Vox Hunt: I Finished It
Books: Show us the longest book you've ever read. (All the way through.)
I'm not quite 100% sure if it's the longest book I've read, but it very well may be any one of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time books. Perhaps The Great Hunt....that one was pretty long.
Guy was chunking out close to 2000 pages within a year at one point.
I grew tired of the series around book eight or nine....it started to get a bit complicated, and too politically-based, and there was way too much time between releases for me to even remember what the hell was happening. Or who was where.
They were pretty long books though.
(Hated the cover art.)
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I used to like Jordan's entries in the Conan series. His world-map in the WoT books even resembles Howard's Hyboria map a lot. But, then again, the whole story is pretty much a margarita of Conan, Lord of the Rings and Star Wars themes anyway.
Prolly why I liked it.
His Conan series was good, but Robert E. Howard's are still much better.
You need to read Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series. 1. It's very good. 2. It's only 3 books long (4 if you count that they had to split the huge 3rd book into 2 paperbacks).
P.S. I hate Darryl K. Sweet, too.
Most of the really good Conan work was done by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter in the 50s and 60s, based on some of Howard's old manuscripts. Of course Rob's was the original, but they really fleshed out the world.
I still love to read "Red Nails" on occasion though.
These are two series I think would make good films, if they were handled carefully. I cringe to think of another poorly-executed Conan film, but more likely than not that's what would happen, as folks just can't seem to get the idiotic image of post-Pumping Iron Arnie out of their heads and you know it would be directed by monkeys (having said that, I admit I enjoy the De Laurentiis film a whole lot, along with the soundtrack by the late Basil Pouledoris. But I'd love to see an even more detailed portrayal of the character and the colorful world of the Hyborean Age, with all the snazz of today's CGI sets. Oh, and no more Austrian-accented hero.) Wheel of Time would probably need more......time......to flesh out correctly, maybe it would be a better TV series. If they could spare the budget for FX, I guess.
Then again, maybe not.
(I still hate those covers. Darryl K. Sweet, you say? He sucks. Him and his stumpy, rumply wooden-limbed fantasy heroes. Gimme a break. I'll take some Frazetta any day.)