SO correct. Dragonriders of Pern was probably the beginning series for many SF and fantasy readers. The Covenant series was a little more specific in it’s readership. You had to really want to read it to get through his verbosity. Great story but very long.
What made it so unbearingly long and boring was also the fact that Thomas Covenant was not the most sympathetic of main characters.
I had Dragonriders for a while before I knew there were more; that it was a series. I made a point of getting all the rest and have read them all several times.
Same with the Covenant trilogies.
I have a vivid imagination and can “see” and “hear” everything going on as I read. I enjoy spending time in the worlds authors create.
My favorite part of the Covenant trilogies was in the first one - - the Dance of the Wraiths. What a mental visual that is!