I thought the first book was one of the weaker of the series. It is, as you say, inoffensive, but I didn't think the series started getting good until book four (Taltos), and nine through twelve were the most reliably good.
I've never felt like the books were intended to be that funny. Witty, yes, but not really funny. Usually what's happening, particularly later on in the series, is quite serious.
The world is a delicious pile of nonsense, which Brust starts sorting out into something that sort of vaguely makes sense as he goes along. Jhereg is in some sense a sneak preview of the world-building material of the next five or so books. Almost everything that comes up in it is explored in much more depth and more coherently later on.
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Date: 2012-11-03 09:51 pm (UTC)I've never felt like the books were intended to be that funny. Witty, yes, but not really funny. Usually what's happening, particularly later on in the series, is quite serious.
The world is a delicious pile of nonsense, which Brust starts sorting out into something that sort of vaguely makes sense as he goes along. Jhereg is in some sense a sneak preview of the world-building material of the next five or so books. Almost everything that comes up in it is explored in much more depth and more coherently later on.