On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 07:06 PM, Davis, Iain E. wrote: > This is interesting, since I never made it past the first book. I made > the attempt because a coworker really enjoyed the books (however many > were out then...this was 8 years ago). I didn't like _any_ of the > characters, which was a big part of the problem...I thought the main > character was annoyingly inept/stupid, and the rest seemed annoying in > a > variety of other ways (arrogant, etc.). I gave up about half way > through. :) I have heard that from a lot of people. I got through the first book because my boss at work gushed about it. The ending was worth it. My, how the characters have changed since then!