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when it comes to their books.

The way LOTR was written made it so fucking boring, I dropped it halfway through The Two Towers.

The Twilight series, on the other hand, was so entertaining that I read it till the very end. I don't care if the characters are trashy / drama is crap / whatever; I just want to be entertained.

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This is all based on my weak memory, but I read maybe half Robert Jordan's wheel of time and dont remember having the same issue. I can't remember why I didnt finish the series though, so maybe it was a bit too drawn out for me after all.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I recal lots of joking about being paid by the word, even he himself made jokes about the length of his novels, when he was dying while trying to finish the last of the story he said Tor would have to invent a new binding method because he was going to fit it all into the last one, no matter what. Sadly he didn't have enough time but left enough worldbuilding behind.

I think they might have been some of my favorates in part because of the length tbh, I'm a very fast reader.