Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!mangoe
From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Chron. of Thomas Covenant
Message-ID: <2700@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 18:32:06 EST
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2700
Posted: Fri Jan 25 18:32:06 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 30-Jan-85 05:18:57 EST
References: <366@aicchi.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
Lines: 11
Summary: A negative review

While I have read most of the T.C. books, in retrospect I wonder how I ever
did it.  Donaldson's writing style is, for me, hard to swallow, and the books
seem to me to be grossly overwritten.  Among friends of mine, the line

     "The horses were virtually prostrate upon their feet"

has acquired almost a mythological flavor; I must say that I find the notion
of hoofless horses being virtually standing while at the same time lying on
the ground to be mildly amusing, even if it isn't a model of good metaphor.

Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe