The book of the new Sun

This is a collection of the first two books of a four-part series that is very well written and has a super-compelling setting (a far future Earth civilization that is in a dark ages after an era of galactic exploration), and yet: at the end of the first book (e.g. halfway through), the first-person narrator/epic Hero says, "Here I pause. If you wish to walk no farther with me, reader, I cannot blame you. It is no easy road." I listened to the man and GTFO, and you probably will too. Perhaps the recurring involvement of busty, partially-clothed, and sexually-subservient female characters would have been enough to hold the interest of my 12 year-old self, but at this point, I can just acknowledge he's a boob man (and something of a misogynist), and move on.

This seems to be a book people either love or hate. Unfortunately, I am in the latter group. I really tried to like it, but failed. It's a ridiculously slow book, with lots of small tangents that never lead anywhere.

A journey adventure of a young man caught between the high and the low, the past and the future. It's an excellent world between fantasy and scifi, and a story told well, but I fault it for things mostly just happening to the hero - fitting in a way to the setting, but not great.

Positively my new favourite series