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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
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A Swedish friend told me I just had to read this series - it was like Tolkien but better. I borrowed the first three, and dutifully read them, waiting for the point to dawn. It never did. Tolkien, to me, is all about the language and the names, and Donaldson's names ranged between uninspired and downright moronic. ("Berek Halfhand". Bleah.) It just grated.
To add insult to injury, I managed to drop one volume into the bath while reading it, so I had to buy a new copy to return to him. I've not looked at Donaldson since.
To add insult to injury, I managed to drop one volume into the bath while reading it, so I had to buy a new copy to return to him. I've not looked at Donaldson since.
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Started Reading
January 1, 1983
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Finished Reading
April 18, 2009
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By the way, since you were asleep, I should let you know that there are a couple of amusing moments in Close Encounters. For example, when Richard Dreyfuss discovers that François Truffaut is running the project, and he says "You can't be in charge! You're not even American!"
Well, it felt good for second to drop the damn thing in the water, but then I realized that I would have to accept the consequences as well, and really I would have been better off not doing it. Symbolic, huh? But I keep making these foolish dramatic gestures.
You mean, like the way Mrs Sartre says "Coitus!" in the Monty Python sketch?
I read this book when I was in my mid-teens and I remember having to list a heap of obscure words to look up later.
I don't use the bath, so there is no chance that I'll drop it in the tub. But I do read on the toilet. ;)
Most assuredly. But will they run afoul of GR guidelines?
This is the one with the protagonist who has leprosy, right? I did learn a lot about the disease from the first chapter.