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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Chron. of Thomas Covenant
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 14:52:27 EST
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> 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
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