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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 953896" data-attributes="member: 1015">Okay, this thread is the opposite of the "Your favorite novel series" thread.  The purpose of this one is for readers to vent:  What novel series do you hate, but everybody else seems to love?For me, I'd say Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.  Good grief, someone had better tell Robert Jordan that sometimes less is more.  I'm all for verbose descriptions and deep characters, but these books take it to the extreme;  Jordan will write whole strings of chapters where absolutely nothing of import happens, just long, rambling descriptions.  I'm a fast reader, and can usually read a 1000-page book in three or four days, but it took me a month to read The Eye of the World.And speaking of the characters, I can't really think of any I care about.  Rand is a reluctant hero to a degree of extreme annoyance, and it's hard to like a character who spends all his time whining about how he dosen't want to be a hero.  And then there are the women in the books... generally unpleasent folk who spend all their time sniffing and turning up their noses at each other.  The only character I liked was Mat.Okay, now that's off my chest... I'll let other people get to their most hated novels. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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