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    <body><![CDATA[The Thomas Covenant books have always held a special place in my heart. I freely admit that the series is not for everyone; the singular nature of the protagonist turns a lot of readers away before the first book (this one) is halfway finished.<br/><br/>Compared to other heroic fantasy, I find the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6514601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So many people love this series. Not sure why. The hero is a leperous (no, not lecherous) rapist and incredibly whiny. The bad guy is named Lord Foul, ferchissakes. I hated everything about the first few chapters of this book. Once the main character forced himself on a girl, and then the author tri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4780582">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I was told that it was quite good. I was disappointed to learn that it is exactly the opposite of that. If you can get past the ridiculously generic fantasy place and character names, you're left with a flat, poorly-written story and an unbelievable character that the author...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1686524">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[When you dream, are you responsible for your actions?<br/><br/>You might as well admit it: you'd probably do it, too.  When Thomas Covenant -- a writer who contracts leprosy and is abandoned by his wife, his friends, and society -- falls into a comatose state, he arrives at a land where his nerves...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24059816">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The blank stars reflect the fact that not only did i hate this book but I didn't even finish it and I won't because I just have too many other books that I am certain are better.  I lasted about a hundred twenty pages before I could take no more of the cantankerous anti-hero of Thomas Covenant.  I p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45803967">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I wasn't sure that I liked this novel.  I had a hard time with the idea that Thomas Covenant is the ultimate anti-hero, with none of the redeeming qualities of an average anti-hero.  He is a sniveling, irritating, coward who has to be prodded every step of the way.  The only thing that make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9493182">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Warning: Readers should not expect the main character to show up, draw a magic scimitar or lightsaber, and slice through the enemy. In this series, the bad guys are just part of Thomas Covenant's problem. He is also fighting enemies within himself. Be prepared to feel troubled over his plight and oc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8308062">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've often lamented that five-star rating systems, such as the one used by GoodReads, don't allow for ratings lower than one star.  Were it possible, I'd give this book negative stars; I think it actually sucks the quality away from books shelved near it, and generally makes the world a less joyful,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38098868">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Swedish friend told me I just had to read this series - it was like Tolkien but better. I borrowed the first three, and dutifully read them, waiting for the point to dawn. It never did. Tolkien, to me, is all about the language and the names, and Donaldson's names ranged between uninspired and dow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53110400">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Two years after my run in with the fallen nun and the c-word, I had a near run in with our new vice-principal (not the man, thankfully, who'd given me the strap), Mr. G---. <br/><br/>Our school was trying to teach us study skills before we reached high school, so we wouldn't waste our spare period...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18713443">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was much better than I thought it would be.  (I mean what would you think anything called Lord Foul's bane?  I imagine horrible period fantasy with a lot of dark halls and flagons of mead or something like a Renassance Faire gone wild--but it's not).  Another of the Alternate Reality sorts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11553275">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The problem with stories about really boring, self-absorbed jerks is that the books are pretty boring and self-absorbed as well. Thomas Covenant is a man from modern times with leprosy who is either (a) hallucinating/dreaming while in a coma or (b) transported to another universe where he has amazin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44234709">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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