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Old 10-23-2008, 07:45 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Xenophon View Post
I quite enjoyed the various Stephen Donaldson books. That said, I feel that a word of warning is in order: Both the Thomas Covenant books and the Gap series are... grim. Very very grim. Not light reads, at all. This is not a bad thing, but it's important that you know what you are getting into.
Lord Foul's Bane, the first book in the series, is the book that taught me it would be OK to just quit reading a book. After finishing it, I vowed I'd never again force myself to finish a book that I wasn't enjoying. I kept reading thinking "it's got to get better". I mean, after all, so many people were raving about the series and how wonderful it was. At this point, all I remember is that Thomas was sad/morose/depressed and he moaned and whined all the time about how miserable he was and how misfortunate his life was. I just wanted to reach over, slap him across the face and shout "SHUT UP! I'm tired of hearing you complain."
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