The first three books, and to a slightly lesser extent the fourth, in WoT are some of my favorite fantasy books ever, even if the super weird gender dynamics would probably be even more off putting to me now than they were a decade ago. I mean if I noticed them back when I was still possibly watching Fox News it must have been some ****. I'd definitely recommend giving them a shot though. But after that the books start to go nowhere until around seven or eight or whatever they go completely and utterly to **** and drag on the same three or four plot points for like four books. There's literally a book near the end where it takes like 800 pages for one of the main characters to go down a road and if you're still reading by that point it's only out of loyalty.
But even if you don't want to get into that stupidity Eye of the World is a truly great fantasy debut to get into.
And I have books two and three of Hobb's Farseer trilogy but never got very far since I was checking the first out as a library book and I can never concentrate on things and now I'm stuck with two books I can't read yet until I get the first. Seemed good though and I only realized I didn't have the first like a week ago when I got the urge to pick it back up. Will have to look into that.
BTW you should read the Sword of Truth series.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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