I have not read all the annoying epic fantasy series.

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I'm trying to educate myself culturally. What are the classic annoying fantasy series that I need to have read, as a nerd?

Notice that I'm talking about annoying fantasy series - like, stuff where every single book has the same plot, or the cast of characters grows by six or seven people every book and every book gets longer because they all need to have stuff to do, or the last eight books have pretty much just been about the author's hat bondage fetish, or whatever.

I have read Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar books and Raymond Feist's Magician books.

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Belgarath the Sorcerer is what happens when the authors can't make up their damn minds. And are also trying to retroactively make sense of ten thousand years of history that had previously only been a brief backstory for the main plot.

Still! Not nearly as bad as what happens when they then decide to publish another book that retreads three thousand of those ten thousand years of history while claiming that the original narrator had it all wrong!