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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1748299" data-attributes="member: 707">This was my impression as well.  I can respect Donaldson for creating a flawed-human profile in Thomas Covenant.  I can respect him for creating the Land, which I thought was a fascinating setting (especially in the second series. I've never seen another author so radically alter the rules of his own creation mid-series like this, before or since.)But at the end of the day, Thomas Covenant is what he is--a rapist and a jerk.  And much as I laud Donaldson for his technical mastery, I found little joy in reading him.  I never sympathized with Thomas.  Indeed, it's the only series I can recall off-hand where I was actually rooting for the protagonist to die.Still, I'm glad that he's writing again, for the sake of those who love him (and judging from this thread, there are many. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)  Me, I'll pick up A Feast for Crows instead.  Why choose between harsh reality and likeable characters when you can have both? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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