[QUOTE="ultimameteora"][QUOTE="cain006"]If you're a completionist and have to finish every book in a series, please stop as soon as possible. The series is mostly crap. There's a lot of dumb moments in the series, there's multiple pages of the author pushing his ideals to you, and a lot of parts of the books are relatively meaningless. Awful Awful series.
cain006
Really? I really liked the TV series, so I wanted to check the books out. I'm not really a book reader though. I'll see if I like the first book or not. The first book is good, nothing special. Goes downhill from there, and some books like Naked Empire are just awful. As a whole it's not terrible, but your time would be better spent on an amazing series like The Malazan series by Steven Erikson.I personally loved every book in the Sword of Truth series. The preachy parts did get kind of repetitive, but everything else was great. The main characters are wonderful and should be looked at as great role models - honest, kind, and trustworthy. The backstory is great (his newest novel actually covers part of it), and the world overall is just an interesting place. Its morals were extremely black and white, but i find it more interesting to watch good triumph over evil than some idiot walking around without any clear moral platform (like every character in AGOT, which i love too, btw).
I recommend The Unincorporated Man. It takes place in the future and focuses on structure in society. In this future every person is a corporation that you can buy and sell stock in. If a person is a good worker then more people will invest in them so they can receive dividends in return for their investment. The main character is a billionaire from the present day who freezes himself and wakes up in the future, but he has no shares of stock. He is unincorporated and, of course, opposes the incorporation societal system in place.
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