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Lord Foul's Bane
by Stephen R. Donaldson
The book's unique premise and its bitter hero captured my initial interest. But once those were established, reading was a slog - I felt most of the book was the all-too-familiar "whisked-away-to-a-magical-land" plot, all full of overwrought plot devices and arbitrary encounters, and these didn't feel substantially affected by the book's unique elements.
I probably would have stopped reading mid-way, except that that's when I reached the rape scene. That caught my attention; that shook things up. Horribly, of course, but it seemed so terrible and momentous that surely from here on the book would take form around it, leading to something new and interesting.
Alas, I was sorely disappointed. I slogged through the entire volume, and for most of it, the rape seems practically ignored and forgotten. Even when it finally is addressed, the treatment is dull, inadequate, and entirely uninteresting. Hopes dashed. Alas.
I probably would have stopped reading mid-way, except that that's when I reached the rape scene. That caught my attention; that shook things up. Horribly, of course, but it seemed so terrible and momentous that surely from here on the book would take form around it, leading to something new and interesting.
Alas, I was sorely disappointed. I slogged through the entire volume, and for most of it, the rape seems practically ignored and forgotten. Even when it finally is addressed, the treatment is dull, inadequate, and entirely uninteresting. Hopes dashed. Alas.