Which well-reviewed authors do you find, well...boring?

[caseymoz]

13. Covenant was good for reasons other than the main character.

That was Donaldson's first book, he oddly enough, he never read fantasy before. He made a lot of mistakes. If were to write a character like Covenant, I think I would start him out when he begins to get heroic and somewhat virtuous, about midway through the 3rd book, and the reader only finds out about his felonies later. Although, it was a ballsy thing to do to have a protagonist as loathsome and ineffective as Covenant. It's a surprise the series ever became successful and it shows that it can be done.

That being said, I'm not even sure if Covenant is worst thing about the books. I think Donaldson's use of language is undeliberately comical in some parts.

Reviews all around are much better for Donaldson's subsequent works, whose protagonists are less odious. He seemed to have either learned his lesson or got it out of his system.

I don't find really any appeal in Ursula Le Guin. C.S. Lewis makes me snooze.