David Dyer-Bennet wrote (in response to me): > > As for Kurtz, yes, I was explicitly recommending the first two > > trilogies. > > That's about right. Either that or just the first 1. I'd be very > doubtful about anything past that, anyway. I was trying to stick firmly to books published by 1982 or '83 at the latest to be sure to be close to the right age range. Then again, by the time I was 11, I was well into Fantasy and working my way through Heinlein, Herbert and a bunch of other hard SF. > > Wow. People feel strongly about Donaldson! > > True. Well, about his *books*. From what little I've seen of him Touché. > personally, he's not only a generally nice man, he even expresses all > the right attitudes (i.e. he agrees with me) in philosophy-of-writing > discussions. I just can't stand the books he writes. I'm curious. A question especially for those who responded strongly to my recommendation for the Covenant series, how old were you when you read them, if you recall. I, for example, do not recall the rape scene mentioned by someone as being at the begining of the first one - Lord Foul's Bane - although I think I do remember a human sacrifice. It has been many years since I went back an reread this one. Ususally I'll start with The Illearth War if I want to dip back into it. I definitely read them before The One Tree came out in April of '82 which means I was not yet 12 and may have been only 10 when I started reading these. Casey