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With fantasy novels specifically, yes people do want a tour guide. The Way Of Kings being 5x as long with 0.5x the plot movement of Mistborn didn't happen becau

• bitexploder 6y ago
  Yes. You sign up knowing you will have a paragraph upon paragraph about a characters clothing. Epic fantasy is meant to be fully realized and asks much more of its reader. The four best modern epic fantasy: Wheel of Time, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Song of Fire and Ice, and Way of Kings. I think GRRM has the best balance of pacing, but you don’t just sit down and casually read these stories in a weekend. Well, you can, and some people like to do a fast read and then a slow read to full absorb it. Ultimately, I quite enjoy it. The slow pace is nice. It can be an exercise in patience, but they are quite rewarding to me. There are plenty of books out there that go faster and have tighter, cleaner writing.
• yokaze 6y ago
  > It happens because Epic Fantasy as a genre is, in part, about being lead through a world. I don't see there a disagreement, it is "just" a question on how one is lead through the world: - Are you lead by the experiences by the characters of the book, and you simply feel the depth of the world behind it, and you learn to understand it over time. - Or do you have the narrator simply explain everything to you. - Or does some protagonist takes over that role. That seems a bit lazy to me, and not so appealing. Still, it can made for a good read, mind you. I definitely swallowed some of those books.