I do remember
Sword of Shanara fondly from my youth but I re-read it a few years ago and .. wow ... I didn't remember how derivative it was of Tolkien. The original is much better. I liked the next two books and them being much more original than the first one though.
One that I haven't seen here that I really enjoy is the Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula LeGuin (1968-1972). I haven't read the 4th but it was written a couple decades after the first 3.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
No, he's not evil.  He's just unpleasant. I'm all for charming-villains/antiheroes-as-protagonists (I like Jaime Lannister and the Hound in ASOIAF and the TV series, for example) , but I just couldn't stomach Thomas Covenant. He was too annoying. No charm whatsoever.
Of course, I read "Lord Foul's Bane" about 20 years ago, so my memories of him are not too fresh. |
Unpleasant is an understatement to me. Maybe Thomas isn't evil by the end of the book but I couldn't get past the scene with Lena* and I can't think of any reason I would want to attempt these again.
*I had to go look it up in wikipedia to make sure I was remembering it right. I was.
