Also, as the above avowed Linden hater has said, don't assume Lytton actually knows anything about medicine. Of course, it's quite possible that he could know a little bit more than we give him credit for. After all, we still don't know exactly how leprosy is transmitted. Someone who was as afraid ...

Sorry -- TL;DR is message-board shorthand for "too long, didn't read." I'm painfully aware of my own tendency toward gasbagginess :-). Since 1st Chronicles were written in the early 70s, your complaint that leprosy has been curable for "decades" doesn't really hold up. Also, I be...

I was dimly aware that Donaldson was at work on a new set of Covenant books, but didn't manage to beam in until a few weeks ago when I got both ROTE and Fatal Revenant from the library. I've just finished reading them back-to-back. ROTE was, in short, a real slog. I appreciate that this novel is mai...