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Originally Posted by cherdman
In the case of the Thomas Covenant books I think I read 3/4 of the book and just could not finish. Try as I might I could not overcome my loathing for Thomas Covenant and the writing seemed really dry and stilted to me. MAYBE I'll give those another go at some point.
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Ditto here. I read the whole first book, started the second, and gave up. Hated the character, didn't like the writing, couldn't keep going. Friends have told me I might like the second trilogy more, but there are too many good books that I know I like for me to have made time to give these another go.
Then again, though I liked Brust's
Jhereg and
Yendi, I really didn't like
Teckla when I first read it, nearly 20 years ago. Recently, on a recommendation that the rest of the series is better, I re-read the first three books, and found that I liked
Teckla more than I expected to (though it's still probably my least favorite of the series). So maybe I ought to give Stephen Donaldson another try....