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Edited on Sat Dec-11-04 07:41 AM by RandomUser
I read the first trilogy and the second. But I'm leery of reading anything else by this author. I really had to struggle to finish them (just to say that I did :D). But I found that his writing style really started to drag after a while. The first book was okay (very strong emotional appeal), but the actual prose got worse with each successive volume.
Maybe it's just me, but I felt he grew too verbose and his words started to suffer. It's not the length of his novels that bother me (I've read many novels over 1000pgs -- Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan, etc.), rather it's that he stops trying to tighten his prose and cut out the dross. He's fallen in love with his words and declines to trim the excess to sharpen up the delivery. So he ends up writing at great length about nothing of consequence to the plot.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a disease that affects many otherwise good authors. They need better editors who are firmer with them about hacking away the deadwood to create a stronger structure.
I still remember slogging through all six of those Thomas Covenant books, and I'm not eager to repeat something I viewed more as a chore than enjoyment.
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