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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 123508" data-attributes="member: 151">It's my belief that Ned Stark's primary role was to underscore this very point.  I nearly dropped the book when they killed him, so sure I was that he'd make it through.  I kept trying to figure out how this would turn out to be a trick, and quickly realized that it wasn't, and that bad things happen to good people.  There are plenty of heroes in Martin's series...but there are no pristine characters who always follow the sign of righteousness.  At least, not in the sunshine fashion of say, characters from Eddings work.  Jordan's characters are a more noble group, but they too see the necessity of pragmatism in the face of armageddon.  They will do what they must, even if they don't like it....but are essentially very likeable characters.  Martin's characters aren't always very likeable...but they're always compelling.I love the WoT, and I don't mind it taking a long time.  What I mind is that Jordan appears stymied by his own creation, and his gotten bogged down in trying to continue it.  I worry that it's going to devolve into a 'War against the Chtorr'...with the books getting more and more distant, until the author is perrenially promising the next book every year, and never delivering.  Or worse, that he manages to release a new book periodically, but the story fails to progress significantly.  The most recent book gives me hope that this will not happen.  I hope.That said, there's nothing wrong with disliking this style of fiction.  But I've never said anything bad about Dragonlance, for the record.  It's not my cup of tea, but I know many people who enjoyed it, until it became something of a cash-cow for TSR, who milked it far more than they probably should have.  The word Xanth comes to mind. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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