It would have been flayed in the old days of the board, when there was substantial activity.īack on topic: Pat, what parts of the novel did work for you? Did you scan the critiques I posted earlier? What was the worst of the slog for you? I may seem harsh, but this sort of commentary induces as vacuum in discussion it is empty, ridiculous, vapid. You liked the dumpster fire that was Wise Man's Fear and the insanely insecure cry-for-help that was S low Regard, so I guess I should question your taste on whether the quality of a piece of fiction? Need to push through it.Īfter more than 20 years of this board, we're still seeing this sort of bullshit response? I still need to get to Empire of Grass, but after an excellent start Spinning Silver has turned into a bit of a slog and I'm finding it hard to finish the book off. The dislike I've seen from some for The Dragonbone Chair because there isn't a kickass explosion or fight scene in the first ten pages is remarkable. I suspect a key problem is that MS&T itself has fallen off the 'fantasy required reading' lists in the last decade or so and a lot of newer fantasy readers are less keen on reading the original trilogy to get to the new one.

There does seem to be a lack of excitement about the new series, which is odd given how GRRM, Rothfuss and Sanderson have hyped them up and reviews have largely been positive. He didn't write these books for the money or because he'd committed to doing something for his website that spun out of control (leading to the Shadowmarch series, still clearly his weakest work to date), but because he wanted to. Yeah I wasn't trying to be snarky.well OK i was a bit but I wasn't saying your opinions are invalid, just that it seems to be met more favorably on other sites.Īs for sales, I know nothing about how that, that's a question.Īs I said previously, Williams has sold about 30 million books, so he's not starving any time soon. *Actually, Pat alluded to how these books are not selling per expectations, and thus the critiques submitted are actually valuable as potential reasons why The Last King isn't generating hype / best seller status. It's OK to like the book, it's also OK to see it as a symptom of authorial indulgence festering some quarter-decade unchecked, to the eventual, perhaps inevitable result - predictable, bloated, and ultimately an unworthy follow up to one of the most influential and acclaimed fantasy serials of the pre-GRRM/Grimdark era. We're also not explicitily claiming it's vastly unpopular with the mass majority of readers or that our opinions represent the mass majority of readers,* simply outlining, in clear and concise critiques, why the book is not working for us.

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