ASoIaF dragged on book 4&5 to me. I hear that. I just thought Clash of Kings and Storm or Swords were amazing.

Haven't started WoT yet. Just have the first one. Devil in the White City just took me 2.5 months.

I love Routhfus and the NotW series. Qvothe is my homeboy. Sad he's taking the GRRM route of taking forever for the Doors of Stone.

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Posted by hipgnosis

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Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:31 pm to 3nOut

What is it, would you say, that you guys get out of these pop-mainstream books?

Entertainment, above all?

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Posted by CheeseburgerEddie

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Posted on 4/15/15 at 9:40 pm to 3nOut

I don't know how difficult of a read evil in the white city is, but malazan books are "difficult" in that if you aren't paying attention closely it's easy to read 5 pages and then realize you have no clue what he was just talking about so they take a minute.

WOT is easier but the series gets somewhat bogged down - although it wasn't as bad the second time around without waiting for the books to be written. Like I said all the criticisms you see are true, strange character quirks and relationships between men and women, classic epic (prophecy, Dark Lord, etc), some slow sections, but the whole thing is so well thought out and balance I don't think ill ever find anything i like quite the same.

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