I found the story intriguing and very creative. The protagonist -- if you can even call Thomas Covenant that -- was entirely unexpected and I thought the premise of the character was fascinating.

That said, I did not enjoy the writing at all. I found it stilted to the point of obfuscating the story at times. It felt as if someone taught the author that he should use similes to make his prose more engaging, and he just took that and ran with it. It seemed like every sentence had a "like" or "as if" phrase attached to it, and many of them made very little sense to me. Clearly he wrote with a thesaurus next to him, but it wasn't a good one, because he often uses words in ways that don't actually fit their definition (including antiquated usages of those words). I never mind having to look up words I'm not familiar with, but when I find no definition that fits the context of the author's usage, I find that bewildering. This made it a lot less enjoyable to read.