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Originally Posted by Penforhire
Some of you will give me crap for this but I propose avoiding Stephen R. Donaldson's "Thomas Covenant" series. It wasn't badly written but I guess I just need SOMEONE to empathize with. I think all it did was give me a headache (as did some of Tolkien's meanderings but THAT at least had a payoff).
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I read the first three Covenant novels back when with reasonable pleasure, largely because it
wasn't Yet Another Tolkien Clone. I plowed rather grimly through the second series, and haven't attempted anything else he's written. Donaldson is writing from a set of philosophical premises I suspect I don't agree with. He's also annoying for vocabulary. I don't mind an author using obscure words, but I expect him to get them right when he does. Gene Wolfe does it well. Donaldson doesn't.
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Dennis