The Eye of the World: To the Blight Pt.2 (Wheel of Time) Buy Now

The biggest, most epic, and most yawn-inducing fantasy series of all time began with this book, which many claim is the best in the series. I found it big, epic, and yawn-inducing. The first half is a blatant Sword of Shannara retread, which is like a Lord of the Rings retread-retread. Once the book leaves the sheltering comfort of pure Tolkien-imitation imitation, the author predictably loses all idea of where the plot should go, and leaves the characters lurching from one ponderous, bland set-piece to the next. The characters themselves are pretty cookie-cutter, but the main problem is that the author simply doesn't put them in any situations that would reveal or test their character. I'm told that the rest of the series plods on in a similar fashion, becoming increasingly bogged down as the author's desire to write more overpowers his inability to think of anything more worth writing. I know that the author is sadly deceased, and that it's not polite to speak ill of the dead...but though I'm sure he was a warm and wonderful person (unlike, say, Terry Goodkind), a bad book is a bad book.Get more detail about The Eye of the World: To the Blight Pt.2 (Wheel of Time).