The Eye of the World question

Bill wrote: "Any reasonable person would have stopped to think, "If the next 13 books (or however many there were when you started EotW) are the same plot repeated, why are so many people still reading this?"

I'm sorry, I know this is months late in reply...but I'm in a cheeky mood. :)

... why are so many people still reading this?

Because we're masochists.

That goes for everyone who's slogging through GRRM's stuff too.

So there. :P

I wouldn't call myself masochist and I definitely didn't slog through ASOIAF.

Nermin wrote: "I wouldn't call myself masochist and I definitely didn't slog through ASOIAF."

I was being playful. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment.

Brian wrote: "Good God, no.

WOT is a teen fantasy book series (and not a very good one, in my opinion). I say pass on it, but that's me. Try out the first book like I did. If you like it, go for it, if not, lea..."

What makes a fantasy series a "teen fantasy"? I have read WoT, but not Game of Thrones. Is the blood/gore/violence what makes Game of Thrones "adult" fantasy? Is the fact that the main characters of Wheel of Time start the series as late teenagers what makes that series for teenagers?

Teresa wrote: "Brian wrote: "Good God, no.

WOT is a teen fantasy book series (and not a very good one, in my opinion). I say pass on it, but that's me. Try out the first book like I did. If you like it, go for i..."

I wouldn't say wheel of time is just for teenagers, however I would say that it appeals to a larger demograph than ASOIAF. People I wouldn't of expected to read fantasy have plowed through this series.

(side rant.. God i hate it when they make movies/tv shows from books.. Just isn't the same. The TV/movie sucks 99.999% of the time) End rant :P


Wheel of time series = Great series up till book 6-7 then drags endlessly along. One of those series where you slowly loose your mind asking yourself.. WTF was the author thinking.. I made a honest effort to drag myself along through the rest of the books but i gave up. Really.. The first few books are quite awesome. Then the series turned into something else.

Song of ice and fire series = Honestly don't know past the first book, It couldn't hold my interest.

When you get attached to a character, it makes you want to read the next chapter. When you kill off a ton of characters, it eliminates rapport and lowers one's motivation to read the next chapter. It is one of the many reasons I don't like the series. I find that he either kills them off because he doesn't know what to do with them, or for shock value, or as a plot device (like Ned). These are not respectable reasons. It is a total cop out to call it "realistic". It's just a lack of imagination and skill on Martin's part. You know it's a bad book when you get mad at the author for what he's doing, not the characters. Sure Joffrey is a little bitch for killing Ned, but I still blame Martin and I'm not the only one who sees it that way. It goes back to that whole "rapport" issue. I don't trust Martin to give me a good book. It's like he only wrote it to fu** with people. Like someone said before--- it's easy to kill off a character, more difficult to keep them alive. You give me a small list of people who are still alive (for now!!!), I will give you a much larger list of major characters (evidently I need to refrain from using the phrase "main character") who get killed off. Like Brienne-- you get all this perspective from her and Jaime. You watch her, you see her, you get to know her really well (this is called building rapport) and then what happens? Right when you start connecting, POOF! Dead. Why would I invest time getting to know a character if I don't even know if they will survive his horrible excuse for a story anyway?