After reading a 42 pages of this forum, I will chime in.
I watched the first episode and then read the first book as I watched the next two. I even started on the second book. I am not trying to be a polemicist here, and I can see many of the issues that pull book-readers away from the t.v. adaptation, but to be completely honest --and maybe it gets better as it goes on. I haven't been very impressed with the first book.
People talk about the character moments and the nuance -- but I haven't been engaged by much of it. For the most part, I am just constantly distracted by the "homage" to Tolkien's work. It is almost allegorical to the Fellowship. I haven't' found many aspects of WoT (first book anyway) that feel at all original. What doesn't seem to port from Tolkien appears to port straight from LeGuin, McCarthey, and even Moorcock. You can clearly see Tolkien's influences in Beowulf, the Kalavalla etc. But they do not seem to make up all of the major plot points/characters of his maiden novel. Should I continue reading this series or is it more of the same.
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After reading a 42 pages of this forum, I will chime in.
I watched the first episode and then read the first book as I watched the next two. I even started on the second book. I am not trying to be a polemicist here, and I can see many of the issues that pull book-readers away from the t.v. adaptation, but to be completely honest --and maybe it gets better as it goes on. I haven't been very impressed with the first book.
People talk about the character moments and the nuance -- but I haven't been engaged by much of it. For the most part, I am just constantly distracted by the "homage" to Tolkien's work. It is almost allegorical to the Fellowship. I haven't' found many aspects of WoT (first book anyway) that feel at all original. What doesn't seem to port from Tolkien appears to port straight from LeGuin, McCarthey, and even Moorcock. You can clearly see Tolkien's influences in Beowulf, the Kalavalla etc. But they do not seem to make up all of the major plot points/characters of his maiden novel. Should I continue reading this series or is it more of the same.