I keep trying to comment on this and failing. Words have literally failed me.

But I think the major boggle factor is: you read Radix AND THEN YOU READ MORE?!!!

The story goes a little something like this:

- A certain FB commenter who shall remain nameless mentions that he's reading The Last Legends of Earth, years ago. It sounds pretty damn cool (and to be fair, it is).
- I spend a lot of fruitless time trying to track it down, not helped by the fact that it doesn't seem to be in print in the UK. I eventually bite the bullet and order it from Amazon in the US. Then I flip to the back and find out it's the fourth in a series.
- Like a big dumb goon, I leave it on the shelf until I can find the earlier books, which I am later able to get dirt cheap at the Oxfam bookshop (and thank God I didn't pay full price for them).
- I read Radix and hate it, but the commenter in question assures me that Last Legends is better. By this point I've worked out that the novels are actually independent of one another and so I resolve to keep reading, but not to waste too much time on those volumes which are clearly shit. (This saved me from reading all of Arc of the Dream; if Radix was actually good, I might have kept going in that one in the home that it would improve.)