cedar_grove | What's That They Say That If Two People Tell You You're Sick? (Reply)

Blankly, Covenant stared into the pooled hurt of her eyes. He felt benumbed with pain and grief and wasted rage, and did not understand why she castigated herself... Stunned and Empty, he led her onward into the night until she had cried out her anguish and could stand on her own again. He wanted to weep himself, but in his long struggle with the misery of being a leper he had forgotten how, and now he could only keep on walking.Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson.

Hurray! I made it to page 237... okay so that's only just over half of the book, which is the first in a set of seven... but hey - it's further than I got the last time I tried to read it. You see... after about thirty pages of dealing with this man's depression/anger/bitterness etc about his lot in life, I start to get a little fed up with his constant whining, and that makes the job of wading through Donaldson's fluted language - albeit very literary - just that little too much to bear.

The premise is brilliant, and I really do wish I could finish it, but after having been stuck on the book for four months - reading another book while this one was unfinished - and not being able to face reading LFB because I wasn't enjoying it, I figured enough was enough. Put in a sticky page marker, and maybe come back to try and finish it at a later date.