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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2409293" data-attributes="member: 2205">I'm generally frustrated with authors who string me along without actually explaining anything about the setting or the characters, or what they're doing, or why.  It's a bit of a tricky balance between tedious info-dumps and parcelling out information at a pace that isn't frustrating.  For my taste, Erikson falls very squarely on the "too sparse" side.  Robert Jordan is a good example of someone on the other side--his repetitive and detailed explanations get really tedious, especially when he throws them in the middle of action scenes.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Glen Cook did the same thing as Erikson too, although it finally started making sense after a while.  But it frustrated me quite a bit until I got to the point that I felt "comfortable" reading instead of "who is this guy again, and what's he doing, and what the heck are they talking about with warrens and Ascendents and all that, which has never been explained at all?" which is where I'm at with Erikson at the moment.  I dropped Black Company twice because of that frustration before I finally just gritted my teeth and powered through it until it started coming together.</blockquote>