Posted: Mar 23, 2015 8:18 pm
Ah, the Covenant books are wonderful. The original ones at least.
Clearly other folks are free to disagree.
If you have only read the first of the trilogy (Lord Fouls Bane) and found it slow I would remind you that a similar judgment is commonly heard when people read The Fellowship of The Ring. On the whole, people that persevere are rewarded and are glad that they did so. OK Vaz-Scep- you didn't like that either. I'd argue that the Covenant books pick up far more quickly are are less in need of editing down that The Lord of The Rings. That said, the sprawl is part of the appeal of the Tolkien work in my view.
Clearly other folks are free to disagree.
If you have only read the first of the trilogy (Lord Fouls Bane) and found it slow I would remind you that a similar judgment is commonly heard when people read The Fellowship of The Ring. On the whole, people that persevere are rewarded and are glad that they did so. OK Vaz-Scep- you didn't like that either. I'd argue that the Covenant books pick up far more quickly are are less in need of editing down that The Lord of The Rings. That said, the sprawl is part of the appeal of the Tolkien work in my view.