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I liked Thomas Covenant, but I will not argue with anyone who hates the books because I get why. I never read any of his other work.
The thread is old, and I don't remember if I said this before...
Robert Holdstock is a level of awful that shocks me, but perplexes me all the same.
I read Where Time Winds Blow as a youth, and thought it was embarrassingly stupid, insulting to my intelligence as a reader, even.
Then came this absolute gem, Mythago Wood which I read in college not knowing it was the same author of Time Winds. THIS book was awesome and well-written and loaned out to many people who all loved it. Pure brilliance... and then... followed up by a sequel that was total sh... er... garbage! Ugh!!!
Mythago Wood was based on Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, and well done. In the sequel, Holdstock used the same setting but shoe-horned in Campbell's follow-up Masks of God. It was awful, inappropriate, and totally sh... er... awful.
I think I'm most bothered by the fact that he had a great book, and then dropped the ball so badly it passed through the Earth's core and ended up in China.
At least Frank Herbert started good, and was consistently bad from then on. I never thought I'd appreciate that quality.
-Pie
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