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Bleah. Joel Send a noteboard - 14/09/2009 09:59:21 AM
It's quite popular, but some people call it slow and copy cat. I find it's one of the best series I ever read.

I DO find it very derivative, even more so than is inevitable within the fantasy genre. Even Williams referred to it at one point as "The Bloated Epic" and given it's only three books that became four because he couldn't wrap up the last one that says something. I have a standing offer to Oscar to send him my copies if he ever gets around to giving me his mailing address. :P
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