• SirSamuel@lemmy.world
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      30 days ago

      I have a friend that grew up reading the Wheel of Time series. He talked it up a lot. I got through the first two books and couldn’t keep going. He said, “It gets really good at the end of book three. Book four is amazing. Books five, six, and seven are only okay. There’s a couple more that are really good, but the last book falls flat.”

      And I realized that’s probably how people that never watched Star Wars experience it after we recommend the movies to them. “This one specific movie is amazing, and those two are pretty okay. That one was good in its time and I like it for nostalgia. We didn’t talk about how the movie series ended. Want to watch the cartoons?”

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        30 days ago

        I’m reading through The Wheel of Time for the second time right now and my experience has been different. It’s crazy how the tone changes from the first book to the last, and the amount of character development that occurs. I think each book is been better than the last, and each for different reasons.

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          30 days ago

          I just couldn’t get through it. But to each his own, I had a good friend who refused to read Pratchett’s Thief of Time because “books need chapters” lol

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    29 days ago

    Sigh… Its the same as it always was, the people who hate Star Wars the most themselves the biggest fans of Star Wars.

    Everything made after they were a child is not as good because it never lives up to the nostalgia.

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    1 month ago

    There’s only one Star Wars movie. The rest are fanfiction.

    Y’all are just lucky the teen vampires and pokemen haven’t shown up (yet).