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Yeah, the Harry Potter series does break my claim that many-volume epics fail, can't deny it. It's a pretty exceptional case though. Rowling's worldbuilding isn't particularly solid but she knew exactly what she wanted and added just enough to get the plot where she wanted it to go. People...

Kinda, again "The author died trying to finish" doesn't really sell it as a good idea to me. And honestly, Wheel of Time bogged down quite a bit after the fourth book, I recall one of the later volumes was literally just a recap of the entire series so far, barely any wordcount was devoted to...

I'm going to, and I honestly am having trouble believing it, come to Martin's defense a bit here. I don't think it's just him, the entire genre of "Fifteen-book two-million word epics" is a bad one. Trilogies work. Tredecologies are just out of luck. Pretty much every one of them has no...