The Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson
Published 2004 · 533 pages · 146,575 words · about 10 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Runes of the Earth to read?
The Runes of the Earth scores 50 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.