I cannot really answer this directly- what I can say is, as a really young man, I read it for the first time with a lot a lot of passion, and literally let things in the book affect me for days after reading them, to the point of feeling naseous afterwards (the rape of Lena in the first book and her...

I was 19 years old, 3500 miles from home in Germany, on weekend guard duty in the motor pool. There was this book in the bunk house (where we were required to remain when not out on post) called the Wounded Land (yes, I read the first book of the second chronciles first). I became so captivated by t...