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Message: <blockquote data-quote="buzzard" data-source="post: 954361" data-attributes="member: 3003">It's almost too easy to bash Jordan, but I'll still echo the thought that even moreso than Dickens this man feels like he's being paid by the word.Other series of dreck... well I generally don't make it through a whole series if the first one sucks. However I guess the Metapsychic rebellion series by Julian May would have to be a big dissapointment to me. The Pleistocene Exile was a spectacular series. Those books are so good I re-read them every year. Then she went on to write was was essentially the prequel. The first ones detailing contact with the psychic aliens were OK, but then she got to writing the meat of what was to be the set of the rebellion. These came in three books. Jack the Bodyless, Diamond Mask, and Magnificat. The first two were OK. Things moved along, and the created world was pretty cool. Then she wrote the last one. Since we all knew there was to be a big war based on human psychics wanting to break with galactic civilization, you'd figure it would have to be a heck for a war. Feh. It was a pathetic excuse for a war. Casualties were caused by accident. The bad guys were defeated by some stupid jiggery-pokery. The whole description in the book was less than 50 pages(less than that probably, but I won't be re-reading it). After reading bits and pieces about the rebellion during the first series, you come in with great expectations about the scale of the war. She ends up writing it as a tempest in a teapot. I highly reccomend her original series. Just leave it at that. buzzard</blockquote>

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