response 1 of 15:

Aug 8 18:39 UTC 1991

I don't know these books.  What are they about?  (Why am I asking you this?
According to most of you, they're not worth reading.)
 
Griz

response 3 of 15:

Aug 8 20:57 UTC 1991

Liked 'em, read 'em. 
Think the guy writes okay.

response 5 of 15:

Aug 9 18:49 UTC 1991

I got the impression that he wrote the awful _Lord Foul's Bane_, got
started on _The Illearth War_, stopped halfway through, learned to
write, and came back.  After IW, all the books start getting better
and better.
_The Mirror Of Her Dreams_ and _A Man Rides Through_ are much better.

response 7 of 15:

Aug 13 06:27 UTC 1991

The first Covanent book was sent to me free by Ballentine because I used to 
publish a fanzine, and I considered that to be the first sign of a turkey.
The second sign came with the flip-open-at-random-and-try-reading test.
After that, I never paid much attention; life's too short, etc, and I'm 
biased against fantasy to begin with.
 
There has been reported to be a game in British fandom called "clench 
racing" in which each player takes a different volume of the Covenant books.
The judge calls out a list of obscure or archaic words like "clench", and
the contestants race to find the word in their texts.

response 9 of 15:

Aug 15 20:20 UTC 1991

read them years ago.  I vaguely remember finding them ok until I got bored with
them.  I only really remember liking the Giant character "Saltheart
Foamfollower:
  Seemed to me I either got bored, started to get disgusted with the 
women characters or both.

response 11 of 15:

Sep 17 16:41 UTC 1991

    I liked the 'Mordant's Need' series (thank you, mythago, for
saying they were better, as they were).  I found out, last night,
that a friend of mine empathized very much with the Thos. Covenant
character, and was hurt when I said why I didn't like them
(because the character is full of self-pity and unable to muster
enough self-esteem to do anything).  Said friend was in such a
mental state some years ago, though has since overcome it.  Seems
like the books need to be reconsidered (I thought the character
was kind of unrealistic, but I guess not).

response 13 of 15:

Dec 5 08:06 UTC 1992

I read them all, some more than once.  The realism of the character is
one matter, but the enjoyability of such a character is easy to lose.
The major attraction for me were the other characters.  Lords, giants
Bloodguard and all were great.  Covenant I found to be annoying an 
(that is to say an annoying) character much of the time.
On the other hand the Mordants Need books are some of the best I've 
ever read.  If you haven't read them I'll loan you mine (if I can
find them).

response 15 of 15:

May 22 11:01 UTC 2018

I've never read the Thomas Covenant books, but here a quarter century down
the road I thought everyone considered them classics. It's interesting to read
the mixed reviews from the dawn of time.