Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Chron. of Thomas Covenant Message-ID: <877@gloria.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 14:52:27 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.877 Posted: Mon Feb 4 14:52:27 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 01:53:28 EST References: <366@aicchi.UUCP> <2700@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Computer Sci. Lines: 15 > While I have read most of the T.C. books, in retrospect I wonder how I ever > did it. Donaldson's writing style is, for me, hard to swallow, and the books > seem to me to be grossly overwritten. Among friends of mine, the line > > "The horses were virtually prostrate upon their feet" > > has acquired almost a mythological flavor ... I waded only halfway through the first one, and gave up. Donaldson's style is not just overwritten, it's over-wrought. And he has the imagination of a cockroach. Besides, I have heard that somebody got leprosy from reading his books. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel