Been reading Bearers of the black staff by Terry Brooks. Have been for months now. Kept putting it of due to being...eh...underwhelmed, to say the least. It's character's are hollow, shallow archetypes filled with informed abilities and traits, the story is duller and blunter than thor's hammer and everyone's dialogue for the first 120 pages or so (haven't gotten further) consists mainly of exposition. The lack of effort is nothing short of amazing. It's fascinatingly bad.