Andrew Lias writes: So... this suggests a new topic. What books/series have you been especially disappointed by and why? Nothing i've read has been especially disappointing except one book which i won't mention here but i'm sure many could guess. Authors who've been recommended to me and i've found unpalatable are Donaldson (the first Covenant trilogy is terrible: one-dimensional characters and a completely unsympathetic, uninvolving protagonist) and GRRM ("A Game of Thrones" reads like any daytime soap opera as far as desperate plot twists, the truly evil people, the truly wretched people, and the unending inanity of it all). rone -- "Alan Alda's all we are." - Kurt Cobain