โฒ 165 โผ What is a popular book that everyone buys but nobody reads? (midwest.social) submitted 2 years ago by Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml 197 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[โ] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (4 children) The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World Not for a lack of trying permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [โ] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you kidding? This is a great book! I've probably read it about 10 times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago I'm not saying nobody desires to read it, I'm referring to how difficult it is to read because it's so wordy for some people. It's longer than the Deathly Hallows, has hundreds of characters, and the main characters only scratch the surface. Not negative things if you ask me, just these are complaints other people have. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago If you can get through it, the rest of the series is fantastic. TEotW suffers from a period of time when fantasy publishers pretty much demanded LotR, so everyone wrote LotR. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] hsl@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago I think that if you are willing to buy something like that, you're probably also willing to read it. permalink fedilink source parent [โ] init@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago That series took me something like 5-6 years to read, broken in the middle with Game of Thrones. WOT gets extremely dry by book 9 and Robert Jordan is tied up in something like two dozen plot lines with no way out. I only finished the series because I was overseas with nothing to do except listen to audiobooks on my time off for a year and a half. The last 3-4 books being written by Brandon Sanderson was the best thing that could have happened to the series. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you kidding? This is a great book! I've probably read it about 10 times. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [โ] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago I'm not saying nobody desires to read it, I'm referring to how difficult it is to read because it's so wordy for some people. It's longer than the Deathly Hallows, has hundreds of characters, and the main characters only scratch the surface. Not negative things if you ask me, just these are complaints other people have. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago I'm not saying nobody desires to read it, I'm referring to how difficult it is to read because it's so wordy for some people. It's longer than the Deathly Hallows, has hundreds of characters, and the main characters only scratch the surface. Not negative things if you ask me, just these are complaints other people have. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago If you can get through it, the rest of the series is fantastic. TEotW suffers from a period of time when fantasy publishers pretty much demanded LotR, so everyone wrote LotR. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] hsl@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago I think that if you are willing to buy something like that, you're probably also willing to read it. permalink fedilink source parent
[โ] init@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago That series took me something like 5-6 years to read, broken in the middle with Game of Thrones. WOT gets extremely dry by book 9 and Robert Jordan is tied up in something like two dozen plot lines with no way out. I only finished the series because I was overseas with nothing to do except listen to audiobooks on my time off for a year and a half. The last 3-4 books being written by Brandon Sanderson was the best thing that could have happened to the series. permalink fedilink source parent