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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 1700562" data-attributes="member: 16212">Yup, well put. In the interests of full disclosure, the first trilogy is probably my favourite set of novels *ever*. The rape scene shocked me (as it was meant to); I read it with a sneer of hatred for Covenant (as I was meant to); from that moment on, the fate of the Land took second place to my revulsion for the protagonist (as his own self-loathing does). Sounds like good writing to me. And how anyone can describe him as 'uninteresting' is wholly outside the scope of my understanding. Hijacked thread alert. No, I do not believe there are any contracts between author and reader. The author writes. I read. If I like, I finish. If I am bored, I put down. Let him break every convention in the book and challenge every expectation and assumption I bring with me. As long as the words are good, I will continue reading to the end. I guess that would constitute more a letter of intent than a contract..? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>