Um, wow.

[zengar]

Edit: I just looked at the publication date, and found out that it is a re-release and was originally published in the early seventies. Why was anyone willing to touch a later series based off of this piece of drivel?

Original post retained because it's just as true of a reprint as it would have been of a new book.

I just read a new book by an acclaimed author who has been writing since before I was born. It was complete and utter garbage. I can't imagine why an agent or editor would be willing to let it be published, considering the damage it could do to the sales of the author's other books. If this was my first introduction to this author, I wouldn't ever have read any of the other books.

Plot, characters, descriptions, dialog, none of these was higher quality than what you would expect from some fourteen year old's fan-fiction. In fact, that is what it most closely resembled, an amateur dabbling in an established universe. And the main character was an unabashed Mary-Sue, whose only flaws were those that resulted from being perfect. Ferchristsake, he even lost an arm and ended up being able to do anything physical better than a two armed person could.