I'm not adverse to complex plots ( A Song of Ice and Fire, The Fionavar Tapestry, Gormenghast Trilogy), hundreds of characters ( A Song of Ice and Fire), nor meandering stories that take a long time to reach their destination ( Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell). Reading this definitely does not feel like entertainment, so how much further would I have to slog through the series before it starts to get better? When does it start to "get good"? We've all heard people exclaim about how great such-and-such series is, but that it doesn't start to get good until the third or fourth book. From what I've seen so far it can't be the characterizations.
What is it, exactly, that people find so great about this series? It certainly isn't the prose, nor the dialogue. Will I care for any of them by the end of the book, or the end of the series? I feel absolutely no connection to the (ridiculously named) characters. I understand this is typical, but at what point will I no longer be confused? By the end of the book? By the end of the sixth book? By the end of the last book? I'm totally confused on what's happening in the book. So far I'm about about a hundred pages in (which is painfully slow progress for me) and wondering if I should continue. I started reading Steven Erikson's Gardens of the Moon, the first book in his 10-book epic series Malazan Book of the Fallen, a week ago.
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