The Fantasy Novel Thread(tm)

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Based on the recommendations in this thread I decided to buy the full Death Gate Cycle, so that should keep me busy.

The main long series I've read are WoT, Sword of Truth, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (all 10 books) and the Dark Tower. Of those the Dark Tower for me was the best. I've re-read the Wheel of Time many times but only recently finished the last book - I had read all the others before but this for this last re-read I just couldn't get past the first half of book 7 so I just jumped to the end - and I'd highly recommend that to anyone who is struggling - the mid books just aren't worth it. Similarly Sword of Truth really struggles with quality beyond maybe Faith of the Fallen, and I don't think any of them were as good as the first. ASoIaF is obviously not complete but I would say it's pretty consistent so far. The Thomas Covenant series I probably love way too much and wouldn't really recommend it to the average fantasy reader. The Dark Tower though I'd highly recommend to SK fans and fantasy/SF/horror fans in general. It's pretty strong throughout.

EDIT: If anyone is looking for some really funny Wheel of Time reviews, Adam Roberts posted some great ones several years ago - unfortunately he took down his blog but luckily someone archived the posts - you can read them here if you're interested: https://web.archive.org/web/20101029...=Wheel+of+Time