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Originally Posted by The Ace

I have always felt that neither Covenant nor Donaldson ever lived up to expectations.

When i first read 'Lord Fouls Bane' back in the late 'seventies, i had never heard of Stephen Donaldson, so i had no prior expectations.
From the first page to the last i was completely mesmerised. There had never been a 'hero' like Thomas Covenant - or if there had, then i had never encountered him.
I had to wait for each book to come out and it was bloody terrible ( I think they were released pretty much yearly-but each year seemed very, very long).
I remember one murky thursday morning in 1983 or thereabouts, mooching past my local bookshop (gone now,alas) and there, in the window the legend 'THE WAIT IS OVER' and it was announcing the arrival of 'White Gold Wielder'. It is my good fortune that the trousers i was wearing were - as a consequence of the somewhat chilly morning - unusually stout, and i made it home without too much disgrace becoming attached to the family name...
In Short, The Ace, I humbly beg to disagree.