From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!dann
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: White Gold Wielder (Mild spoiler warning)
Article-I.D.: wxlvax.110
Posted: Wed Apr  6 12:53:30 1983
Received: Thu Apr  7 02:55:47 1983
References: rabbit.1298


Thoughts about White Gold Wielder


After finishing WGW, my primary impression was that 
WGW is yet another The Power that Preserves, but not as well done.

My basic impression was that, so what, in three thousand years, Linden
Avery is going to have to go back to the LAND and do it AGAIN.  

Lord Foul was diminished but not banished again. (Does this surprise
anyone?)  I think Donaldson got tired and couldn't think of a decent 
ending so he wrote a slick and simple copout ending.  

It seems so futile.  In the first trilogy, Covenant went through all this
anguish, etc, and three thousand years later, *everything* is gone.
No wards left by the Lords, nothing.  It's hard to believe that no Lords
equivalent to Kevin's talent arose in the course of those three thousand 
years.  



If Donaldson had wanted to write a new trilogy, I wish he had taken the 
time to think up a new mythos, and leave the land alone.


In terms of the plot, it seemed to be just another case of "We're on 
a quest, so let's spend the entire book traveling and getting attacked
by grues."  

The writing style, as usual, is horrendously overwritten and loses 
effectiveness due to it.




						   Grouse, grouse,

							 dann