I remember reading the first book when I was about 14 or 15. I liked it enough to steal some of the ideas for my D&D campaign (my players were NOT happy with the barbarians on the giant rocs). But seeing as I'd found it at a public library I didn't have much chance to follow the series so I only got to read one or two more in the series. A year or two later I happened across book 12 or something like that.

I couldn't believe the difference. If the way women were treated weren't bad enough it was boring as hell. I'm not sure there was an actual story in there anywhere but the pointless minutia put me to sleep more than once. If you haven't read the books just imagine how boring you'd have to be to put a hormone-driven teenage male to sleep while writing about naked women.

Why on earth would anyone anywhere think they could make money by bringing that crap back?

Dave