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Quote from: SteerpikeIf someone were asking for reccomendations, though, I'd always reccomend ASoIaF over WoT.

Seconded. So far, Martin is the only author that I've seen able to throw tons of characters at the reader and not make it feel like it's too much to take. Granted, there's still more books to come out on ASoIaF, so we'll see if he can keep up the quality all the way to the end.

And now we've gone irrevocably off topic :hammer:

Yeah, but we have moved on to the next week so it doesn't really matter anymore ^^
And I've taken up the many ASoIaF recommendations I've gotten over the years, and as a result I finished the first book a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was really, really great (and I don't normally fall for books with knights and fancy coats of arms) and I've already lent it to a friend so I could get him off his WoT addiction.
For some reason not many people know of ASoIaF in Denmark... they don't even have the books in most bookstores here; only WoT and Malazan (the last of which i still have to get started on).

Out of ASoIaF, WoT and Malazan, I'd rate Malazan first (if only because the author can get his shit together) then ASoIaF and lastly WoT.

WoT isn't bad, its just... lengthy. I hope Brandon Sanderson doesn't end it badly (I'm not a fan of his endings) when he's eeked out his trilogy.

He didn't write the ending. And most of the plot and some of the actual writing comes from Jordan's notes.

Never read Malazan. But in terms of sales, nothing else really compares to WoT and SoIaF. And they're so different, that being the two leading series and being huge in scope is about all they really have in common.

Don't forget, there's a new topic up for this week ;)