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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:51:10 -0700 (PDT), derek  wrote:   
      
   >Nor mine - I hate antiheros, and Covenant is even less likeable than   
   >that depressing twit in /Catcher in the Rye/.  But somehow, I keep   
   >working through all 6 books hoping - nay praying - for redemption.  I   
   >hate Thomas Covenant, but Donaldson can make me wish I didn't.   
      
   Donaldson's writing "Covenant" sexology is more comparable with Lewis than   
   Tolkien, in that it involves comings and goings between this world and another   
   world.   
      
   I found them enjoyable in parts, with some memorable bits. But his writing   
   style is annoying, with repetitive cliches (Covenant clenching himself and   
   chewing ground glass) and strange malapropisms that should have been caught by   
   an editor (he uses "sojourning" in contexts where it is clear that the word he   
   was looking for was "journeying", for example).   
      
   The thing I enjoyed most about them was the bit in the fourth book (or the   
   first in the second trilogy) where there are different kinds of suns, and one   
   wonders what kind of sun will come next, but once one has been through all the   
   permutations even that palls. And the explanation for the phenomenon, when it   
   comes, is pretty banal, and doesn't really explain.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
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