Why I'm Disappointed in the Last Chronicles

[Orlion]

SRD does not write complete individual works... he writes complete Series. So yes, the first novel is set-up. Once you get the whole picture, the frame changes. I remember struggling through Lord Foul's Bane the first time I read it. Thought it was poorly written. After I finished the trilogy and came back to it, I could not put it down. It became a fantastic book. That is not lazy writing, that just means that you can not really judge a series of Donaldson's by just one or two books... they all exist together or not at all.

That is one of the issues with the Last Chronicles: we still do not know the whole story, but we will soon. Then you just have to deal with the other issue like "It's not the First Chronicles!" or "It's not how I would write it!" or "It has Linden in it!" In other words, a matter of taste.
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[rdhopeca]

Dunno....I didn't really care for TRS or FK but the last two and a half books of the Gap Series I literally stayed up all night to get them done...some of the most captivating and "must not put down" reading I've ever encountered....
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Rob

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