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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier
I'm still on book 2, part of me really loves this saga but another part of me often finds it slow and tedious. I still can't decide what I really think about it.
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I can't say I find it tedious. I understand that a great deal of the events require a lot of advanced set-up; there are things that were mentioned in the first book that don't have consequences until the fourth for instance. I've also noticed that they tend to meander in details for 90% of the novel, and then hit you in the face with the entire climax occurring in the span of the last chapter, which at times can be confusing and overwhelming compared to the rest of the lead in. I'm only four books in, so it's too early for me to say whether the slower plot threads are necessary in the long run, but I'm very happy with the series so far, and impressed by the advanced set up of detail.
If you've read Lord of the Rings and made it through the council of Elrond, then you can pretty much make it through anything I think.