I agree. I took this up when I was in high school mumble mumble years ago and while I was fascinated with the sad, twisted bitterness of Covenant’s life as a leper in the real world, once he landed in the fantasy world I lost interest entirely. I keep thinking I should give it another try now that I’m an adult, but then I remember that as an adult I don’t much dig on the “dragons and dum-dums” (my mother’s phrase) genre. There are lots of other, better books out there I haven’t even tried once!

I keep wondering, though, if at some point Donaldson maybe did a nonfiction book about leprosy in the modern age? But that is probably from a dream or something.