[LMB] What is wrong with Thomas Covenant books OT:

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Patrick McKinnion wrote:

> On 7/13/06, Marna Nightingale <marna at marna.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Patrick McKinnion wrote:
> >
> > > That, in a nutshell, is why I not only tossed the Covenant book I was
> > > reading across a room, but why I completely and utterly gave up on
> > > Jordan's "Wheel of Time" firestarters.
> > >
> > > Root canal without painkillers would be an improvement.
> >
> > There, Sir, you go too far, I think.
>
> When I get to the point that not only do I NOT care for the characters
> anymore, but wish that something would fall on them just to shut them
> up, then the series is no longer worth the effort it takes to read it.

I don't think she's arguing that point.  It's the root canal
without painkillers point :)  I'd have to argue that one too,
I've had a lot of dental trauma :)

> Wheel of Time hit that at book five.   Thomas Covenant hit it halfway
> though the first book.    Mercedes Lackey has a bad habit of coming
> close to it.    And the Anita Blake Books have very much hit it right
> now.   IMHO, of course.

I've always thought L at ck#y hit it years and years ago.  Anita
Blake, well--it depends.  Her early books are sf/f.  Her newer
books are pr0n.  (I've read part of a Merry Gentry book.  I found
it in a male friend's bathroom.  It belonged there, too.)
Unexpected genre changes do annoy folks.

~malfoy


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