By: Connie
I found myself skipping over vast sections of Dragons, all the while asking myself, Where is the satisfying turn of events? I think he’s stalling. To what end…it’s not difficult to imagine-and in fewer...
View ArticleBy: Jacob
When I started reading the Wheel of Time, books 1-7 were already out. I had to wait a year or so before book 8. It was a disappointment. It was slow. People wandered around, talking about things that...
View ArticleBy: Teapot
Overall I preferred it to Crows, as there was nothing like the rather pointless Brienne plotline in the earlier book. I think the low ratings are simply because he spent 900 pages building up to two...
View ArticleBy: oldtaku
This is why I stopped reading Wheel of Time as well. It got so bogged down in the ever expanding character webs that nothing of any consequence seemed to be happening. IIRC, the last book I read was...
View ArticleBy: Bob LaVesh
I’ve not read Dragons yet, waiting for the paper back version to come out (which should correspond to a drop in the kindle-version price too, I hope. Granted, Feast of Crows was not the best book in...
View ArticleBy: trajan23
This is why I feel that a trilogy should be the outer perimeter for a series; if you can’t do it in three fat books, don’t do it at all.
View ArticleBy: john
I just finished it. I agree with Razib mostly. I can understand why people gave it 5, and why people gave it 1 and I would give it 3. On itself it is relatively good. But not a lot happens and it’s...
View ArticleBy: Douglas Knight
Razib, and what did you think of this approach to evaluating a new book by reviews? If I recall correctly, your plan was to read it if it reviewed better on Amazon than Feast, but it failed that test...
View ArticleBy: Razib Khan
#8, it’s gotten worse as the reviews have gone on. if i had waited i might not have read it. i was only mildly disappointed. i kind of had low expectations cuz i thought it was going to be a bridge....
View ArticleBy: rashomon
I enjoyed Dance, and would probably give it 3 stars: Good, not great. What concerns me is the ratio of read time to wait time, as I finished it in 5 days (international flights are great reading...
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