Lord Foul's Bane

This is such a weird series. The prose is mediocre, the mechanics are trite and the plot is slow. But it is an amazing series that explores some unique ideas I've never seen addressed anywhere else, and it's worth reading at least once.

I am also a sucker for stories with epic histories and epic-sounding names, and “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever and White Gold Wielder” does it for me.