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Title: a whiter shade of pale
Review: O, the Shame: 782 pages I will never get back (800, including the glossary). Read Tolkien, Martin, Rothfuss. Then reread them. Do this instead of wasting your time on Jordan, whose work pales in comparison. Highly derivative of Tolkien, but about a hundredth as well written or interesting. Never makes you laugh, like Martin does every time you encounter Tyrion Lannister. Gives you almost no real sense of character, as does Rothfuss with his protagonist, Kvothe. Overall, just really dull, flat, and lifeless. I slogged through this first book of the series but will never crack open the 2nd or 3rd I unfortunately bought as part of a box set. One last thing - they say, "Never judge a book by its cover." But, in this case, the extremely cheesy cover (of the mass market paperback edition) really should have made me stay away.
