re: #276 sizzzzlerz

God, I hate those books. I read the first couple 20 years ago and I still detest them. Fortunately, I can barely remember the plot but I do remember thinking at the time, christ, this guy could use a really good editor. As the Austrian Emperor told Mozart, there are simply too many notes. Remove some of them. In this case, there was way too many words.

All I remember is the main character had leprosy, he ended up in some other world where he could be a hero, and really that’s all. Of course, I read them about 30 years ago, but a really good series would have made more of an impression.

I remember nothing of The Wheel of Time books I read, other than people riding horses from place to place a lot and some kind of special powers some folks had.

Actually, that’s the main feature of most fantasy books, since they typically are set in a pre-industrial, feudal world.