Lucky that Herbert let Dune stand as the masterpiece it was and didn’t feel he needed to cash in or dillute the series by adding anything else, especially not books with people (and worms) droning on and on and on about political philosophy until your brain starts to run out your nose and ears. Lucky.
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You don’t need another reason. At this point, even considering picking up those books is insane. They are poorly written and vastly too long. He’s simply not a good writer; it’s to the misfortune of all of us who’ve started that we still want to see the ending - but seriously, it’s grim work reading the last half of the series (at least) - there’s no reason to get caught up in the story knowing how bad he’s fucked up, whether or not he lives to finish it.
I’ll defend Eye Of The World to the end; it’s a good story in itself, with a solid fantasy setting (the main reason I’m a hopeless fan of the series), and the writing is certainly no worse than some of these Forgotten Realms books a friend’s convinced me to read lately. All other books after that, though, are strictly optional.
He might find himself on the happy side of the median survival time: The Median is not the Message.
Gould beat his median survival estimate by 20 years, and died of a different cancer.
Well, though I agree that there was a fall off there in the middle of the series the latest book (IMHO) was hot stuff. I guess I’m just really into the series because while I’ve heard myriad folks on this board bitch and complain about how bad it is I never have seen it. But then I LIKE hair tossing females.
Anyway, I really hope RJ pulls through and beats this thing. And I’m pretty confident that he’ll finish THIS series. I thought there was only one more book though. Hell, after the last book we have GOT to be getting fairly close to TG and the last battle…all the signs are there for gods sake. Rand just needs to spank the daughter of the 9 moons into line and get on with battling the dark one. 
He’ll finish it…he’s GOT too!
-XT
[Stewie Griffin]So…about that novel you’ve been working on. You know, the one you’ve been working on for…three years now? Got a plot? A beginning, middle, and end? Some nice characters?[/Stewie]
I liked Unfinished Tales!
storms off in a huff
Your benchmark for acceptable prose is Forgotten Realms?!
I read the first few (4? 17? 768? Who knows anymore?) WoT books, before I finally wised up and figured out his scam. Thank God I never actually paid for them. What a con artist.
That’s the first time I’ve ever seen his photo, I think. He looks like Charlie Daniels, which doesn’t help my opinion of him one bit.
What, you don’t like R. A. Salvatore? I suppose you’re one of those people who demands at least semi-interesting plots, minimally fleshed-out characters, and a relatively small number of anachronisms in your novels.
Well, not so much acceptable as readable. A fine distinction, maybe, but it’s there. 
I admittedly have pretty low standards when it comes to series like FR and WoT; they just need to be fun, not thought-provoking or exceptionally well-crafted. I’ve got other books for that.
I actually haven’t gotten to Salvatore yet. I’ve got one Drizzt book on my to-read list. I’m scared.