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Title: What's another word for Thesaurus?
Review: Apparently Donaldson made an important discovery between the writing of his first and second Thomas Covenant trilogies: The existence of Roget's. I consider myself of at least average intelligence, but Donaldson managed to use a staggering number of obscure words whose meaning I either had to look up in the dictionary, guess at, or ignore. Far from adding to the book, his style comes across as affected - a criticism I wouldn't have applied to the first trilogy.Technique aside, the plot of this book simply couldn't hold my attention. The ingredients were there--a vastly different Land, an impossible voyage, so-called wild magic, even a love interest--but they seem to be nothing more than a re-hash of the previous trilogy. It's unusual for me to say this, but once having started this new series, I do not believe I'll read the next volume.
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