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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 409065" data-attributes="member: 3887">It's a textbook example of a love/hate relationship for me. I read all 6 in high school. And 15 years later I still can't make up my mind. I usually recommend them because there's a lot to recommend in them --particularly in the second trilogy where Donaldson seems out to utterly invert the standard fantasy novel. And if you like his world, just wait until you see what becomes of it...But they aren't fun. I give Donaldson credit; he doesn't just create an antihero, he creates the only example I know of an epic powerlessness fantasy, starring self-pitying possibly delusional everyman who is effectively impotent yet deemed cosmically important...Here's my usual verdict. They're very good books you probably won't enjoy. And you're not meant to enjoy them, either, at least, not in the way your supposed to with a more tradional fantasy series. But damnit, there are so many cool parts to them...</blockquote>