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Originally Posted by sabredog
I would suspect Australasian purchasers are even further restricted.
My pet hate is the Thomas Covenant series.....Not my cup of tea at all.
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If I had read those as an adult, instead of the teenager I was when they came out, I would not have bothered to finish the first one. As it was, I kept a slip of paper in each volume on which I would write down the unfamiliar words. Once the book was finished I looked them all up. It was a novelty at the time to be reading something with unfamiliar vocabulary. Now I realize that it was just one more way to pad out a novel. Maybe someone here knows: Was Donaldson paid by the word?
Let me add one moment of "fairness". At the time, I hadn't really explored the idea of the anti-hero, and Thomas Covenant is an interesting example as he stumbles through an unfamiliar world wielding power he has neither earned nor understands. The theme is consistent, he lives in an insular reality and he's not immediately changed by being dropped into a different world. He's not a "big picture" guy and at 15 that is very easy to relate to.