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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Look_a_Unicorn" data-source="post: 995061" data-attributes="member: 11886">I think it was Ursula le Guin that wrote "Earthsea" series. Was given the series-in-one-book thing as a present and got through two chapters before realising if I tried to keep reading this my brain would wriggle out my earhole & beat my around the head till I stopped.Not sure what it's linked to, but there is another book that's part of a series, the book is "Curse of the Mistwraith." I'd rather dunk my head into radioactive goop then attempt to wade through the drek that is this book again. Got about 200 pages through before the mind-numbing apathy that is this book overcame me.I'll defend a few of the series mentioned here by saying:*Dragonlance (the original "Dragons of XX" ones at least). A fantastic introduction to fantasy literature for someone aged 12. Don't know how I'd take them now though.* WOT: Given first book aged 14 & loved it to bits. It was fantastic. I shed a tear for the whore the carcass has since become.* Shannara: I couldn't stop reading any of these books. It wasn't because I liked the characters, or because I was engrossed in the storyline. I think it was more out of disbelief that an entire series could be written that had virtually no interesting events in it whatsoever.* Thomas Covenant: Maybe the darkness of the setting appeals to many, I htought the world was actually pretty damn cool. But making the main character a sniveller that whinges & whines about the consequences of his own actions when everyone else had already forgiven him? I finished the series in the hopes SOMEONE would beat the living tar out of him. No such luck <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />.Did I say defend? Umm ok thenLord of the Rings: First true fantasy series, an entire living breathing world of such breathtaking intricacy that your modern reader, not being grabbed in the first 30 minutes by graphic violence, seductive females or witty one-liners casts it to one side? I'm happy to keep this cherished series for those with the werewithal to thoroughly appreciate it.And I realise that people will be thinking the same thing about many of the series I bagged out, I guess it all comes down to "where your at" at the time you pick a book up.</blockquote>

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