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Originally Posted by BenG
I liked Donaldson's Thomas Covenant series even if his hero was unlikeable sometimes, but his science fictional Gap series was too much for me. I read the first three books and gave up. There was not a single character I wanted to root for. They were all bastards
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I thought the first Gap novel was a decent intellectual excercise in that everything isn't quite what it appears to me, but I didn't really have a desire to read more.
My problem with Donaldson is with his obsession with rape. Either his main character commits rape at some point, or is raped (depending on if the character is male or female). That really puts me off him. That being said, I did like reading the Mordant's Need books, if just because that for once I could actually relate to the main character.
To add to the list of authors that shouldn't be touched with a 10 foot pole: Sara Douglass. "The Wayfarer Redemption" is a mess of a book and really put me off of reading anything else she has written.