I remember one time someone told me “being an adult is when you realise you can cook yourself bacon whenever you want, and just eat it, and nobody will stop you”.

Damn I feel like I only just upgraded to v14. Those guys develop fast.

When I was little. I thought my parents were the smartest people in the world. Then when I went to school, I thought my teachers were the smartest people in the world, because they were way smarter than my parents. When I got to high school, I thought my maths and English and science teachers where the smartest people in the world, because they were way smarter than my primary school teachers.

Now 20 years later, I’m friends with lots of people who teach high school, and secretly they’re not that smart. All they need to do is learn the material from the curriculum and teach it to the students.

Enormous respect for what they do, I couldn’t do it, but it’s not a job that requires higher than average intelligence.

You’re probably right, it’s been years since I read it, and I was simply piggy backing off other criticisms I’ve read about the book by others saying similar things online.

Yeah. It’s full of really common pop-fiction tropes. But the writing is so beautiful you don’t notice it.

It really jumped the shark when in the second book the guy who is a virgin and can’t talk to girls suddenly became the god of sex and literally out-sexed the sex nymph who had been sexing men to death for years.

I like the books, superficially they are a treat, the prose is brilliant, the words feel nice on my brain.

But reading just a little bit deeper than that, you start to realise the story is pretty empty. The characters are hollow. The first two books are pretty much the same story loop over and over again. The characters making the same mistakes and learning the same lessons over and over again.

The way the author writes female characters makes you seriously worry about the authors relationship with women, and if he even knows any women.

Surprised I haven’t seen someone yet mention Magician by Raymond E Feist. That whole first riftwar trilogy is great. Also the spin off Empire trilogy with Janny Wurts.

Seconding those who mentioned the R.A. Salvatore books including the Dark Elf series and the Icewind Dale series.