Read it.
Liked it. Didn't love it. A bit disappointed, actually.
I still love the first chronicles. I think. It's been a few years since I last read them. But this last one, I found it a tad laboured and some of the prose very purple indeed. Almost as though he was trying too hard.
You know, those times when you swear you can hear the author's wheels grinding, when the narrative no longer feels effortless ...
Still. Donaldson has a brilliant imagination and can conjour some startlingly powerful images.
I don't like the real world stuff because it always feels forced and it's not until he gets to the Land that his imagination soars.
Tolkien aside, I really do believe that SRRD has successfully created a fully formed secondary world. So many fantasy authors only give the thinnest veneer. In contrast The Land is solidly three dimensional.
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Hi Che! Good to have you here!