think of (Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Robert Newcomb, Terry Goodkind), I just can't see recommending this series when so much better is available a options
 
I have it lying around somewhere - books I found second-hand and bought without really knowing what they were. I plan on reading them at some point, starting with Curse of the Mistwraith, I think that's the appropriate place to start.
 
Ainulindale said:
I stuck with this series several years ago (still ongoing I believe) but I really didn't like Janny Wurt's Wars of Light and Shadow (through 5 long-winded books - that extend into Alliance of the Light after the Ships of Merior arc). I'm usually not the one that complains about methodical writers, description, or wasted pages of do-nothing narrative, but this series takes the cake. I really liked the potential of Arithorn as a character, but if I read 5 books and nothing happens accept displaying to me all the ways an author can conceive to cause nothing to happen, even I get weary.

While hardly the worst epic fantasy I can think of (Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Robert Newcomb, Terry Goodkind), I just can't see recommending this series when so much better is available a options
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Well, I can agree with what you are saying. I tried both Goodkind nad Brooks and got nowhere. However, I have read her before. She wrote the Empire book that spun off of Feists work. I liked it alot, however that was more Feist's ideas then hers, which is why I am questioning this.
 
Well, I can agree with what you are saying. I tried both Goodkind nad Brooks and got nowhere. However, I have read her before. She wrote the Empire book that spun off of Feists work. I liked it alot, however that was more Feist's ideas then hers, which is why I am questioning this.
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Well, to be honest I find Feist to be even less appealing than Wurts. :)
 
Ainulindale said:
Well, to be honest I find Feist to be even less appealing than Wurts. :)
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I know alot of people don't like him. He is pretty simple, but I like to read simple stories once in while. Fantasy shouldn't be to complex, takes the fun out of it. That's why I can't stand Jordon.
 
I know alot of people don't like him. He is pretty simple, but I like to read simple stories once in while. Fantasy shouldn't be to complex, takes the fun out of it. That's why I can't stand Jordon.
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I'm assuming you mean Robert Jordan (if I'm wrong, my apologies), who I find completely lacking regarding any complexity :D. Being long-winded doesn't equate to complexity in my opinion.
 
Ainulindale said:
I'm assuming you mean Robert Jordan (if I'm wrong, my apologies), who I find completely lacking regarding any complexity :D. Being long-winded doesn't equate to complexity in my opinion.
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I am speaking of him, yes. His plot is uncomplex, but his explainations are, very boring. I read up to book the before I realized that I didn't know what was going on and I didn't care.
 
Ainulindale said:
Well, to be honest I find Feist to be even less appealing than Wurts. :)
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If its any consolation, Feist and Wurts' Empire series far surpasses anything they've written on their own. It isn't brilliant, but at the very least its competent - ie not Erikson, Martin, Bakker level epic fantasy or even close, but roughly as good as efforts like Greg Keyes' Kingdom of Thorn and Bone.
 
kingdom of thorn and bone, i do love my fantasy though i am fairly limited to a few, to be fair, awful authors...
 
Thaibebop said:
Janny Wurts
The Wars of Light and Shadow

Please, tell me what you think if you have.
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I'm sure I haven't, but since you made me click, can I tell you anyway?

Vorian said:
kingdom of thorn and bone, i do love my fantasy though i am fairly limited to a few, to be fair, awful authors...
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How can you love your fantasy, if you are limited to a few awful authors?
 
Brys said:
If its any consolation, Feist and Wurts' Empire series far surpasses anything they've written on their own. It isn't brilliant, but at the very least its competent - ie not Erikson, Martin, Bakker level epic fantasy or even close, but roughly as good as efforts like Greg Keyes' Kingdom of Thorn and Bone.
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Agreed

Empire trilogy is probably on my top 10 list.

I was trying to get through the light and shadow books, but I keep ending up putting them down and not getting back to them for a few years. I find the big wizards kinda lack description & personality for the most part, and sometimes the characters get a bit confusingly blah. Don't know how else to put it.
 
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