[HappyHippo]

It is rewarding if you can, but only if you're in the mood for a series you can invest your life in! I have a bad habit of speed reading on re-reads, and I just CAN'T with these; they take up both parts of my brain (or is that both brain cells?). The only thing I take exception to is, like with Tolkien, the POETRY! He is very like Tolkien in the intricacy, and realism, down to creating several language structures, all of the cultures are fully developed and mapped out, and the history of the world is there from the start. You feel like Tad Williams has lived there, as well as writing it.