This is going to be an epic eventually, but it’ll be later rather than sooner. This book took something like 5 years to complete, so at that rate this is going to be done in… 2011? Is that right? Christ, we’ll all be dead by then. Pick up the pace, son, this is damned fine readin’!
No one should be allowed to put out a first book that’s this good. OK, it was two parts and they came out separately at the time, but still. It’s things like this that make people afraid to even try to make a first book because they know it can’t live up to this and Goodbye, Chunky Rice. Strive for mediocrity, you bastards!