David Eddings > Robert Jordan ?

I just read Eye Of The World / Wheel Of Time I and I don't get the hype that this fantasy series receives at all. A lot of it seems to be heavily borrowed from Eddings' Belgariad saga (which is my favorite fantasy series). Yes, Jordan has a much more sophisticated writing style and I guess a bigger vocabulary. But the pace, his plotting, his story-writing ability kinda sucked in the first book. Does it get better with the next couple of books?

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in my experience the WOT books get slower and slower ... or at least more boring as you go along the series (although i didn't read the last 1 - 3)
go buy malazan book of the fallen by steven erikson or martins song of ice and fire .. both infinitely superior, although i personally like erikson even better

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>>13
truth