Well, granted I only read read one wheel of time book, and I have read all of the Sword of Truth Books 4 or 5 times, but from what I can gather it's basically the same premise--- regular guy turns out to be the chosen one who will save the world, etc etc, the big difference between the two is that SoT reveals details about the world and its history when they are necessary, while WoT makes me sit through pages of it for no good reason. Another big one is that the SoT characters are all more real--- you read one SoT book and you want to find out what happens to everyone. After I read WoT, I had a hard time remembering anyone's NAME, much less anything else about them. So, there's my 2 cents... And while I'm at it, you're right, Martin and Feist both write pretty solid stuff--- no complaints here. (For once...)
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Date: 2005-09-17 02:51 pm (UTC)