Probably against better judgement, one of my favorite genres is Fantasy. Give me some Tolkien, Donaldson or McCaffrey and I'm good to go.
I've known of the Wheel of Time series for quite a long time. A guy I worked with back in the mid 90's was a big fan of the few books that had been written by that time. He loaned me his copy of the first book in the series, but I never got around to reading it and eventually returned it to him.
I've been looking for some new fantasy reading material of late; material that doesn't relate to vampires or witches (which seems to comprise a lot of the fantasy that's published nowadays) and am thinking about giving the WoT series a go. I guess I'm wondering if anyone here has read some / all of the series and if so, what your thoughts about it are? I remember reading a couple of years back that the entire series comprises somewhere around 4.4 MILLION words. That's a lot of reading I'd be doing, and I guess I'm just trying to gauge if it's worth investing all that time or not.
Thanks in advance for any and all comments.
I've known of the Wheel of Time series for quite a long time. A guy I worked with back in the mid 90's was a big fan of the few books that had been written by that time. He loaned me his copy of the first book in the series, but I never got around to reading it and eventually returned it to him.
I've been looking for some new fantasy reading material of late; material that doesn't relate to vampires or witches (which seems to comprise a lot of the fantasy that's published nowadays) and am thinking about giving the WoT series a go. I guess I'm wondering if anyone here has read some / all of the series and if so, what your thoughts about it are? I remember reading a couple of years back that the entire series comprises somewhere around 4.4 MILLION words. That's a lot of reading I'd be doing, and I guess I'm just trying to gauge if it's worth investing all that time or not.
Thanks in advance for any and all comments.