[personal profile] snarp
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.

Date: 2010-06-20 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
And also, while the first 5 Belgariad books are pretty entertaining, especially if you're sixteen, the second five canonically repeat the EXACT plot of the first five. Canonically! It is explicitly stated that because of a magicevilprophecydimensional... thing... everything is happening all over again.

That, more than the usual "kill your parents and beg for mercy because you're an orphan," to me defines chutzpah.

Date: 2010-06-21 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com
Yes! It's bad, bad meta. That is not what meta is for.

Date: 2010-06-21 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mikkeneko.livejournal.com
Although in my opinion, the repeated theme of "Everything has already been decided and you have to stick exactly according to the pre-defined plot" was not as annoying in the Belgariad as it was in Belgarath the Sorcerer. I much preferred the times where disaster occurred because Belgarath simply made a mistake -- like not expecting Torak to invade Drasnia -- than when he had an opportunity to make the world a better place but didn't because 'the prophecy told him not to,' like when he didn't kill Zedar in Morindland.

Date: 2010-06-21 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com
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!

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