A review by x0pherl
Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson

Did not finish book.

Had to put this one aside in spite of my general difficulties stopping a book midway through.
Three reasons:
1) The descriptions of leprosy may or may not have been entirely accurate and unexaggerated for 1977 when the book was written. I'm not sure, but I had a super hard time reading through these parts and accepting them as true. Maybe if it was set in 1877?
2) The language could almost be a spoof of swords and sorcery books:

he creature leaped to his feet, capering with mad pride. He strode closer to his victim, and Covenant recoiled with a loathing he could not control.
Holding his staff near the center with both hands, the creature shouted, “Kill you! Take your power! Crush them all! Be Lord Drool!” He raised his staff as if to strike Covenant with it.
Then another voice entered the cavern. It was deep and resonant, powerful enough to fill the air without effort, and somehow deadly, as if an abyss were speaking. “Back, Rockworm!” it commanded. “This prey is too great for you. I claim him.”
The creature jabbed his face toward the ceiling and cried, “Mine! My Staff! You saw. I called him. You saw!”
Covenant followed the red eyes upward, but he could see nothing there except the dizzy chiaroscuro of the clustered stone spikes.

3) The rape scene was what finally made me put the book down. I get that he's an antihero and I'm not supposed to like him. I can even accept that this was told in a different cultural context. If the rest of the book had been good I might have even dealt with it and continued on, but.. nope.

As always, giving it one star rather than having people think I failed to rate it.