At 12:02 11/25/2002 -0500, Casey Rousseau wrote: > > > 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. I have some sort of visceral response to the Donaldson books--so much so, that although I have picked one up and actually read the blurb, I have never been able to force myself to actually take it to the clerk and BUY it. I have about the same reponse when faced with a book by John Norman. With Norman, I can understand why I feel that way. It seems that Donaldson just turns on my squick sensor. -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net